Now open for research, the collection provides scholars, students and community members with a rich resource for studying Chicano literature, grassroots activism and social movements

Three UC Santa Barbara faculty members have received honors this year from the American Geophysical Union, the country’s preeminent earth science professional organization.

A pioneer in silicon photonics and founding director of UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency, he received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural UC Regents Innovation Awards

The benefits of the popular social, spiritual and wellness practice of giving thanks vary with cultural context

Lundberg's Mincer Award for lifetime achievement in economics scholarship comes as her newest book, “How Economics Discovered Women” hits the shelves.

When it comes to UCSB fall arts, there's something for everyone — and most of the exhibitions, screenings and performances are free.

UCSB classicist and “Dollyologist” Helen Morales explains Dolly Parton’s radical empathy, cultural reach and enduring appeal across divides.

Stokes has published a new book, “The Carbon Wave,” about her work on the Inflation Reduction Act, which at the time was viewed as the most consequential piece of environmental legislation in decades

New study adds nuance to our understanding of dementia in the Tsimané and Mosetén of lowland Bolivia

Computer scientist Arpit Gupta and vision scientist Miguel Eckstein will discuss AI as a research tool during UCSB Library's "AI in Action" public speaker event on Sept. 29.

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Researchers find that AI-enabled tools can help deaf and hard of hearing workers achieve the same level of performance as their normally-abled colleagues

A new collaboration between researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into one of the most computationally demanding frontiers in modern physics.

Six UCSB junior faculty members selected to receive 2026 NSF CAREER awards

The Kenneth Robert Lincoln Indigenous Environmental Projects Fund will support students in UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Leadership Incubator

Anthropologist Kathrine Starkweather demonstrates that even when mothers can keep their babies nearby, work itself can make exclusive breastfeeding difficult.

Scientists in the U.S. and China urge the UN to mandate global reporting in its upcoming plastics treaty. They system they propose will inform a workshop in Geneva, Switzerland in mid-September.

UCSB soil scientist Iris Holzer will help lead the team updating the IPCC greenhouse gas accounting guidelines.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPS, a dark matter candidate — but researchers will need more data to confirm

Paasha Mahdavi discusses the energy ramifications of the war in Iran, including how circumstances have aligned, why countries are digging in their heels, and what solutions are actually working.

In a new paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, a UCSB-led team gets to the heart of an enduring question: are you your brain or your body? Their answer points to what happens between them.

Researchers at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis develop a set of practice guidelines for environmental data scientists who use generative AI

UCSB Library's acquisition of the entire AM suite digital collection bodes well for researchers who rely on primary source material

A stronger El Niño will amplify this natural cycle's capacity for disruption and destruction.

UCSB classicist and “Dollyologist” Helen Morales explains Dolly Parton’s radical empathy, cultural reach and enduring appeal across divides.

Researchers find that triggering a stress response in glioblastoma cells with light stops them from spreading — a development that could point the way for treatments for the hard-to-reach brain tumors

Researchers at UCSB and UT Austin describe the violent event that have shot a super-massive black hole into intergalactic space.

Renowned economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 20...

With more than 4,000 square feet of space, Protofab enables users to package their chips and turn them into prototypes — a step long considered a bottleneck in research and development.

Researchers at UCSB and UT Austin describe the violent event that have shot a super-massive black hole into intergalactic space.

A short-term climatic shift increased precipitation over East Antarctica between 2021 and 2023, adding enough snow to temporarily balance ice loss from climate change at the continent’s edges.

It's back to school in Santa Barbara, and UCSB's TEP graduate students are helping out in local K-12 classrooms as teachers and students kick off the new year.

Researchers link wildfires in California’s coastal watersheds to the water quality at the beach

An ongoing digitization project preserves UCSB Library's vast archive of aerial photographs.

Land restitution can help redress dispossession and support Indigenous self-determination, but realizing many environmental benefits will require complementary policies.

Fossil shark scales from Panama reveal that its two coasts never had the same number of sharks. The findings mean that it would be a huge mistake to apply conservation targets across the isthmus.

Researchers uncover a neural circuit that may explain paradoxical kinesia, in which people with Parkinson's Disease can smoothly execute complex actions despite the impairment of their motor circuits