In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

One recent evening, a group of fourth-year engineering students at UC Santa Barbara gathered on campus to meet with Kelsey Judd, an alum who is now a program manager at the Santa Barbara office of ...

November 20, 2025 Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart” named UCSB Reads 2026 book November 20, 2025 Star panel to discuss moviegoing in an evolving marketplace Photo Credit courtesy Transdisciplinary ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a debilitating hereditary condition in which fluid-filled sacs form and proliferate in the kidneys. Over time, the painful, growing cysts rob the organs of their ...

You know that assignment, message or email you keep avoiding — the one that lingers in the back of your mind even as you scroll, tidy or “just check one more thing”? New research from UC Santa Barbara ...

Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim. The theoretician, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was recently awarded the American ...

Known for his media-blending esoteric artwork, Deniz Çağlarcan has won the PRIX CIME 2025 International Electroacoustic Music Competition. “Being selected for the residency is very meaningful to me,” ...

The University of California Board of Regents approved the acquisition of an off-campus property to serve as the residence for the current and future chancellors of UC Santa Barbara to enable them to ...

As religion declines in the United States, where are people turning for meaning and purpose? A UC Santa Barbara professor is looking for answers. Religious studies associate professor Joseph Blankholm ...

“Language is a living pattern — something we shape, observe and share.” That idea guides the creative practice of artist and UC Santa Barbara assistant teaching professor Iman Djouini — and it will ...

Depending upon your political persuasion, the word “farce” describes either the current presidential administration, the previous one, or both. Reassurances by smiling aides that everything is under ...

For its 20th anniversary year, UCSB Reads, the campus’s award-winning common book program, has selected Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart,” a provocative book about identity, food, grief and culture ...