Continuing the partnership that’s been successful for several years running, UC Santa Barbara is again partnering with students, local agencies and the community to develop rules, regulations, safety ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

As every artist knows, one way to catch a viewer’s eye is a jarring juxtaposition. Take the original poster for Stephen Sondheim’s 1976 musical “Pacific Overtures,” currently on display at the UC ...

Paul Leonardi’s research, teaching and consulting focus on helping companies to create and share knowledge more effectively. He is interested in how implementing new technologies and harnessing the ...

Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

Have you ever come back from a blissful, disconnected vacation — swearing that you would bring this new, low-tech approach back to your daily life — and a few days later, felt as if the stream of ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

A new research facility at UC Santa Barbara is set to transform the pace and scope of biotechnology. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), supported by a ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

Cranial surgery is tricky business, even under 21st-century conditions (think aseptic environment, specialized surgical instruments and copious amounts of pain medication both during and afterward).