Postdoctoral fellow Anindya Ganguly has earned an Early Career Research Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a part of the National Institutes of ...

The sun came out, and so did the stars. And by stars we mean the thousands of new UC Santa Barbara graduates who crossed the commencement stage, capping off another academic year. But also: ...

Madeleine Gross is a leading researcher in the psychology of curiosity, creativity, and personality development. Her work—featured in popular media outlets like The New York Times, Psyche and Closer ...

A pioneering program designed to uplift and empower social science students reached a new milestone with the graduation of the inaugural class of PROPEL scholars at UC Santa Barbara. The PROPEL ...

As the manager of the campus lagoon and other open space areas on campus, Lisa Stratton has been active in pursuing opportunities to restore native habitat, improve water quality, and support ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Griffith University in Australia identify origin and purpose of the facial expression for anger The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See the ...

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years. But an exhaustive ...

The arrival and rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccines has sparked numerous questions about how they work and about their safety and efficacy. In an hourlong virtual discussion and Q&A session, a ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer In a leap forward for quantum computing, a ...

In work conducted at both UC Santa Barbara and the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden, biophysicist Otger Campàs and his research group have found that cell nuclei control the ...