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 ...

A panel of tribal authorities, legal experts and scholars will discuss “Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment,” hosted by UC Santa Barbara’s Walter H. Capps Center ...

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 ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can and cannot be Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible ...

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 ...

Carbohydrate is a familiar term. It’s the bagel you had for breakfast, the bread in your sandwich, the slice of cake you’re thinking about sneaking later today. But carbs aren’t only in baked goods, ...

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 ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and economic security. They’re ubiquitous in our smart technologies, high ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...