Ideas to reduce carbon emissions often revolve around renewable power, electric vehicles and energy efficiency. But there’s another, less colorful character that’s often overlooked: cement. “Cement ...

Jia-Ching Chen's interests are in China's role in shaping the global green economy and the spread of Chinese planning expertise through its international development activities. He also has ...

In times of robust civil discourse and related divisiveness, a person’s capacity to hold opposing points of view simultaneously may help them sort noise from news. But where does that tolerance for ...

Jia-Ching Chen, an assistant professor of global studies at UC Santa Barbara, will spend the 2026–27 academic year in Taiwan on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study the geopolitical intersections ...

Thanks to a new nonprofit — the Electrochemistry Foundry (ECF) — and construction begun under its auspices, UC Santa Barbara is poised to join a group of collaborating partners in a new era of battery ...

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (COE) at UC Santa Barbara will launch the university’s first fully online master’s degree program, an expansion of UCSB’s engineering curriculum designed ...

Stephen Sondheim had his ladies who lunch. Melinda Lopez has her students who stretch. Her new play “Standing Still” is set in a yoga studio, and features a group of people who come together for a ...

Culminating the latest season of UCSB Reads, bestselling author and Grammy-nominated musician Michelle Zauner, of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, shares the story behind her memoir “Crying in H ...

Sonia came to science writing after working many years as a journalist. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in English, she’s thrilled to be writing for her alma mater and working with the ...

Diane Fujino, a professor of Asian American studies, is featured in the new PBS documentary “Of the People: Women in the Civil Right Movement,” discussing her research and writing about the life of ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Of ...

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 ...