The UC Board of Regents has approved the scope, design and budget for UC Santa Barbara’s East Campus Student Housing Project, which will provide 1,688 beds (412 replacement beds and 1,276 new beds) on ...

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,” ...

Michael Miller is interested in the psychological and neural processes underlying human memory and decision-making. His research employs a variety of techniques, including functional magnetic ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Blankholm's research focuses on the variety among the nonreligious, including atheism and spirituality. His first book, The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, was ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in 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 ...

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green lifeforms. But how plants budget this resource varies considerably. The kapok trees of the Amazon ...

It’s 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of marine protected areas ...

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 ...