Three distinguished UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Oceanographer Alice L. Alldredge, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten and engineer Henry T.

For the first time in the journal’s history, a UC Santa Barbara professor sits at the helm of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, a flagship publication and the most widely read outside the discipline.

Could the next big antibiotic or cancer therapy be found on the nearest coral reef? Researchers have found that reefs are home to a vast array of previously unknown bioactive metabolites — small ...

Gen Li studies the processes that cycle materials and elements in the Earth system and how these make Earth a habitable planet. His research combines laboratory experiments, fieldwork, theory, ...

Javier Read de Alaniz's research group seeks creative, synthetic solutions to problems at the interface of chemistry and material science. Just as traditional organic chemistry invents new reaction ...

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet’s ...

When it comes to raising children in the digital age, one of the worst things a parent can do is give their kid a smartphone and hope for the best. Turns out, same goes for the grownups. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people say they’d like to change aspects of their personality — to be more outgoing, more patient, or more emotionally resilient. But can traits like these really change? Recent research suggests ...

Haewon Jeong, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, experienced a pivotal moment in her academic career when she was a postdoctoral fellow ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.