For preserving and sharing its rich heritage, Vensa Wallace received Mongolia’s Order of the Polar Star, the country’s highest honor for foreign civilians. Vensa is a world-renowned scholar of ...

Anxiety is high over this year’s El Niño. It’s breaking records, and hasn’t even peaked. So how does El Niño work? What might Southern Californians expect? And how can we prepare for a potentially ...

Hundreds of people in the United States die every day from thromboses — a blood clot of a vein or artery. In many cases, blood clots are a normal part of healing. But these coagulated masses of blood ...

Elephants shape the African savanna. They consume huge amounts of forage, dig for water, topple trees and undoubtedly affect all the animals around them. So, what happens to their outsized presence ...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the academic landscape, UC Santa Barbara is providing the tools and training to navigate the technology's far-reaching significance. With recent campuswide rollouts ...

In recent years, scholars and artists have offered new looks at some old villains: The monstrous female figures of myths, legends and fairy tales. “Wicked” gives us a sympathetic view of the Wicked ...

As humanitarian crises and climate change intensify, a special issue of Amerasia Journal asks readers to rethink a familiar word: refuge. Co-edited by Heidi Amin-Hong, assistant professor of English ...

Imagine you’re an infant. Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity — you’re pretty helpless and fully reliant on the people around you. As a result, one of your ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

A yearlong archival project by students in Santa Barbara junior high and high schools culminated over the summer with “Finding Fiesta,” an exhibit exploring the diverse communities and current events ...

Among the central goals in experimental quantum and materials sciences is to witness, study and eventually control interactions between atomic and subatomic particles. Though rapid and fleeting, these ...

In partnership with UCSB and Cal Poly, the Central Coast REACH (Regional Economic Action Coalition) has launched the Space Vandenberg Innovation Fund to support development, commercialization and ...