UC Santa Barbara professor Dorit Hanein, a leading expert in cellular tomography — a technique that allows researchers to see the inside of a cell in three dimensions with remarkable detail — has been ...

In recognition of Henry T. Yang’s 31 years of service as UC Santa Barbara's fifth chancellor, Mesa Road has been renamed in Yang's honor. Signage for Henry T. Yang Drive will be installed before the ...

Chetan Nayak has made significant contributions to the theory of topological phases, high-temperature superconductivity, ‘strange metals’, the effects of impurities on electronic behavior, the quantum ...

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Studies Program in 1994, Keith pursued a career in journalism, initially writing for The Channels at Santa Barbara City College. He then worked ...

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 ...

Novel therapeutics for lethal, chronic diseases. Containment of a particularly aggressive brain cancer. Technology that helps to determine the habitability of Europa. Imaging techniques to uncover ...

From Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnight, video games have always been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder ...

Using reprogrammed biocatalysts, researchers are pushing the boundaries of enzymatic synthesis with a method that opens the door to a diverse array of valuable compounds. Reporting in the journal ...

The environment provides a wide range of services that benefit us all: purifying water, buffering floods, pollinating crops, renewing soil and many more. These aren’t just benefits; society wouldn't ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed funding for BioPACIFIC MIP — the Biomaterials, Polymers and Advanced Constructs from Integrated Chemistry Materials Innovation Platform — a ...

Robin Matoza uses seismic and infrasonic waves to understand Earth processes, with applications primarily in volcanology. Infrasound is atmospheric sound with frequencies below 20 hertz, which is the ...

Under the sunset at UC Santa Barbara, Naked Shakes will stage Shakespeare’s mystical ‘The Tempest’ as both performance and milestone, marking the company’s 20th anniversary. Artistic director Irwin ...