While short-term inflammation is essential to healing infections, chronic inflammation is known to damage organs and accelerate chronic diseases of aging.

A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) award will support UC Santa Barbara researchers in developing the next generation of cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data. Leading the effort is B. S ...

UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division has launched a new award to spotlight the vital contributions of postdoctoral scholars, celebrating their excellence in mentorship and leadership. In its inaugural ...

Students, faculty, staff and community members can help choose the title for UCSB Reads 2026, the 20th edition of the university's award-winning common book program.

William Nomikos researches how identity and domestic politics shape international intervention using a mix of computational, experimental, econometric, and field methods. His first book, "Local Peace, ...

Electron-phonon interactions — collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material — are considered the primary cause of electrons slowing ...

Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck revisits The Hapa Project, exploring 25 years of mixed Asian Pacific Islander identity through portraits and personal stories.

Madeleine Gross is a leading researcher in the psychology of curiosity, creativity, and personality development. Her work—featured in popular media outlets like The New York Times, Psyche and Closer ...

A pioneering program designed to uplift and empower social science students reached a new milestone with the graduation of the inaugural class of PROPEL scholars at UC Santa Barbara.

Postdoctoral fellow Anindya Ganguly has earned an Early Career Research Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a part of the National Institutes of ...

Artist Kip Fulbeck has exhibited and performed in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S., and has been featured on CNN, MTV, The TODAY Show, The New York Times, Voice of America, and numerous NPR ...