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.

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 ...

Metatext: In his latest book, UCSB scholar Benjamin Cohen examines the global and domestic pressures that could push countries, including the U.S., toward breakup.

Professor Cohen's publications have addressed issues of international monetary relations, U.S. foreign economic policy, currency integration, sovereign debt, theories of economic imperialism, and the ...

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

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler developed a curiosity-focused app that helps users build curiosity through small daily actions — offering new insight into how ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

A warming atmosphere will soaking up moisture faster than it can be replaced by rising precipitation rates, exacerbating droughts even in places where rainfall remains constant.

There’s no sugar coating to the film, nor a succinct lesson at the end. But it’s important medicine at a time when public health and environmental safeguards are under attack.

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

Prior efforts to develop hardware for optimization problems have involved Ising machines, a category of hardware solvers that incorporate the Ising model to find the absolute or approximate “ground ...

Jason Turowetz's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of multiple areas, including social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity ...