What we call ourselves — and what others call us — has been at the heart of Kip Fulbeck’s art for more than two decades. Twenty-five years ago, Fulbeck asked hundreds of multiracial Asian and Pacific ...

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 ...

The sun came out, and so did the stars. And by stars we mean the thousands of new UC Santa Barbara graduates who crossed the commencement stage, capping off another academic year. But also: ...

UCSB’s 2025 Propel Scholars include, from left, (with Director Bryan Zuniga in center): Ingrid Nathanael Lopez Higuera, Joana Perez, Josephine Barton, Jam Miranda, Veronica Acevedo, Bryan Zuniga ...

As the manager of the campus lagoon and other open space areas on campus, Lisa Stratton has been active in pursuing opportunities to restore native habitat, improve water quality, and support ...

According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This usually means that the so-called “force” of ...

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 ...

It’s an idea that has finally gained scientific consensus: Dogs can be a faster, more precise, less expensive — not to mention friendlier — method of detecting COVID-19 than even our best current ...

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the ...

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 ...

A federal multibillion-dollar effort that subsidized internet service providers to bring broadband to underserved areas has provided much-needed high-speed internet to some of the country’s remote and ...