For the first time, a land manager in Oregon, a county planner in California or a federal agency in Alaska can look up a single number — the Wildfire Resilience Index (WRI) score — for any community, ...

Jia-Ching Chen's interests are in China's role in shaping the global green economy and the spread of Chinese planning expertise through its international development activities. He also has ...

For prospective transfer students, the route to UC Santa Barbara is as wide-ranging, varied and, in many cases, non-traditional as the students themselves. And now, to that point, a new education ...

Culminating the latest season of UCSB Reads, bestselling author and Grammy-nominated musician Michelle Zauner, of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, shares the story behind her memoir “Crying in H ...

Thanks to a new nonprofit — the Electrochemistry Foundry (ECF) — and construction begun under its auspices, UC Santa Barbara is poised to join a group of collaborating partners in a new era of battery ...

Diane Fujino, a professor of Asian American studies, is featured in the new PBS documentary “Of the People: Women in the Civil Right Movement,” discussing her research and writing about the life of ...

You’ve probably seen them: Glossy black, mid-sized birds with bright yellow eyes and a brazen attitude. They’re grackles, and they live where humans like to be, hoping for handouts, picking through ...

Could the next big antibiotic or cancer therapy be found on the nearest coral reef? Researchers have found that reefs are home to a vast array of previously unknown bioactive metabolites — small ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been named among the Ecological Society of America’s 2026 fellows. The organization has honored Professor Deron Burkepile as a ...

Welcome to UC Santa Barbara’s REEF, where the starfish are sassy, the urchins are ornery, the sharks act like sea puppies and if you kiss a sea cucumber, you’re in for some good luck (allegedly).

William Shakespeare’s plays transcended their origins almost immediately. Even during his lifetime, his unforgettable characters and indelible lines were already escaping the stage, taken up by others ...