When Thuc-Quyen Nguyen learned she had been selected as UC Santa Barbara’s next Faculty Research Lecturer, she felt what she describes as surprise, happiness and deep honor. The award, established in ...

Quasars are among the brightest, most energetic objects in the universe, powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of galaxies. Their extreme luminosity makes them visible ...

Baltimore native Terrell Winder graduated from Columbia University before heading to UCLA for grad school. Right away he picked up on the differences between his historically Black hometown upbringing ...

UC Santa Barbara has been named the first-ever university recipient of the 2026 Zero Trust Champion Award at the Zscaler Public Sector Summit. The award recognizes organizations that are fundamentally ...

The courtyard of Bren Hall was packed to the gills Friday morning with jubilant grads and their families, friends and faculty. The ceremony was scored with numbers like “Wide Open Spaces” and “Have ...

A study conducted by UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators has found that California has lost more than half of its coastal dune systems. The researchers’ assessment — the first of its kind ...

A new age of 3D printing is here, even though the initial technology for what is also known as additive manufacturing arrived less than 20 years ago. UC Santa Barbara is stepping into the era with a ...

More than 600 students in the UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division crossed the commencement stage on the afternoon of June 11 to collect their diplomas. The 290 doctoral candidates and 333 master’s ...

The smiles say it all. As do the tears. Pride, elation, excitement, relief. All the feels, and then some, were on display during UC Santa Barbara's annual commencement festivities, which for 2026 ...

“The mind is what the brain does,” as the pioneering artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky once said. So it’d be fantastic to understand at what level of anatomy, or complexity, the brain ...

Breakbone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. About half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic. But for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, even ...

With Commencement officially underway, UC Santa Barbara has announced the newest recipients of its most prestigious student honors, awarded for scholastic achievement, extraordinary service and ...