For the 21st edition of UC Santa Barbara’s award-winning common book program, the campus has selected a timely and provocative exploration of modern tech economics, corporate accountability and the ...

As analysts combed through the results of the 2024 election, something striking caught their attention. They were expecting a significant gender gap, with more women voting Democratic and more men ...

Perched upon the Pacific Coast in sunny Goleta, UC Santa Barbara has an enviable campus that provides a unique suite of opportunities to the community, including dorm-side surfing, on-site marine ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a method for predicting the likelihood of low birthweights in West Africa, based on climate and socioeconomic data. Their model, when incorporated into ...

As artificial intelligence and advanced computing grow more powerful, so does the energy required to run them. UC Santa Barbara researchers are tackling this challenge from several directions, such as ...

A self-described culinary multitasker, Evan Kleiman has been a chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and today is known most readily as a longtime podcaster and KCRW radio host of “Good Food.” Her ...

We are all familiar with the feeling of “Aha!” that accompanies the sudden realization of our next big ideas. Notably, these insights arrive with a peculiar sense of authority — you don’t just know; ...

Gallium nitride has made highly efficient blue LEDs possible. Getting the same semiconductor to produce red light efficiently has proved much more difficult. UC Santa Barbara researchers have now ...

About 10 minutes into the new documentary about the late Walter Capps, the storyline hits a stride in step with what many scholars and former students consider his most revered work as a professor of ...

When it comes to AI, two’s company, but three — or more — can be a much harder problem. Many current approaches to AI in science model interactions in pairs, according to UC Santa Barbara’s Nina ...

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a major grant to UC Santa Barbara to establish infrastructure for the field of South Asian American studies in the form of a nationally facing interdisciplinary ...

A new study has found that adaptive molecular convergence — the process by which distantly or unrelated species evolve the same genomic changes — is not as rare as previously thought. Reconstructing ...