Researchers tease apart the role of behavioral flexibility in great-tailed grackles' ability to flourish in human-made environments ...

Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural activities and climate resilience.

Distinguished Professor Chris Van de Walle of UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Department has received the 2025 Heinrich Welker Award in recognition of his “development and application of computational ...

UC Santa Barbara assistant professor Yang Yang has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a first for a UCSB faculty member.

Seeking to support Santa Barbara area high school students interested in applying to any University of California campus, the admissions team at UC Santa Barbara is hosting free community workshops to ...

Joseph Polchinski moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1992, where he was a Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Polchinski's contributions to ...

Jenny Dugan studies basic questions concerning the influence of environmental and anthropogenic drivers on community and population dynamics of marine animals across a diversity of shorelines, ...

As the planet continues to warm, the twin challenges of diminishing water supply and growing energy demand will intensify. But water and energy are inextricably linked. For instance, nearly a fifth of ...

UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized the papers of celebrated physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018), creating a comprehensive online archive that offers unparalleled access to ...

Driven to improve and safeguard the health of our oceans through science and technology, Marc and Lynne Benioff have made a gift of $60 million to UC Santa Barbara, one of the world’s most important ...

While global socioeconomic trends dominate how land use affects ecosystems, being strategic about how we abandon and expand agricultural land can protect habitat, biodiversity and carbon sinks.

A team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) investigated this previously neglected area of oceanography for signs of an overlooked global cycle. They also ...