The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

Rae Wynn-Grant received her BS in Environmental Studies from Emory University, her Master of Environmental Science from Yale University, and her PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have for the first time observed Goldstone modes — elusive, charge-neutral quasiparticles — in a twisted tungsten diselenide superlattice. Using an ultrafast imaging ...

Team UCSB-WA (left to right): coach Wesley Hung ‘24 (CoE Computer Science), Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ‘28 (CCS Computing, Mathematics), Om Mahesh ‘28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science) and David Qiao ...

In times of robust civil discourse and related divisiveness, a person’s capacity to hold opposing points of view simultaneously may help them sort noise from news. But where does that tolerance for ...

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (COE) at UC Santa Barbara will launch the university’s first fully online master’s degree program, an expansion of UCSB’s engineering curriculum designed ...

Stephen Sondheim had his ladies who lunch. Melinda Lopez has her students who stretch. Her new play “Standing Still” is set in a yoga studio, and features a group of people who come together for a ...

Insights from a recently held global collaboration workshop on fatal whale-vessel strikes are poised to strengthen protections for the magnificent creatures around the world. Co-hosted by UC Santa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jia-Ching Chen, an assistant professor of global studies at UC Santa Barbara, will spend the 2026–27 academic year in Taiwan on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study the geopolitical intersections ...

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 ...