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 ...

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 ...

Alumna Linda (La Kretz ‘77) Duttenhaver and her late father, Morton La Kretz, have made a major new gift to UC Santa Barbara to help establish a community hub for translating environmental research ...

Nitrogen is one of life’s building blocks, but it’s only helpful in the right amounts. Too much nitrogen in water, for example, can lead to poor water quality and the gradual death of aquatic ...

Imagine you’re an infant. Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity — you’re pretty helpless and fully reliant on the people around you. As a result, one of your ...

What do the Tsimané of lowland Bolivia have in common with the Hadza of Tanzania? Aside from their mostly nonindustrial lifestyles and the ocean between them for millennia, the two populations have ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

Through the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) program, several UC Santa Barbara researchers are poised to tackle hurdles on the road to building widespread, ...

For innovations with lasting impacts on society and for his influence on generations of inventors and entrepreneurs, UC Santa Barbara professor John Bowers, a pioneer in silicon photonics, received ...

As humanitarian crises and climate change intensify, a special issue of Amerasia Journal asks readers to rethink a familiar word: refuge. Co-edited by Heidi Amin-Hong, assistant professor of English ...

Teaching professor Tim Dewar earned his Ph.D. in education, language, literacy, and composition from the Gevirtz School in 2008. His scholarship focuses on English education, with interests in the ...

Among the central goals in experimental quantum and materials sciences is to witness, study and eventually control interactions between atomic and subatomic particles. Though rapid and fleeting, these ...