What does it take to make sense of a world perpetually transformed by political, cultural and technological realignment? Renowned journalist and political thinker Fareed Zakaria tackles that question ...

When artists turn memory into inquiry, they reveal how family, migration and history continue to shape our world. At UC Santa Barbara, lecturer Kim Garcia bridges her roles as artist and educator to ...

Contemporary dance takes center stage at UC Santa Barbara this month as Santa Barbara Dance Theater (SBDT) premieres FORUM, a new work inspired by collaboration and creative research. Returning to the ...

A new research facility at UC Santa Barbara is set to transform the pace and scope of biotechnology. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), supported by a ...

Michel Devoret studies experimental condensed matter physics, particularly “quantronics” — the study of mesoscopic electronic systems where the collective degrees of freedom, such as currents and ...

Megafires, minority politics and Indigenous wisdom are among wide-ranging yet intertwined topics highlighting an annual speaker series curated and hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center ...

In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment — the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells — ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...

It was rave reviews all around from UC Santa Barbara students at the campus’s inaugural Gaucho Welcome rally, which kicked off the new academic year with booming music, spirited cheerleaders and ...

Mona Damluji received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Architecture and has worked as a freelance producer and editing assistant for independent documentary filmmakers and ...