Jim Casey's research and teaching begin with nineteenth-century Black print culture, literature, and political organizing and extend into the areas of public humanities, digital humanities, archives, ...

Selected from a global field of composers whose work is shaping the future of contemporary music, UC Santa Barbara professor and Corwin Chair of Composition João Pedro Oliveira has received a 2025 ...

Sung Soo Kim is interested in understanding the brain-wide, multi-sensory information processing and integration that underlie the ability to get one's bearings in a room they've never seen before. To ...

Leander Anderegg's research seeks to scale up the physiological responses of plants to biotic and abiotic stress to explain population level, community level and biogeographic processes. His work asks ...

Brenda Major's research addresses how people cope with prejudice, discrimination, devalued social identities, and stressful life events. She is particularly interested in psychological resilience and ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Griffith University in Australia identify origin and purpose of the facial expression for anger The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See the ...

Three decades ago, UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik first started studying a Colombian family afflicted with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He and fellow ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

It remains an open question when a commercial quantum computer will emerge that can outperform classical (non-quantum) machines in speed and energy efficiency while solving real-world combinatorial ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can and cannot be Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible ...

Benjamin Cohen begins his new book — his 20 th, if you are counting — with a fictional news dispatch from the year 2035. “After years of festering discontent with the direction of politics in ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...