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 ...

Jenn Caselle's research is broadly focused on Marine Conservation and reef ecology. She currently works in both coral reef and kelp forest ecosystems studying community dynamics, recruitment and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem. Researchers at UC Santa ...

The origin of life from Earth’s primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

We need to reduce consumption: That was one of the strongest recommendations to come out of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report on climate change (AR6). “Reducing ...

Jenni Sorkin, professor and chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of History of Art and Architecture, has received a prestigious Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. The award supports ...

As artificial intelligence rapidly permeates the modern world, questions surrounding its merits — Is AI true, accurate and creative? — remain at the center of ongoing debate. “Right now, so many of us ...

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 ...