The Department of Art is hosting weekly talks with a diversity of guest artists, campus faculty and distinguished alumni. Free and open to the public, the Visiting Artist Colloquium runs through early ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Counting one’s blessings. Journaling. Saying a prayer. Writing a letter of appreciation. We can all intuit that practicing gratitude has positive effects on our lives — generally improving our outlook ...

And away we go. A new academic year at UC Santa Barbara is officially underway, and it's giving all that good Gaucho energy. Classes begin today, but the campus has been buzzing over the last week — ...

Far and wide on campus at UC Santa Barbara this fall, the arts have arrived across a spectrum of sights, sounds and movement. From Romeo and Juliet to metaphysical spirituality. From the creative art ...

Economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, a distinguished professor and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has won the 2026 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor ...

Shelly Lundberg's research is focused in Labor Economics and the Economics of the Family, and includes both theoretical modeling (of discrimination and inequality and of family decision-making) and ...

All nominees and recipients will be honored during the Student Affairs Spring Divisional Meeting on Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Corwin Pavilion. News Bites September 22, 2026 UC ...

The 1990s produced a lot of bad ideas, from grunge fashion to New Coke. But there’s one Leah Stokes particularly dislikes: the notion of a “carbon footprint.” You remember that one. To protect the ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ...