Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural activities and climate resilience.

Distinguished Professor Chris Van de Walle of UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Department has received the 2025 Heinrich Welker Award in recognition of his “development and application of computational ...

Plastic waste travels from inland communities to the ocean through rivers, but new research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory shows how to stop it at the source. Spanning eight ...

For “Beyond the Classroom: Special Research Collections,” Director Cathy Williams leads a video tour of the department’s reading rooms and exhibition space, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the ...

UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized the papers of celebrated physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018), creating a comprehensive online archive that offers unparalleled access to ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Sarah Poot Herrera has built a cross-border scholarly network through her research on Sor Juana and Mexican literature, fostering collaboration, mentorship and cultural ...

While global socioeconomic trends dominate how land use affects ecosystems, being strategic about how we abandon and expand agricultural land can protect habitat, biodiversity and carbon sinks.

UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.

The University of California Board of Regents today approved Dr. Dennis Assanis as UC Santa Barbara’s sixth chancellor. He will assume his role on September 1, 2025.

Using an optogenetic platform developed in biologist Max Wilson's lab to screen hundreds of thousands of compounds, researchers discover dozens of small molecules that can selectively amplify the body ...

Scientists uncover why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, solving a longstanding quandary in the science of rivers.