Elizabeth Ackert’s research examines the demographics of disparities. Her work centers on trends in racial and ethnic differences in various sectors of society, including immigration, education, ...

UCSB's Arpit Gupta has earned two major Google awards for his work developing low-cost AI network models, paving the way for more accessible, “self-driving” networks.

A pair of longtime professors in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese have been recognized for their ongoing scholarship. This fall, Distinguished Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña — ...

Renowned UC Santa Barbara physicist Gary Horowitz has been honored with the Dirac Medal for his landmark advancements in gravity and string theory, a rare distinction among scientists.

Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritus ...

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

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.

Kat Beheshti has earned the Cronin Early Achievement Award from the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation.

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.

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.

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

Researchers have developed a model that captures the nuanced ways that plants manage water stress, and how this affects soil moisture levels.