Postdoctoral fellow Anindya Ganguly has earned an Early Career Research Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a part of the National Institutes of ...

UCSB’s 2025 Propel Scholars include, from left, (with Director Bryan Zuniga in center): Ingrid Nathanael Lopez Higuera, Joana Perez, Josephine Barton, Jam Miranda, Veronica Acevedo, Bryan Zuniga ...

Madeleine Gross is a leading researcher in the psychology of curiosity, creativity, and personality development. Her work—featured in popular media outlets like The New York Times, Psyche and Closer ...

The sun came out, and so did the stars. And by stars we mean the thousands of new UC Santa Barbara graduates who crossed the commencement stage, capping off another academic year. But also: ...

As the manager of the campus lagoon and other open space areas on campus, Lisa Stratton has been active in pursuing opportunities to restore native habitat, improve water quality, and support ...

According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This usually means that the so-called “force” of ...

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the ...

It’s an imperative that has been borne out repeatedly over recent decades: Unraveling the relative contributions of traditional, well-known risk factors like diet and physical activity, along with ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

A retinal stem cell patch developed through a collaboration of researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Southern California and California Institute of Technology continues to make progress in ...

Focusing on subjects between 18–45 years old, first author Jordan Garrett — who graduated with his Ph.D. from the department in June — and Giesbrecht's team at the UCSB Attention Lab screened ...

This is only the latest pesticide research to come out of Larsen’s lab. She previously found that less diverse croplands led to greater variability in pesticide use, as well as higher peak pesticide ...