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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Santa Barbara assistant professor Yang Yang has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a first for a UCSB faculty member.

In labs and classrooms across the UC Santa Barbara campus this summer, 25 young scholars in the Academic Research Consortium (ARC) are pursuing projects, making connections and learning what it takes ...

Seeking to support Santa Barbara area high school students interested in applying to any University of California campus, the admissions team at UC Santa Barbara is hosting free community workshops to ...

Joseph Polchinski moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1992, where he was a Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Polchinski's contributions to ...

Jenny Dugan studies basic questions concerning the influence of environmental and anthropogenic drivers on community and population dynamics of marine animals across a diversity of shorelines, ...

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We wanted to look at the trajectory of brain changes specifically within the gestational window,” said Laura Pritschet, lead author of a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience. Previous studies ...