Jan 16, 2025 · Inside our fall/winter issue you'll find a trio of inspiring conservation stories from California's eastern Sierra region, where UC Santa Barbara has a natural reserve — and a huge research presence. This mini-package, starring the Owens Valley pupfish, Yosemite’s mountain yellow-legged frogs ...

Jan 15, 2025 · Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser

Jan 16, 2025 · Intending to have a larger presence in the downtown area, and to work with the City of Santa Barbara and the community to support the revitalization of Santa Barbara’s primary business corridor, UC Santa Barbara received approval from …

Jan 22, 2025 · Santa Barbara’s year-round sunshine and good weather make it an attractive tourist destination and a paradise for UC Santa Barbara’s campus community. However, the Southern Californian climate is inseparable with the cycle of wildfires that grip the state every year. Fortunately, the geography ...

1 day ago · UC Santa Barbara Professor David Valentine has been making headlines since 2020 for discovering evidence of widespread toxic-waste dumping off the California coast. The news caused outrage and concern, prompting action from state and federal agencies and from congress. The dust likely won’t settle for decades.

3 days ago · Greater biodiversity promotes ecosystem health, resilience and productivity. This tenet has become a cornerstone of conservation, a centerpiece of resource management and a paradigm of academic research. But when David Tilman proposed the idea in the mid 1990s, it ran against most established ...

Feb 22, 2024 · With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).

May 4, 2023 · Vigna and UC Santa Barbara colleagues Chris Kruegel, João Hespanha and Ambuj Singh will be joined by more than 20 collaborators from UC Berkeley, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, The University of Chicago, University of Washington, University of Illinois Chicago, Rutgers, Norfolk State University, University of Illinois and University of Virginia. ...

Aug 29, 2024 · This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (Ex-FAB), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC …

Oct 17, 2024 · For affordability, social mobility, research impact, academics and other metrics, the campus is again considered among the nation’s — and the world’s — top universities, according to myriad recent rankings.