On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

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 — ...

Scientists have developed a method to automate the precise synthesis of oligosaccharides, opening new doors for biomedical research, including vaccines and diagnostics.

“It’s a national competition that happens every year at the Michigan International Speedway,” said Thomas Yu, who has served as Gaucho Racing’s president for the past year. A subset of the more ...

Gary Horowitz’s research centers on the classical and quantum aspects of gravity under extreme conditions, such as those inside black holes and the big bang — areas where Einstein’s equations break ...

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.

Anthropologists find that cranial lesions — used to assess the health of historical populations — are linked to compromised immunity ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

An internationally recognized expert in the sociology of sexualities, culture, and the city, Amin Ghaziani investigates how queer life takes shape and changes form in urban environments, from the ...

Among more than 1,300 titles across 26 categories, “Long Live Queer Nightlife” (Princeton University Press, 2024) is on the Lambda Literary Awards shortlist of top-five titles for the “Best Book in ...

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.