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.

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, ...

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 ...

Arlene Ortiz is a licensed psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. Dr. Ortiz has experience providing mental health services in English and Spanish to underserved populations, and ...

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.

The largest assessment of groundwater levels around the globe found that aquifers are declining worldwide. But a few success stories highlight that proactive management can reverse these trends.

Long before the Europeans arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the native Polynesian culture known as Rapa Nui showed signs of demographic decline. However, the catalyst has long been debated in the ...

It’s an idea that has finally gained scientific consensus: Dogs can be a faster, more precise, less expensive — not to mention friendlier — method of detecting COVID-19 than even our best current ...

Researchers reveal that eukaryotic organisms had already evolved into a diverse array of forms even 1.64 billion years ago.