William Shakespeare’s plays transcended their origins almost immediately. Even during his lifetime, his unforgettable characters and indelible lines were already escaping the stage, taken up by others ...

Lily Collins and David J. Gross, 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics winner speak onstage during the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 18, 2026 in Santa ...

Welcome to UC Santa Barbara’s REEF, where the starfish are sassy, the urchins are ornery, the sharks act like sea puppies and if you kiss a sea cucumber, you’re in for some good luck (allegedly).

Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices — a detrimental ...

Could the next big antibiotic or cancer therapy be found on the nearest coral reef? Researchers have found that reefs are home to a vast array of previously unknown bioactive metabolites — small ...

Julia C. Morse's research focuses on international organizations, with particular attention to issues of reputation, compliance and market-driven enforcement. Her work has been published in ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

To discover creative solutions to the challenges of climate change, educators are increasingly turning to those who could someday be impacted the most: today’s children. In her three-minute overview ...

For the first time in the journal’s history, a UC Santa Barbara professor sits at the helm of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, a flagship publication and the most widely read outside the discipline.

UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate in physics, Skyler Palatnick, PhD ’26, has been named to Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program’s new class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, which he will perform at ...

In international politics, outcomes are shaped not only by what countries do, but by how those actions are perceived. UC Santa Barbara political scientist Julia Morse studies how information disorder ...