As regional leaders from a diversity of public offices and private sectors gathered at UC Santa Barbara for the REACH Ideas + Action Summit 2026, Chancellor Dennis Assanis welcomed them with an ...

Santa Barbara County has many of the ingredients needed for walking, cycling and other forms of active transportation: great weather, relatively flat city centers, walkable streets and a robust and ...

For the second year in a row, UC Santa Barbara’s Army ROTC Surfrider Battalion is headed to the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition at West Point to compete against teams from around the world. UCSB ...

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...

A team of UC Santa Barbara engineering and molecular biology graduate students has developed software to accelerate the discovery process for therapies aimed at treating Alzheimer’s and other diseases ...

In response to student and industry demand, as well as to announcements at both federal and state levels suggesting the United States needs to move ever more forcefully into the AI space, UC Santa ...

With new NSF award, computer science associate professor Prabhanjan Ananth will study the foundations of quantum computing as a cryptographic tool Whether you use a smartphone or a computer, pay for ...

Electrical and computer engineering professor James Buckwalter has been inducted as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors for his work advancing the high-speed and high-frequency ...

At the highest levels of academic research, the task of finding, cleaning and sorting massive amounts of data often becomes Herculean. To help shoulder the load, more and more scholars are turning to ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified the mechanism by which pathogenic Bordetella bacteria promote the colonization of mammalian airways. This mechanism, if interrupted, could lead to novel ...

Humans have endeavored to predict the weather since time immemorial. Far from a mere perk, our ability to accurately forecast has been tied to our very survival. And as meteorology developed into an ...

What is a river worth? Not only its water, or the agriculture it supports. Not only the hydropower, or the ecosystems along its path. The river, in its entirety. UC Santa Barbara professor Rafael ...