Professor Joseph Blankholm has received $1.55 million from the John Templeton Foundation to lead a three-year study exploring how spirituality is evolving outside traditional religious institutions.

Focusing on “the starting line problem,” a new large-scale study tackled that tiny psychological pause between intention and action, finding that a brief two-minute reflection exercise can reduce emotional resistance and help people take the crucial first step toward action.

Djouini has been selected to present a solo exhibition with Personal Structures at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia — the renowned Venice Biennale, often described as the Olympics of the art world.

Securing a prestigious fellowship, doctoral student Jesse Landesman cultivates a career where academia meets avocados

In her new book “Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade” (Duke University Press, 2025), feminist studies scholar Jennifer Tyburczy traces the intersections of global economics and social regulation from the 1980s to the present.

Researchers at UCSB develop and test therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of polycystic kidney disease

Focusing on “the starting line problem,” a new large-scale study tackled that tiny psychological pause between intention and action, finding that a brief two-minute reflection exercise can reduce emotional resistance and help people take the crucial first step toward action.

Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

A drought in the central Amazon cooked region's lakes. Water reached 104º F in Lake Tefé, killing river dolphins. UCSB scientists contributed to an international study of the causes and consequences.

UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum revisits the visionary 1970s collective Environmental Communications, whose multi-media documentation of Los Angeles reimagined the city as a living ecosystem — and reshaped how we see the built environment today.

Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

Materials scientist Omar Saleh’s NSF-funded research explores how charged polymers could power next-generation adhesives and drug delivery systems.

By redefining aging as an evolutionary achievement, Gurven challenges a youth-obsessed culture to see the later decades of life as vital to our collective survival

In “Reimagining a New American Democracy,” Ifill explores themes including the 14th Amendment, the power of civic participation and the essential role of higher education in shaping engaged citizens.

The campus established a dedicated Repatriation Office in 2024 to oversee compliance with federal and state laws and to coordinate closely with Native Nations. The office is charged with summarizing collections, reporting campus holdings to state and federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) offices, facilitating consultation and ensuring that tribes have the information they need to guide decisions about their heritage and cultural belongings.

Witchcraft has long been dismissed as superstition or spectacle — but a new interdisciplinary field reframes it as feminist resistance. In The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2025), scholars Jane Ward and Soma Chaudhuri introduce feminist witch studies, exploring how witchcraft functions as a site of power, persecution and decolonial critique. Centering voices from the Global South, the book challenges dominant narratives and examines how witches — real and imagined — confront systems of gendered and colonial control.

In groundbreaking work with physicist Ania Jayich, newly minted Ph.D. Lillian Hughes demonstrates how two-dimensional arrays of spin qubits in diamond can be entangled to achieve a metrological quantum advantage — a key advance toward next-generation quantum technologies.

UCSB researchers develop data-driven strategies to retire U.S. coal plants smarter and faster, accelerating the clean energy transition.