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Napa Ever After publicity photo of a Black woman and man embracing

Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier — lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson wrote the screenplay

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December 6, 2023

Global studies scholar-activist Charmaine Chua receives Harold J. Plous Memorial Award

December 5, 2023

Modernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current

December 5, 2023

California NanoSystems Institute’s new mentor-in-residence is ready to assist campus entrepreneurs, innovators and startups

In Video

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

In Focus

December 6, 2023

Grad Slam revs up for 2024 competition

December 6, 2023

A major materials award for Chris Van de Walle

December 5, 2023

The beauty of thinking differently, reflected in art

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blue infinity pool rectangular shape overlooking the hills

Helena Arahuete, Interior of the Roscoe house ("House above the Morning Clouds"), 2009

December 5, 2023

Modernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current

Napa Ever After publicity photo of a Black woman and man embracing

November 29, 2023

Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier — lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson wrote the screenplay

UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí

UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023

November 27, 2023

Compendium on Chicano poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera strikes gold

Painting of a friend by Lyra Purugganan

November 17, 2023

Take a friend to an artist’s studio

Flames from the Thomas Fire reflect in the waves at night.

Ray Ford / Noozhawk

Flames from the Thomas Fire reflect in the waves just west of Ventura. Its proximity to the ocean provided researchers a unique opportunity.

December 4, 2023

Thomas Fire research reveals that ash can fertilize the oceans

A scuba diver swims in a kelp forest

Courtesy of NPS

November 30, 2023

Illuminating the benefits of marine protected areas for ecotourism, and vice versa

Maps and cityscapes on a grid.

Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation

November 21, 2023

Mapping science: How GIS transformed our view of the world

illustration of a robotic arm working with DNA

November 17, 2023

Scientists will eliminate bottlenecks to breakthroughs with a newly acquired synthetic biology robotics system

a large industrial fishing vessel surrounded by seabirds

A trawler off the coast of South Africa

November 13, 2023

A ‘fish cartel’ for Africa could benefit the countries, and their seas

image of multiple heads

November 9, 2023

Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests

stock photograph of a teenage female at school experiencing sadness

A U.S. Department of Education grant will fund mental health services for K–12 schools nationwide

October 30, 2023

Expanding mental health treatment for schoolchildren focus of national grant award to Gevirtz School and partner universities

Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight

Giuliana Perrone, October 2023

October 18, 2023

Freedom in the aftermath of slavery: historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failures of American law

Photo of scholar-activist Charmaine Chua

Ellie Leonardsmith

December 6, 2023

Global studies scholar-activist Charmaine Chua receives Harold J. Plous Memorial Award

a hand touching a colorful lightbulb in a row of downward facing "off" lightbulbs

December 5, 2023

California NanoSystems Institute’s new mentor-in-residence is ready to assist campus entrepreneurs, innovators and startups

Cynthia De La Rosa

November 29, 2023

In pursuit of racial justice, by way of teaching, research and mentoring

pharmacy director in doorway

Sonia Fernandez

Student Health Services' Pharmacy Director Randy Lina

November 20, 2023

New Student Health pharmacy location to provide better access to students

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Working to preserve the world’s oceans

landscape of Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve in Mammoth Lakes

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A multimedia series to highlight UCSB's Natural Reserve System

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Learnings revealed from the Santa Barbara Channel