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Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm

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Wind energy projects in North America are more likely to be opposed by white, wealthy communities

What's Current

September 26, 2023

Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece

September 26, 2023

Researchers build and test a framework for achieving climate resilience across diverse fisheries

September 25, 2023

What book inventories reveal about shifting cultural identities in New Spain

In Video

An art museum with a defining collection of Southern California architecture and design

In Focus

September 6, 2023

Making change, and creating justice, through art

September 6, 2023

Artist residency merges hands-on creativity and cutting-edge science

August 28, 2023

Prescribed burn at North Campus Open Space will revive an ancient tradition

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A woman singing in a production still from 'Nashville'

September 26, 2023

Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña dramatically lit in the Santa Barbara Courthouse mural room

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

September 25, 2023

What book inventories reveal about shifting cultural identities in New Spain

Writer Cherríe Moraga in 1982

Writer Cherríe Moraga, 1982

September 19, 2023

Honoring her work to elevate issues of gender, sexuality and race, Cherríe Moraga’s seminal lesbian and Chicana text is expanded and re-released

Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana and Tess McCormick

Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana (left) and Tess McCormick on Santa Cruz Island

August 22, 2023

Adventuresome filmmaking meets theory, technique and environmental education

fishers just off a Pacific island shore

Fishers coming home on a paddle canoe after fishing on the fore reefs of Abaiang, Kiribati

September 26, 2023

Researchers build and test a framework for achieving climate resilience across diverse fisheries

Portrait of Kenneth Kosik

Kenneth S. Kosik

September 19, 2023

A peek inside the quickening race to understand, treat — and even cure — Alzheimer’s disease

facade of building

September 15, 2023

The Materials Research Laboratory receives a six-year, $18 million grant from NSF

September 11, 2023

Wifi can read through walls

Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm

iStock / Vanessa Nunes

September 25, 2023

Wind energy projects in North America are more likely to be opposed by white, wealthy communities

Silvia Rodriguez Vega and book cover with children's drawing

September 13, 2023

Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation

Historian Kate McDonald

Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023

September 11, 2023

From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation

Two opposing heads with winged and horned brain and tailed and haloed brain.

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Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.

September 7, 2023

Moral reasoning displays characteristic patterns in the brain, with distinctions between moral categories

Rows of bikes are seen in the foreground, with palm trees and a modern building in the back

September 18, 2023

From impact to academics to outcomes, UC Santa Barbara ranks among the nation’s top universities

Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery

Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain

September 6, 2023

The current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved

Burned facade of Lahaina Store

Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Foster/ Wikimedia commons

August 29, 2023

Unite to Light sends solar lamps and chargers to Lahaina

Archival photos of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Santa Barbara

Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, circa 1926 (left), and in 2000. Photos courtesy of Mary Robles.

August 15, 2023

Library collaboration showcases Santa Barbara community history

In Depth

west side of the island coastline with waves crashing over rocks

Ocean Solutions

Working to preserve the world’s oceans

landscape of Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve in Mammoth Lakes

Stewards of Nature

A multimedia series to highlight UCSB's Natural Reserve System

three researchers huddled around an object for survey

Channel for Discovery

Learnings revealed from the Santa Barbara Channel