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Six UCSB junior faculty members selected for 2026 NSF CAREER awards

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UCSB Study Reveals Brain Functions During Visual Searches

UC Santa Barbara to Conduct Prescribed Burn on Lagoon Island

UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Wins Award for New, Highly Useful Reagents in Catalysis
Cecilia Conaco and Kenneth Kosik

Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge

UCSB Scientists Synthesize First Genetically Evolved Semiconductor Material

Study by UC Santa Barbara Psychologists Reveals How Brain Performs ‘Motor Chunking' Tasks

Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance
Professors Joel Rothman (left) and Boris Shraiman

UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute Receives Two Grants to Explore Interface of Physics and Biology

Plants Previously Thought to be ‘Stable' Found to be Responding to Climate Change

SeaSketch, the Next Generation of UCSB's MarineMap Program, Will Aid Marine Spatial Planning Around the World

UCSB Researchers Find that Less is More, for Female Cowbirds

New iPhone App Bridges Science, Technology, Education, and a Day at the Beach
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