UC Santa Barbara professor James B. Rawlings has been named the 2025 recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the nation’s top recognition for career contributions to automatic ...

Environmental law professor Jim Salzman was elected to the prestigious American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL).

The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed funding for BioPACIFIC MIP — the Biomaterials, Polymers and Advanced Constructs from Integrated Chemistry Materials Innovation Platform — a ...

Silvia Bermúdez is Professor of literature and Iberian Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship focuses on Iberian feminisms, ...

A pair of longtime professors in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese have been recognized for their ongoing scholarship. This fall, Distinguished Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña — ...

Arpit Gupta co-directs the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL), where he has been utilizing his system-building skills to address a variety of pressing digital inequity challenges, namely, ensuring ...

Carol Blanchette's main areas of research are marine and community ecology, and her work has largely focused on nearshore marine ecosystems; rocky intertidal, kelp forest and seagrass. Further ...

Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural activities and climate resilience.

Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritus ...

A mechanical jumper developed by UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Elliot Hawkes and collaborators is capable of achieving the tallest height — roughly 100 feet (30 meters) — of any jumper to ...