It remains an open question when a commercial quantum computer will emerge that can outperform classical (non-quantum) machines in speed and energy efficiency while solving real-world combinatorial ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

Changing audience tastes, the rise of streaming platforms and post-COVID doldrums are among the challenges faced by the filmmaking industry as it navigates the evolving landscape of traditional ...

While doing research for his first book, “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky visited more than 20 ...

One recent evening, a group of fourth-year engineering students at UC Santa Barbara gathered on campus to meet with Kelsey Judd, an alum who is now a program manager at the Santa Barbara office of ...

Expanding their worldview and gathering class credits along the way, upward of 1,300 UC Santa Barbara students are projected to study across the globe this academic year — participants in a campus ...

With a background in both STEM and communication, Harrison Tasoff is a science and environmental journalist who delights in deciphering new research and distilling it into clear language. Every story ...

Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim. The theoretician, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was recently awarded the American ...

Sonia came to science writing after working many years as a journalist. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in English, she’s thrilled to be writing for her alma mater and working with the ...

The UC Board of Regents has approved the scope, design and budget for UC Santa Barbara’s East Campus Student Housing Project, which will provide 1,688 beds (412 replacement beds and 1,276 new beds) on ...

November 20, 2025 Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart” named UCSB Reads 2026 book November 20, 2025 Star panel to discuss moviegoing in an evolving marketplace Photo Credit courtesy Transdisciplinary ...

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Studies Program in 1994, Keith pursued a career in journalism, initially writing for The Channels at Santa Barbara City College. He then worked ...