Metatext: In his latest book, UCSB scholar Benjamin Cohen examines the global and domestic pressures that could push countries, including the U.S., toward breakup.

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler developed a curiosity-focused app that helps users build curiosity through small daily actions — offering new insight into how ...

Electron-phonon interactions — collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material — are considered the primary cause of electrons slowing ...

Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck revisits The Hapa Project, exploring 25 years of mixed Asian Pacific Islander identity through portraits and personal stories.

UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division has launched a new award to spotlight the vital contributions of postdoctoral scholars, celebrating their excellence in mentorship and leadership. In its inaugural ...

For her interdisciplinary ethics research through the lenses of antiracist and anticolonial movements, UC Santa Barbara comparative literature PhD candidate Solaire Denaud has received the Charlotte W ...

Thanks to a student-led sports-waste recycling program at UCSB, Gauchos (and visiting community members) can recycle their old sports gear in the drop-off bin at the Rec Cen.

Madeleine Gross is a leading researcher in the psychology of curiosity, creativity, and personality development. Her work—featured in popular media outlets like The New York Times, Psyche and Closer ...

A pioneering program designed to uplift and empower social science students reached a new milestone with the graduation of the inaugural class of PROPEL scholars at UC Santa Barbara.

UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering has been renamed to honor former Dean Robert Mehrabian for his transformative contributions and leadership.

Pitching a business that uses artificial intelligence to provide individually tailored math tutoring for college students struggling with advanced coursework, the student creators of RazeMath won ...