Initiative to collect and recycle used gloves from campus labs diverts thousands of pounds of single-use plastic from waste ...

Prior efforts to develop hardware for optimization problems have involved Ising machines, a category of hardware solvers that ...

A new certificate program offered by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education aims to increase the number of bilingual and ...

Humans and chimpanzees share more than 95% of our genome, and yet we are remarkably different. A new study highlights the ...

‘Tis the season of generosity, and now UC Santa Barbara students can give back to fellow classmates in need of a meal. Launched in fall quarter 2024, the meal swipe donations program allows any ...

Michael Beyeler’s work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, engineering and psychology, where he is advancing sight-recovery technologies — including retinal and cortical ...

We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms — think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum gates — lasers are the technology of ...

When a local family brought home a farmed Christmas tree to brighten their holidays, they never expected to find a surprise hidden among the branches: a tiny northwestern salamander, over 300 miles ...

Jason Turowetz's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of multiple areas, including social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity ...

When Wendy Eley Jackson first met Cara Yar Khan, she saw more than a disability advocate. She saw a story waiting to be told. Yar Khan’s rare genetic condition, hereditary inclusion body myopathy ...