UCSB student film The Circus Monkey has been nominated for a prestigious Student Emmy. Directed by Travers Tobis and produced ...

With three minutes, one sticky problem and a standout performance, Kirstin Rollins won the 2025 UC Santa Barbara Grad Slam. A PhD student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental ...

Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the platypus. Since they are common in research, this opens new avenues of study.

In the fall of 1977, Nori Muster was starting her senior year at UC Santa Barbara. A transfer student from Humboldt State, she was working towards a degree in sociology. Like so many young adults, she ...

Inside our fall/winter issue you'll find a trio of inspiring conservation stories from California's eastern Sierra region, where UC Santa Barbara has a natural reserve — and a huge research presence.

A field experiment conducted with cities in China demonstrates that an increase in government transparency causes decreases ...

Invasive species cause environmental mayhem when they establish themselves in a new ecosystem. But these interlopers can also ...