Nitrogen is one of life’s building blocks, but it’s only helpful in the right amounts. Too much nitrogen in water, for example, can lead to poor water quality and the gradual death of aquatic ...

What do the Tsimané of lowland Bolivia have in common with the Hadza of Tanzania? Aside from their mostly nonindustrial lifestyles and the ocean between them for millennia, the two populations have ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

The Department of Art is hosting weekly talks with a diversity of guest artists, campus faculty and distinguished alumni. Free and open to the public, the Visiting Artist Colloquium runs through early ...

Counting one’s blessings. Journaling. Saying a prayer. Writing a letter of appreciation. We can all intuit that practicing gratitude has positive effects on our lives — generally improving our outlook ...

And away we go. A new academic year at UC Santa Barbara is officially underway, and it's giving all that good Gaucho energy. Classes begin today, but the campus has been buzzing over the last week — ...

Far and wide on campus at UC Santa Barbara this fall, the arts have arrived across a spectrum of sights, sounds and movement. From Romeo and Juliet to metaphysical spirituality. From the creative art ...

When Wendy Berry Mendes Ph.D. ’03 designs a study, she imagines Jim Blascovich asking whether participants will become fully absorbed in the experience. When she prepares to explain the results, she ...

Economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, a distinguished professor and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has won the 2026 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor ...

Shelly Lundberg's research is focused in Labor Economics and the Economics of the Family, and includes both theoretical modeling (of discrimination and inequality and of family decision-making) and ...

All nominees and recipients will be honored during the Student Affairs Spring Divisional Meeting on Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Corwin Pavilion. News Bites September 22, 2026 UC ...