A drought in the central Amazon cooked region's lakes. Water reached 104º F in Lake Tefé, killing river dolphins. UCSB scientists contributed to an international study of the causes and consequences.

UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum revisits the visionary 1970s collective Environmental Communications, whose multi-media documentation of Los Angeles reimagined the city as a living ecosystem — and reshaped how we see the built environment today.

Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

Materials scientist Omar Saleh’s NSF-funded research explores how charged polymers could power next-generation adhesives and drug delivery systems.

By redefining aging as an evolutionary achievement, Gurven challenges a youth-obsessed culture to see the later decades of life as vital to our collective survival

In “Reimagining a New American Democracy,” Ifill explores themes including the 14th Amendment, the power of civic participation and the essential role of higher education in shaping engaged citizens.

The campus established a dedicated Repatriation Office in 2024 to oversee compliance with federal and state laws and to coordinate closely with Native Nations. The office is charged with summarizing collections, reporting campus holdings to state and federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) offices, facilitating consultation and ensuring that tribes have the information they need to guide decisions about their heritage and cultural belongings.

Witchcraft has long been dismissed as superstition or spectacle — but a new interdisciplinary field reframes it as feminist resistance. In The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2025), scholars Jane Ward and Soma Chaudhuri introduce feminist witch studies, exploring how witchcraft functions as a site of power, persecution and decolonial critique. Centering voices from the Global South, the book challenges dominant narratives and examines how witches — real and imagined — confront systems of gendered and colonial control.

In groundbreaking work with physicist Ania Jayich, newly minted Ph.D. Lillian Hughes demonstrates how two-dimensional arrays of spin qubits in diamond can be entangled to achieve a metrological quantum advantage — a key advance toward next-generation quantum technologies.

UCSB researchers develop data-driven strategies to retire U.S. coal plants smarter and faster, accelerating the clean energy transition.

The technology management professor draws on 20 years of research to examine why our digital life is so overwhelming — and elucidate some strategies to help us stem that stress.

UCSB researchers welcome visiting taxonomists for a seafloor census in the Santa Barbara Channel

Artist Kim Garcia’s new LA show connects family stories with Philippine history.

Undergrad/graduate-student teams will present their research conducted this summer during the Bren Environmental Leadership fellowship program

New study reveals the forces that built and collapsed ancient urban centers — and how they echo in today’s urban challenges

A new book, “Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir” (Bloomsbury, 2025) by UC Santa Barbara’s Suzanne Jill Levine, examines this moment of cultural exchange while reflecting on her own experiences as a translator during that era.