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University students and professor flank an adult in a wheelchair in front of a weight machine

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Capstone project client Steve Ferreira (center) with (from right): Professor Tyler Susko and team members James Freda, Carlos Rivera, Janna Tucker, Joesph Byun and Cannon Crow.

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An innovative, student-designed weight machine makes working out more accessible to people who use wheelchairs

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May 31, 2023

Student-run investment group connects undergrads to the world of finance

May 31, 2023

New grant funds are helping the Gevirtz School prepare teachers California sorely needs

Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings

“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.

Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

May 30, 2023

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way

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Susannah Scott discusses her efforts to develop a new form of plastics.

In Focus

May 30, 2023

An all-time, top Peace Corps volunteer-producing university

May 25, 2023

Mourning widows helped preserve postwar German art music

May 23, 2023

Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program

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Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings

“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.

Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

May 30, 2023

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way

Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

May 23, 2023

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”

Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover

Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.

May 10, 2023

A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera

A woman seen from behind standing a window that opens to a brick wall

The piece "Hope," by an anonymous artist, is part of the exhibition "Woman. Life. Freedom."

May 5, 2023

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights

University students and professor flank an adult in a wheelchair in front of a weight machine

Capstone project client Steve Ferreira (center) with (from right): Professor Tyler Susko and team members James Freda, Carlos Rivera, Janna Tucker, Joesph Byun and Cannon Crow.

June 1, 2023

An innovative, student-designed weight machine makes working out more accessible to people who use wheelchairs

A whitebark pine growing on the rock overlooking Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Whitebark pines growing in cold, high elevation regions grew more during droughts, which lengthened their growing season.

May 22, 2023

How a drought affects trees depends on what’s been holding them back

A pumpjack nestled between trees and luxury homes.

California currently has no setback restrictions, so oil production can occur in the middle of neighborhoods like Signal Hill, in Los Angeles.

May 18, 2023

Keeping California’s oil in the ground will improve health but affect jobs

A hand hovering over a match

Our perception of pain arises from a complex system connected to many other pathways.

May 17, 2023

A channel involved in pain sensation can also suppress it

stock market ticker screen

May 31, 2023

Student-run investment group connects undergrads to the world of finance

Male teacher leaning against desk talking to diverse classroom

May 31, 2023

New grant funds are helping the Gevirtz School prepare teachers California sorely needs

Ted Egan, Christopher Waller, and Peter Rupert

2023 South Coast Economic Summit guests (from left) Ted Egan, Christopher Waller and Peter Rupert

May 26, 2023

‘Keep calm!’ The economy stays steady despite inflation and the impacts of remote work

An envelope addressed to UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, from Corcoran State Prison

With a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Grant, Foundations in the Humanities is funded to run at Corcoran for three years.

May 18, 2023

Humanities program brings courses in literary studies to individuals in the California state prison system

Social Sciences and Media Studies Building

May 23, 2023

Building on their vision — and their legacy — alumni Louise and Stephen Pahl gift the campus $10.5 million for social sciences research in the interest of change

Side-by-side headshots of Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein

Left to right: Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein

May 1, 2023

Joining one of the world’s premier honorary societies, three professors are named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Annette Hilton on stage giving a research talk

Hydrologist Annette Hilton is the winner of the Grad Slam Showcase 2023.

April 18, 2023

Grad Slam winner Annette Hilton wants to use data to keep tap water flowing

Students descend the building’s main staircase.

The ILP’s large windows and open corridors take advantage of the Southern California sunshine.

April 17, 2023

A new, fully electric facility opens just in time for spring quarter, increasing classroom capacity by 35%

In Depth

west side of the island coastline with waves crashing over rocks

Ocean Solutions

Working to preserve the world’s oceans

landscape of Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve in Mammoth Lakes

Stewards of Nature

A multimedia series to highlight UCSB's Natural Reserve System

three researchers huddled around an object for survey

Channel for Discovery

Learnings revealed from the Santa Barbara Channel