The campus notches more than two dozen winners of prestigious NSF graduate fellowships
graduate research
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Daniel Hieber’s three-minute talk about the once-extinct language of Chitimacha made him the winner of the third Grad Slam competition
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Dana Bardolph’s research shows a great disparity between the number of papers published by male and female authors, respectively
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New work by Andrea Jani and Cherie Briggs addresses a fundamental gap in disease ecology and microbiome research
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Scholars examine the origins and effects of Caribbean migration to the United Kingdom
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Scientists develop a new way to decode specific aspects of movement in the human brain
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James G. Allen, whose research uses satellite imaging to model ocean ecosystems, came away with the top prize of $2,500, competing against nine other graduate students in the finals
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$20-million Head Health Challenge seeks to improve the safety of athletes, soldiers and others who sustain mild traumatic brain injury
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Graduate student Benjamin Baird combines cutting edge computation with classic tasks and functional magnetic resonance imaging to map neural networks connected to perception and memory. The findings demonstrate that the ability to accurately...
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The relationship between land simplification — the conversion of natural habitat to cropland — and insecticide use is important in determining land use policy. New findings show that the correlation between the two varies from year to year,...
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Imagine an artificial pancreas device that frees diabetics from constant blood glucose testing, nanoparticles that selectively deliver chemotherapy to tumors with minimal impacts to healthy tissue, or brain imaging that detects serious...
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With this morning's landmark Supreme Court rulings –– and Gov. Jerry Brown's announcement that county clerks will soon begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples –– California becomes the 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain assumptions.
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For her dissertation project, Sophia Rochmes, a doctoral student in the history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is researching 15th-century manuscripts in ducal and noble libraries of present-day France and Belgium.
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Imagine you're dining at a restaurant in a city you're visiting for the first –– and, most likely the last –– time.
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Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), UC Santa Barbara graduate student Amy Gusick is searching underwater landscapes in Mexico this week, hoping to find evidence of ancient habitations.
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A doctoral student in the geography department at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose research in modeling and simulation resolution has important applications for homeland security, has recently been awarded three prestigious...
