In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the youth to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their ...

In the early 1970s, a loose-knit group of architects, artists and sociologists working out of Venice Beach began to look at Los Angeles not as a collection of buildings but as a living, breathing ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Daniel Blumenthal’s lab is part of one of four design teams from around the country selected by the National Science Foundation for its recently launched National Quantum ...

Whether natural or synthetic, polymers — large molecules made up of repeating units called monomers — exhibit complex structures and properties that make them useful in a wide range of applications.

Free trade agreements have done more than move goods across borders. They’ve also shaped how societies define and regulate bodies, identities and belonging. International trade policies, especially ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.

David Patterson is extending the tools of atomic, molecular, and optical physics to prepare polyatomic molecules in single quantum states for the first time. Research interests include the development ...

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans — a gap large enough to derail national climate goals. A new study led ...

As every artist knows, one way to catch a viewer’s eye is a jarring juxtaposition. Take the original poster for Stephen Sondheim’s 1976 musical “Pacific Overtures,” currently on display at the UC ...

A new generation of scholars and researchers coming up through the environmental sciences at UC Santa Barbara knows the importance of good old-fashioned classroom study and fieldwork. And, through a ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Continuing the partnership that’s been successful for several years running, UC Santa Barbara is again partnering with students, local agencies and the community to develop rules, regulations, safety ...