Eating a diet of almost exclusively animal products and experiencing relentless, chronic dehydration would lead to serious problems for many of us, but not so for the Turkana of northwest Kenya. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Santa Barbara Channel is a hotbed of biodiversity, thanks to the many species whose ranges meet and overlap in the area. As a transition zone between the cold water of the California Current and ...

Why move to a city? And why leave? Urban centers today see populations ebb and flow for a multitude of reasons — the economy, crowds, lifestyle considerations, air quality, the odd pandemic perhaps.

Painting a rich picture of a campus known for its innovative spirit, dynamic culture and vibrant community, a host of recent rankings uphold UC Santa Barbara’s status as a leading university across a ...

Paul Leonardi’s research, teaching and consulting focus on helping companies to create and share knowledge more effectively. He is interested in how implementing new technologies and harnessing the ...