UCSB student film "The Circus Monkey" has been nominated for a prestigious Student Emmy. Written by Travers Tobis and ...

With three minutes, one sticky problem and a standout performance, Kirstin Rollins won the 2025 UC Santa Barbara Grad Slam. A PhD student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

In the fall of 1977, Nori Muster was starting her senior year at UC Santa Barbara. A transfer student from Humboldt State, she was working towards a degree in sociology. Like so many young adults, she ...

A field experiment conducted with cities in China demonstrates that an increase in government transparency causes decreases ...

Invasive species cause environmental mayhem when they establish themselves in a new ecosystem. But these interlopers can also ...

Mark Buntaine investigates how improved governance can support the implementation of environmental policies in low- and middle-income countries. In the past several years, he led experimental projects ...

It’s 6 a.m. on a Saturday. You slept terribly and can think only of coffee. Bundled up in your baggiest sweats, hat pulled down over your hair and dark sunglasses for anonymity, you slink into the ...