Ideas to reduce carbon emissions often revolve around renewable power, electric vehicles and energy efficiency. But there’s another, less colorful character that’s often overlooked: cement. “Cement ...

Jia-Ching Chen's interests are in China's role in shaping the global green economy and the spread of Chinese planning expertise through its international development activities. He also has ...

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (COE) at UC Santa Barbara will launch the university’s first fully online master’s degree program, an expansion of UCSB’s engineering curriculum designed ...

For the first time, a land manager in Oregon, a county planner in California or a federal agency in Alaska can look up a single number — the Wildfire Resilience Index (WRI) score — for any community, ...

Jia-Ching Chen, an assistant professor of global studies at UC Santa Barbara, will spend the 2026–27 academic year in Taiwan on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study the geopolitical intersections ...

Thanks to a new nonprofit — the Electrochemistry Foundry (ECF) — and construction begun under its auspices, UC Santa Barbara is poised to join a group of collaborating partners in a new era of battery ...

Culminating the latest season of UCSB Reads, bestselling author and Grammy-nominated musician Michelle Zauner, of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, shares the story behind her memoir “Crying in H ...

Diane Fujino, a professor of Asian American studies, is featured in the new PBS documentary “Of the People: Women in the Civil Right Movement,” discussing her research and writing about the life of ...

Sonia came to science writing after working many years as a journalist. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in English, she’s thrilled to be writing for her alma mater and working with the ...

You’ve probably seen them: Glossy black, mid-sized birds with bright yellow eyes and a brazen attitude. They’re grackles, and they live where humans like to be, hoping for handouts, picking through ...

Attrition in undergraduate engineering students is an issue across the country, with some researchers reporting that close to 50% of those who start college as engineering majors have switched by the ...

While the world is a big place, humans are making greater and greater demands on the same areas of land. “This means that, unless we use the same land to serve multiple needs and coordinate this ...