However, according to the researchers, the rush to fulfill the mandate, coupled with less funding and personnel to do so, presents more chaos than benefit, which could ultimately make the U.S. seafood ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) award will support UC Santa Barbara researchers in developing the next generation of cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data. Leading the effort is B. S ...

In the industrialized cohorts, the authors observed a consistent signature of increased inflammation with age, which was associated with chronic age-related diseases, such as stroke, cardiovascular ...

UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division has launched a new award to spotlight the vital contributions of postdoctoral scholars, celebrating their excellence in mentorship and leadership. In its inaugural ...

Jason Turowetz's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of multiple areas, including social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity ...

Each year an advisory committee of UCSB faculty, staff, students and community partners selects the winning title, a book — by a living author — that’s interdisciplinary, intellectually stimulating ...

William Nomikos researches how identity and domestic politics shape international intervention using a mix of computational, experimental, econometric, and field methods. His first book, "Local Peace, ...

The study surveyed 400 parents of children ages 5–12. Among a variety of assessments, parents gauged their children’s level of emotional awareness and control and concern for others. Parents also ...

The comet thought to be responsible for the Younger Dryas cooling episode is estimated to have been 100 kilometers wide (62 miles) — much larger than the Tunguska object, and fragmented into thousands ...

Before the impact, the researchers found, the inhabitants’ prehistoric diet involved wild legumes and wild-type grains, and “small but significant amounts of wild fruits and berries.” In the layers ...

According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This usually means that the so-called “force” of ...

There’s been a push to increase organic production in the U.S., which begs the question of how this will affect pests and pest control for other farms. Most pesticide studies have focused on the field ...