Red berries on green branches, blue sky
UC Santa Barbara |

Celebrating a uniquely Californian winter

Take note of festive native plants and heighten your enjoyment of the season.
A little pale white clam underwater
UC Santa Barbara |

A needle in a coastal haystack

A tiny species known only from fossils is found alive in the tidepools of Santa Barbara.
Assortment of healthy ketogenic low carb food ingredients for cooking on a kitchen table. Green vegetables, meat, salmon, cheese, eggs.
UC Santa Barbara |

Dietary interventions for polycystic kidney disease yield an ‘amazing’ result

A carefully managed ketogenic diet could help effectively manage the disease, which affects more than 12 million people worldwide.
Student therapist Jason Fly
UC Santa Barbara |

A healing space: Supporting racially-informed therapy training

A Santa Barbara Foundation grant underscores the community need for racially-informed therapy services.
UC regent José Hernández speaks with Yvette Gullatt
UC Newsroom |

Persistence was key to UC regent and NASA astronaut José Hernández’s achievement of lifelong dream

Hernández shares what he has learned from a life that is the stuff of movies. (In fact, Amazon is turning it into a feature film!)
Humpback whale feeding in Pacifica, California
UC Santa Barbara |

Setting up a ‘school zone’ for whales

Marine research and conservation institutions band together to expand whale-saving technology to the San Francisco Bay.
People sitting on a hillside watching Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall erupt
UC Santa Barbara |

How a popular volcano is changing what we know about how volcanoes work

Recent findings from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall eruptions change what we know about the fundamentals of volcanoes.
UC Office of the President |

UC claims top spots in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges rankings

Six University of California campuses are among the top 10 public universities in America, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges rankings, released today (Sept. 12). For the third straight year in a row, the magazine also placed all nine of UC’s undergraduate campuses on its coveted list of the top 100 public and private universities across the country.

A woman looking at a nutrition label in a store
UC Santa Barbara |

A nutrition label for Earth

Researchers estimate the environmental impacts of 57,000 common store-bought food products.
Illustration of a pair of DNMT3A enzymes joining two auxiliary proteins (green) to form a four-part complex
UC Santa Barbara |

A new kind of chemo

Researchers identify a new class of drugs that offer a safer, more targeted treatment for leukemia patients.
Black woman scientist looking up in a warehouse
UC Santa Barbara |

What do you think of when you picture a scientist?

There are many versions of a female scientist, but still more work to do to overcome stereotypes, researcher says.
Students gather outside on a sunny day among the redwoods at UC Santa Cruz
UC Newsroom |

University leaders present ambitious plan to help thousands more Californians earn a degree

UC leaders today (July 21) presented a plan to increase enrollment by 23,000 students over the next eight years.
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