Science & Tech

From strawberry fields to the stars: UCSB alum Jose Hernández’s story

May 8, 2025 by

On Tuesday, April 29th, UCSB alum Jose Fernandez spoke about his long journey from the Central Valley to becoming a NASA astronaut in Campbell Hall.
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OPINION: The glamorization and commodification of space travel

May 8, 2025 by

On April 14, 2025, Jeff Bezos sent Katy Perry and a team of five other women beyond Earth’s atmosphere. But what exactly does Mr. Bezos know about spaceflight, and why is the aerospace industry shif...
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Simply Stated: Do you need high-protein everything?

May 1, 2025 by

The International Food Information Council’s 2024 Food & Health Survey suggests that the hunger for protein has become even more pronounced in recent years, perhaps due to American adults’ extensi...
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Meghan Morrissey: Bringing creativity to cancer research

May 1, 2025 by

At the beginning of 2025, UC Santa Barbara assistant professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Meghan Morrissey was granted the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for her research...
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What’s in the water? Domoic acid poisons marine mammals along Southern California coast

April 24, 2025 by

Since late March, beachgoers have encountered hundreds of washed-up animals suffering from domoic acid poisoning with symptoms that include seizures, erratic and dangerous behavior and comas.
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Simply Stated: Can nature have legal rights?

April 24, 2025 by

As the planet faces intensifying climate disasters, a growing number of legal scholars, activists and governments are calling for a radical shift in how we think about environmental protection — by ...
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UCSB student organizations making strides in sustainability

April 17, 2025 by and

From educating future environmental scientists to building rainwater catchment systems in Rwanda, these student-led organizations are at the heart of UC Santa Barbara’s sustainability efforts. 
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Simply Stated: ‘Trash pandas’ on our campus: can we coexist?

April 17, 2025 by

Spotting a raccoon at night is an experience shared frequently by students at UC Santa Barbara but what brings them onto our campus? 
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Spotlight: female UCSB alumni making strides in S.T.E.M

April 10, 2025 by

The following women are exceptional UC Santa Barbara alumni that have paved the pathway to empower future women and girls to pursue their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (S.T.E.M.) aspiratio...
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Research in Review: mosquito studies, methamphetamine reinforcement in rats and shark conservation efforts

April 10, 2025 by

New UCSB research on mosquitoes, rat appetites, and shark overfishing
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The power of reminiscing: Nicole Albada highlights the value of ‘remember when’ for memory retention

March 16, 2025 by

On Feb. 26, Nicole Albada delivered a lecture on “Personal Memories and Successful Aging” as part of the Aging and Longevity Lecture Series at the Direct Relief facility in Goleta.
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OPINION: Phones may be “rewiring” our lives

March 16, 2025 by

Alongside an uptick in social media and phone usage in the early 2010s, the prevalence of loneliness has increased sharply among U.S. adolescents.
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Author Richard Powers speaks on the intersections of science, literature and environmental loss

March 6, 2025 by

On Feb. 23, bestselling author Richard Powers prompted an audience of nearly 800 people in Campbell Hall to consider the environment as more than just a literary backdrop but a living, breathing and e...
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The Buzz Around the bee exhibit: A look at Santa Barbara’s pollinators

March 6, 2025 by

An exciting new exhibit, “Through the Looking Glass: A Microscopic Look at our Native Bees,” has been installed at the UC Santa Barbara library to showcase some of the true local bees in the area ...
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Simply Stated: Is the ‘frat flu’ part of the college experience?

February 27, 2025 by

For students outside of Greek life, fraternity lingo can feel like a foreign language, yet one term has transcended the Greek glossary: “frat flu” colloquially describes the wave of viral upper re...
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