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UC Santa Barbara News & Events | The Current

Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.

Photo Credit

Explora_2005 via iStock

Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.

Science + Technology

Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change

What's Current

May 29, 2024

Shining a light on new chemical reactions

May 23, 2024

How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill

May 22, 2024

Controlling the chaos of active fluids

In Video

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

In Focus

May 28, 2024

Understanding aging on a cellular level

May 24, 2024

Mario T. García: A lifetime of achievement in Chicano/a history

May 20, 2024

Investigating the changing disease ecology of California

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the organizers of the art show, mentors and faculty advisors

Photos by Hannah Frogge and Andrew Dang

Clockwise from top left: Kristine Joy Chua, Amy Boddy, Hannah Frogge, Kim Yasuda, Anastasia Senavsky and Emilie Risha

May 16, 2024

‘Originalia’ art show celebrates the human reproductive system

Three costumed actors - two men and one women - on a darkened stage

“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.

May 16, 2024

A dreamlike history play that resonates today

portrait in black and white of possibly Asian American woman with red dots in background

Chiho Harazaki, Shippo, detail, 2023

May 14, 2024

‘Positive Exposure: SoCal Asian American Art' exhibit features UCSB grad student and alumni artists

A promotional image from the film "The Citizen" depicts a man with dark hair on a payphone, with a NYC backdrop

“The Citizen” provides a gripping commentary on the sociopolitical landscape of the U.S. and the everyday struggles of Arab-Americans after 9/11

May 14, 2024

‘The Citizen’ examines the immigrant experience in a post-9/11 world — with echoes that resonate today

Theo world map fading into blue water.

Philip Hoeppli via iStock

June 3, 2024

UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles

Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.

Explora_2005 via iStock

Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.

May 30, 2024

Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change

concept illustration of chemical reactions using light

May 29, 2024

Shining a light on new chemical reactions

a barnacle in a jar

Sonia Fernandez

Sessile creatures like this barnacle were the key to determining when the oil pipeline was compromised, an event that eventually led to the oil spill

May 23, 2024

How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill

cars driving up State Street

May 15, 2024

The state of State

Black Studies Professor Sabrina Strings

May 15, 2024

How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape

mother nursing baby

May 3, 2024

Researchers find that a new mother’s immune status varies with her feeding strategy

Image of Black Studies professor on gray background

Jeffrey C. Stewart

May 2, 2024

Historian Jeffrey Stewart elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for his work in the visual arts

photograph of Brenda Major

Brenda Major, May 2024

May 20, 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences

Staff luncheon on the Lagoon Green with Storke Tower in the background

May 16, 2024

In appreciation of campus staff

kacie ring with blue background young white woman

A Ph.D. student in ecology, evolution and marine biology, Kacie Ring placed second in the UC Grad Slam.

May 9, 2024

UCSB’s Kacie Ring triumphs at UC Grad Slam, places second, wins people’s choice

The graduating class of 2018

May 7, 2024

Sign me up: staff stalwarts help keep commencement running

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In Depth

west side of the island coastline with waves crashing over rocks

Ocean Solutions

Working to preserve the world’s oceans

Natural Reserve System landscape of SNARL

Stewards of Nature

A multimedia series to highlight UCSB's Natural Reserve System

three researchers huddled around an object for survey

Channel for Discovery

Learnings revealed from the Santa Barbara Channel