UCSB is one of only 61 institutions elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. And the Newsweek guide to America’s best colleges has named UCSB one of the country’s “hottest colleges” twice in the past decade.
In addition to five Nobel Laureates, UCSB’s faculty includes many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25), the National Academy of Sciences (32), the National Academy of Engineering (25), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (60). Three UCSB professors also have been named MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Office of Military Commissions building in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was where much legal activity about the detainees’ cases was handled.
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Lisa Hajjar, University of California Santa Barbara
The release of a new movie calls public attention to the US government's treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and what the detainees' future might be.
The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don't leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.
Fishing on the high seas is expensive, and the profits are often small.
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Forced labor is a widespread problem in fisheries on the high seas. Between 2012 and 2018, an estimated 100,000 people may have been victims of forced labor on thousands of different boats.
Australia’s dingo fences, built to protect livestock from wild dogs, stretch for thousands of kilometers.
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Millions of miles of fences crisscross the Earth's surface. They divide ecosystems and affect wild species in ways that often are harmful, but are virtually unstudied.
Tsimane children look out over the Maniqui River, in the Bolivian Amazon.
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Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
'Normal' body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find the trend extends to Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon – but why?
Bales of plastic waste destined for recycling.
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Plastic waste is a global problem. Now a chemist has developed a new strategy for breaking down the most common plastic so it can be not just recycled, but upcycled into desirable goods.
Many prizes that aim to spur innovation are winner-take-all.
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Luciano Kay, University of California Santa Barbara
Society has never faced more pressing challenges. Researchers are investigating how monetary prizes can help focus innovators' attention, creativity and investment on finding solutions.
Extreme wildfires can fuel tornadoes, creating erratic and dangerous conditions for firefighters.
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Opening colleges and universities for in-person instruction this fall could be risky, but so could going online. A higher education funding expert explains why.
Koloni kecil kalelawar bertelinga besar di Lava Beds National Monument, Calif.
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Peter Alagona, University of California Santa Barbara
Kalelawar lebih berperan dalam membantu penyerbukan tanaman dan memakan hama serangga dibandingkan untuk menyebarkan berbagai virus - yang sebenarnya terjadi karena ulah manusia sendiri.
A small colony of Townsend’s big eared bats at Lava Beds National Monument, Calif.
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Peter Alagona, University of California Santa Barbara
The value that bats provide to humans by pollinating crops and eating insects is far greater than harm from virus transmission – which is mainly caused by human actions.
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Max Moritz, University of California Santa Barbara
Two fire researchers argue that recent fires in Northern and Southern California show why health and social equity need to be part of fire preparedness.
For centuries, people thought nothing of crowding family members or friends into the same bed.
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Brian Fagan, University of California Santa Barbara
Today's beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches from which kings ruled and places where travelers hunkered down with complete strangers.
Manifestation à Montréal, en mars 2019, pour la sauvegarde de l'environnement.
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La majorité des Canadiens, tant dans les circonscriptions conservatrices que libérales, s'entendent pour dire que les changements climatiques constituent une menace majeure.
According to new research, the majority of Canadians in all but three ridings across the country believe their province has already felt the effects of climate change.
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Chris Free, University of California Santa Barbara
As the oceans warm, fish are moving to stay in temperature zones where they have evolved to live. This is helping some species, hurting others and causing a net reduction in potential catch.
In this April 2019 photo, migrants planning to join a caravan of several hundred people hoping to reach the United States wait at the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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Canada is playing a role in the life-and-death struggle for migrant justice in the United States -- from our foreign economic policies to the actions of our mining companies and domestic asylum laws.
Micha Berry of the city of Fresno, Calif., which relies heavily on groundwater for its drinking water supply, repairs a groundwater well pump in 2013.
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Debra Perrone, University of California Santa Barbara and Scott Jasechko, University of California Santa Barbara
Millions of Americans rely on groundwater for their lives and livelihoods, but regulation is piecemeal. A new study maps groundwater wells nationwide and finds that they are drilling steadily deeper.