Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

To help keep single-use plastics from Tajiguas Landfill, a pair of undergraduate students in the Environmental Leadership Incubator program have expanded recycling and reuse efforts across campus.

Richert Wang has conducted research in parallel and distributed systems, specifically in system design, resource management, and routing mechanisms. He also works on computer science pedagogy topics ...

Alan Murray studies how communities can better understand and respond to local risks and vulnerabilities, like natural disasters. This requires synthesizing knowledge on a number of geographic and ...

“Our study shows that improving access to technology like broadband internet and smartphones, and healthcare technology use like telehealth and health-related social media platforms, can significantly ...

Hương Ngô (Huong Ngo, Ngô Ngọc Hương, 吳玉香) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work attends to refugee epistemologies, expanding concepts of time and knowledge to those that are ...

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z Image Liming Zhang Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

Joseph Polchinski moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1992, where he was a Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Polchinski's contributions to ...

Corina Logan's research has advanced our understanding of behavioral flexibility, linking behavior to environmental change, cognition, and success in human modified environments through a comparative ...

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 ...

It’s 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of marine protected areas ...