A new study out of UCSB's Media Neuroscience Lab indicates that gaming disorder (AKA video game addiction) likely develops from a player's preexisting mental health conditions.

Umesh Mishra's areas of research include: development of GaN electronics, GaN opto-electronics, GaN materials, oxide-based electronics, non-stoichiometric semiconductors, vacuum microelectronics, and ...

Silvia Bermúdez is Professor of literature and Iberian Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship focuses on Iberian feminisms, ...

Carol Blanchette's main areas of research are marine and community ecology, and her work has largely focused on nearshore marine ecosystems; rocky intertidal, kelp forest and seagrass. Further ...

UCSB's Arpit Gupta has earned two major Google awards for his work developing low-cost AI network models, paving the way for more accessible, “self-driving” networks.

Arpit Gupta co-directs the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL), where he has been utilizing his system-building skills to address a variety of pressing digital inequity challenges, namely, ensuring ...

A pair of longtime professors in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese have been recognized for their ongoing scholarship. This fall, Distinguished Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña — ...

Gary Horowitz’s research centers on the classical and quantum aspects of gravity under extreme conditions, such as those inside black holes and the big bang — areas where Einstein’s equations break ...

Renowned UC Santa Barbara physicist Gary Horowitz has been honored with the Dirac Medal for his landmark advancements in gravity and string theory, a rare distinction among scientists.

An internationally recognized expert in the sociology of sexualities, culture, and the city, Amin Ghaziani investigates how queer life takes shape and changes form in urban environments, from the ...

Anthropologists find that cranial lesions — used to assess the health of historical populations — are linked to compromised immunity ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...