Isla Vista

Long before homes and apartments covered the mesa overlooking the Pacific, the area was inhabited by the Chumash people, whose villages stretched along the Santa…

Over the past three decades, eight members of the UC Santa Barbara faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, making UCSB one of the world's most…

This article uses the phrase “connected to Isla Vista” broadly. Inclusion may be based on attendance or employment at UC Santa Barbara, documented participation in…

While exploring UCSB, remember that many of the laboratories surrounding the campus aren't simply classrooms—they're places where tomorrow's technologies are being invented. The next breakthrough…

So, pull up a chair, grab a burrito, and enjoy a few of Isla Vista's most enduring stories.

If you ask several UCSB alumni about Beer Die, don't expect identical answers. The stories, house rules, and memories are often as entertaining as the…

In Santa Barbara, ordering a smoothie has sometimes meant simply asking for a “Blenders.” Few local businesses become so familiar that their brand name begins…

From energy-efficient lighting and high-speed communications to conductive plastics, quantum computing, and our understanding of the universe itself, UCSB's faculty have helped shape technologies that…

In 1958, the University of California Regents officially designated the campus as a general campus of the University of California system.