The Art, Design & Architecture Museum reopens to in-person visitors and welcomes new director Gabriel Ritter.

Scientists investigate how elephants shape their environment even after death.

UC Santa Barbara is voted the Best Place to Work in the Independent’s annual readers poll.

Patrick McCray, a historian at UC Santa Barbara who sat in on early meetings about the observatory, told me that O’Keefe’s decision to honor an American bureaucrat put off some scientists at the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, with whom NASA is working on the mission.