The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s 2022-2023 public events series examines life in the Information Age.

Scientists develop a method for recycling plastic into high-value plastic molecules, which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A new interdisciplinary institute aims to revisit the foundations — and assumptions — of science.

In August, President Joe Biden signed historic legislation to address the climate emergency, taking action to significantly lower emissions by 2030. Leah Stokes, a political-­science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was a power­house contributor to this effort. Leah is a thoughtful leader, researcher, expert communicator, and organizer all rolled into one dynamic—and very fun—person.

David Novak, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of “Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation,” describes the band’s influence by referring to an oft-misquoted remark by Brian Eno that relatively few people bought the Velvet Underground’s albums at the time, but each of them (seemingly) formed a band.

Achieving high efficiency in LEDs is all about maximizing the number of carriers (electrons and holes) that produce light (radiative recombination) and minimizing all parasitic recombination processes. These parasitic recombination processes include Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) and Trap-Assisted Auger Recombination (TAAR), both of which are being studied extensively at UCSB with the support of the DOE.