Kathleen Tan

May 11, 2012

Environmental Group To Host Fundraiser For Education Efforts

By Kathleen Tan

The locally founded program Environmental Education for the Next Generation will hold its first annual Investing in Our Youth Gala and Auction from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. this Sunday at Chase Palm Park Plaza in downtown Santa ...

April 20, 2012

Holi Celebration To Debut

By Kathleen Tan

This Saturday, the UCSB Indus organization will host a celebration in honor of Holi, the Southeast Asian festival of colors. The event will take place at Goleta Beach at noon. Participants will use an array of colored po...

January 30, 2012

Insurance Dispute Ends Partnership

By Kathleen Tan

This year, the UC Student Health Insurance Plan will no longer cover Walgreens prescriptions due to the company’s failure to reconcile negotiations with Anthem Blue Cross. Students covered under UC SHIP can no longer r...

January 10, 2012

Yearly Free Book Program Tackles Plastic Pollution

By Kathleen Tan

The UCSB Reads 7th annual program is distributing free copies of Donovan Hohn’s Moby-Duck this Thursday in the Davidson Library’s main lobby for participants in the communal reading initiative. The program features H...

November 14, 2011

Internet to Better Rural African Life

By Kathleen Tan

Two professors from UCSB’s Computer Science Dept. received $100,000 last week for their project to bring a low-cost communications network to Africa’s rural areas. Professors Elizabeth Belding and Amr El Abbadi, the ...

September 29, 2011

Film Award Chooses Gaucho as Finalist

By Kathleen Tan

The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation named UCSB alumna and screenwriter Cameron Lund a finalist in its 56th annual writing contest for an opportunity to gain exposure and a chance to win up to $15,000 in prize money. The organi...

September 22, 2011

UCSB Alumni Start Website

By Kathleen Tan

UCSB Alumni David Friermor and Jordan Townsend launched the interactive website ClassWave for students to instantly share lecture notes, study guides and hold discussions about assigned readings.

July 13, 2011

UCSB Professor Recieves National Recognition

By Kathleen Tan

Chemistry and biochemistry professor Bruce Lipshutz received the 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency during a ceremony on June 20 at the Ronald Reagan Building i...

May 18, 2011

UCSB Entrepreneurs Earn Prize

By Kathleen Tan

A team of three UCSB students won the Kauffman Foundation’s international entrepreneurship competition last weekend in Silicon Valley with their mobile textbook sharing application 1night.me. Undergraduates Christian D...

May 11, 2011

Six Teams To Pitch Business Proposals in Venture Contest

By Kathleen Tan

Six teams will compete in the final round of UCSB Technology Management Program’s twelfth annual New Venture Competition today at 3 p.m. in Corwin Pavilion.

April 15, 2011

Proposed Fund To Aid Students

By Kathleen Tan

Several members of the Associated Students Legislative Council proposed a new lock-in fee this quarter to increase support for A.S.’s current Emergency Student Loan program. Known as the UCSB Community Financial Fund, ...

April 13, 2011

UCs To Foster Support for System Salary Cuts

By Kathleen Tan

In a cost-cutting measure, the University of California Office of the President is proposing a voluntary system-wide program to reduce staff employee hours. The Employee-Initiated Reduction in Time program would permit U...

April 11, 2011

Budget for Children’s Center Up for Reapproval

By Kathleen Tan

UCSB’s University Children’s Center is asking for the reaffirmation of two separate lock-in fees totaling to $8.50 per undergraduate student per quarter in the upcoming Spring Election.

March 2, 2011

UCSB Nonprofit Enters Contest

By Kathleen Tan

Environmental Education for the Next Generation, a nonprofit student organization founded by undergraduates at UCSB, will compete for a $100,000 grant next month to secure funding that would expand its efforts.

February 1, 2011

Book Chronicles SBCC History

By Kathleen Tan

Santa Barbara City College concluded the year-long celebration of its centennial in December with the release of A Century of Success, A Future of Possibilities.

January 18, 2011