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 Barbara. The nonprofit organization, founded in 2009 by fourth-year environmental studies major [...]
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 powders and water guns to color the landscape in the tradition of the [...]
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 receive network benefits — such as subsidized prescription costs — at Walgreens and other pharmacies under [...]
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 Hohn’s literature concerning humans’ environmental impact to spark discussion on consumerism, global trade, science and the media in [...]
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 program’s two principle researchers, were awarded the funding for their initiative to create local cellular networks for residents [...]
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