Gaucho Brings Education to Youth in Ghana
UCSB graduate student Gary Haddow is extending his passion for education to Ghana’s Buduburam Liberian Refugee Camp, where he and two colleagues founded a free primary school that hopes to enroll 100 of the camp’s children this year.
Mario as Michelangelo: Video Games as Art
It takes a long time for a new form of art to be accepted as a “true” form of art, whatever that means. Generally when people think of art they think of paintings, literature or sculptures, but art is so much more. For instance, let’s talk about a relatively recent development.
UCSB Alumni Start Website
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.
Volunteers Clean SB County Coast
Volunteers from Santa Barbara County removed over 6,180 pounds of garbage last Saturday throughout the region’s beaches as part of the International and California Coastal Cleanup Day. The California Coastal Commission and Coastal Conservancy hosted the cleanup at 29 sites throughout the county from Rincon Beach Park to Guadalupe Dunes and worked with over 1,100 […]
Campus Transport Advisors Discuss Parking Proposal
The Parking Ratepayers Board, part of UCSB Transportation and Parking Services, met yesterday in the Chancellor’s Conference Room to discuss impending rate increases for on-campus parking lots. The board considered a proposal to institute a “tiered parking rate structure” in which the desirability of a parking spot would dictate the price of the spot’s permit. […]
Refurbished Burger Joint Launching in October
Fat Mo’s Burgers and Car Wash has replaced Pardall Road’s burnt out Flaming Grill as Isla Vista’s latest arrival and will celebrate its grand opening during the first weekend in October — but don’t expect to see any suds. While Mo’s offers an assortment of burgers, rice bowls, salads and desserts, it provides no car-cleaning […]
Updated Website Links I.V. Locals
Several UCSB alumni recently launched a revised version of their Isla Vista-specific social networking website, Stampur.com. Stampur.com Chief Executive Officer Scott Antipa, Chief Technological Officer Kyle Ibrahim and Max — who asked that his last name be omitted — developed the site to connect students to each other based on shared interests. The group previously […]
UCSB Professor Develops Efficient Light Displays
The National Academy of Television and Sciences will honor UCSB materials, electrical and computer engineering professor Shuji Nakamura at the 63rd Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards this January for his development of high efficiency blue, green and white LED lighting. The academy established the awards — part of the International Consumer Electronics Show in […]
Air Force Calls Off Test on Peace Day
The Air Force Global Strike Command cancelled yesterday’s scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in order to finish analyzing the results of their failed July 27 launch.
UC Regents Reveal Long-Term Budget Plan
Following a $650 million funding reduction for higher education in California’s latest state budget, the UC Regents unveiled a long-term budget plan last week suggesting that student contributions to the UC would continue to increase 8 to 16 percent annually for the next four years.