Cara Boroda

October 14, 2002

C.U.E., UC-AFT To Begin Strike

By Cara Boroda

The Coalition of University Employees and the University Council-American Federation of Teachers will begin a systemwide strike this week after recent negotiations with the University of California failed.

October 4, 2002

UC Loses Funding, Cuts Budget

By Cara Boroda

On July 1, the start of the 2002-03 fiscal year, UC began receiving substantially less than what is usually allocated from the state. The reduced funding will continue until June 30, 2003, the end of the fiscal year.

May 22, 2002

Oceanic Toxin May Be Killing Marine Life

By Cara Boroda

The animals may have become sick by eating schooling fish or shellfish contaminated with domoic acid, a naturally occurring toxin that may also cause human illness.

May 8, 2002

Research Team Observes Ocean Phytoplankton

By Cara Boroda

The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Project, or simply the SeaWiFs project, has generated new quantitative data evaluating the relationship between ocean color and phytoplankton.

April 18, 2002

Graduate Files Appeal in Thesis Ban Suit

By Cara Boroda

The bench of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena heard arguments on April 8 from University of California lawyers and Christopher Brown, a former UCSB graduate student of material engineering who sued UCSB facul...

April 9, 2002

Outreach Program Gives K-12 Students Robotic Exploration

By Cara Boroda

With professional backgrounds in subjects such as engineering, computer science, robotics and physics, the three directors of Robochallenge are taking time out to play with LEGOs.