Carissa Quiambao

June 4, 2015

Farewell from Nexus Editor in Chief

By Carissa Quiambao

Outgoing Daily Nexus Editor in Chief Carissa Quiambao says farewell.

May 22, 2015

Students Win New Venture Competition With BAC Monitor Startup

By Carissa Quiambao

This year’s New Venture Competition (NVC) Finals awarded its annual $10,000 grand prize to student tech start up Milo, a business projected to create a device that proactively monitors the blood alcohol content (BAC) o...

May 20, 2015

Record-Breaking Mountaineer Speaks at Campbell

By Carissa Quiambao

Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, the world’s first woman to climb all fourteen 8,000 meter mountain peaks without the use of supplementary oxygen, spoke at Campbell Hall Tuesday night about her 8,611 meter ...

April 16, 2015

Lucidity Festival

By Carissa Quiambao

This year’s Lucidity arts and music festival was nothing short of magic. From offering live instrumental music and electronic bass music to unbelievably beautiful art installations and stunning dance and theater perfor...

April 9, 2015

Festival Preview: Lucidity Festival

By Carissa Quiambao

Prepare to get Lucid, Santa Barbara.

March 5, 2015

Interview with Progressive EDM Artist Slow Magic

By Carissa Quiambao

Last Thursday’s pop-up concert series, Pop-Off, by RedEye Presents brought masked musical mastermind Slow Magic to the stage. The progressive electronic music artist is known for his dreamy and celestial sound, his phe...

November 26, 2014

Protesters Flood Santa Barbara Streets In Wake of Ferguson Verdict

By Carissa Quiambao, Peter Mounteer

Hundreds of students, Santa Barbara residents and other local community members rallied and marched throughout the streets of downtown Santa Barbara last night in protest of Monday’s grand jury decision not to indict a...

November 7, 2014

Creature Carnival ft. Beats Antique to Come to L.A.

By Carissa Quiambao

Looking to get weird this weekend? Look no further. This Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in L.A., world fusion and electronic music group Beats Antique will be headlining the last leg of their Creature ...

November 6, 2014

Getting Into Focus: Nexus Explores ‘Study Drug’ Use Among Students

By Christopher Chen, Carissa Quiambao

According to statistics gathered by a Daily Nexus survey randomly sampling 376 students, 40.7 percent of students have tried some psychoactive prescription drug at least once in their life and 35 percent have tried Adder...

October 24, 2014

Yang the Giant to Perform at UCSB

By Carissa Quiambao, Liana Bevacqua, Robert Johnson

  Out-of-towners crowdin’ your lawns? Headache-inducing floodlights ruinin’ your buzz? No-music ordinances killin’ your vibe? No way! Come join the many faces of Yang in the Thunderdome on Halloween instead of...

October 16, 2014

DVA Week Aims To Educate UCSB Community

By Carissa Quiambao

“Love Shouldn’t Hurt,” a series of events organized for this week’s ongoing Domestic Violence Awareness Week, began on Monday and continues onto Friday with presentations and activities inviting students to explo...

October 13, 2014

Pardall Carnival Brings Food, Fun, Games and Community Gathering

By Carissa Quiambao

This past Saturday afternoon marked the sixth annual Pardall which took place on Pardall Road in Isla Vista between Embarcadero del Norte and Embarcadero del Mar.

October 9, 2014

Jack Johnson Performs at “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, & Unite”

By Carissa Quiambao

Around 5,000 students gathered at Storke Plaza yesterday afternoon to promote a safer, healthier UCSB and Isla Vista community in commemoration of the six students who lost their lives during the May 23 Isla Vista traged...

October 5, 2014

Letter From the Editor

By Carissa Quiambao

Class of 2018: You’ve made it. Finally. After years of dragging your ass to class every day at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday, after arduous hours sitting through the dreaded SAT test and after endless days drafting your...

July 11, 2014

Autopsy Reveals Cause of UCSB Student’s Death

By Carissa Quiambao

In a coroner’s report provided to the Daily Nexus through a Public Records Act request, an autopsy revealed that former second-year double major in philosophy and language Sierra Markee-Winkler sustained injuries consi...

July 11, 2014

Napolitano, UC Target Global Food Crisis

By Carissa Quiambao

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the UC Global Food Initiative last Tuesday, an initiative that aims to unite various efforts and resources across the UC system to address the world’s globa...