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March 17, 2020 by

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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Held For Newly Constructed Fence in Walter Capps Park

May 13, 2013 by

Last Thursday, local officials and members of the public gathered at Walter Capps Park to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly erected wooden fence along the park’s oceanside cliff. Sp...
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Assistant Professor To Discuss Highly Controversial Act

May 8, 2013 by

UCSB history and environmental studies assistant professor Peter Alagona will give a free lecture on the Endangered Species Act today at 4 p.m. in the HSSB McCune Conference Room. Alagona’s lecture,...
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Flying Lanterns Light Up Camino Pescadero Park During Alpha Kappa Psi’s Fundraiser

May 3, 2013 by

Yesterday night the brothers of the Alpha Eta Pledge Class of Alpha Kappa Psi held a Flying Lantern fundraiser in Camino Pescadero Park. The event began at 9 p.m., and although the official release ti...
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UC Holds Forum on World Hunger, Sustainability

April 10, 2013 by

The University of California held a global forum yesterday focused on addressing the issue of worldwide hunger by bringing together researchers, farmers, environmentalists, policymakers and other sust...
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Award-Winning Comics Theorist and Cartoonist to Discuss Development of Art

April 10, 2013 by

Tonight, renowned comic theorist and author Scott McCloud will give a lecture titled “Comics and Visual Communication” at Campbell Hall, discussing the overall evolution of comic art in its many f...
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Student Activists Protest Regents Board Meeting

November 16, 2012 by

At yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting, roughly 500 student protesters blocked entrances to the venue, stalling the three-day gathering on its last day of discussion at the UCSF Mission Bay camp...
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U.S.Authorities Discover Smuggled Marijuana on Small Vessel at Sea

November 14, 2012 by

U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection patrols apprehended a small boat car- rying approximately 35 large packages of mari- juana yesterday morning just north of San Miguel Island. Authori...
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Students Earn Scholarship From New Foundation

June 21, 2012 by

UC Santa Barbara recently awarded two students with $4,000 in tuition assistance as part of a new scholarship commemorating the death of Lucas Ransom, a UCSB student killed in an October 2010 shark at...
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Outstanding Senior Graduates Receive Prestigious Honors

June 21, 2012 by

This past Friday graduating seniors Harrison Weber, Seth Gorelik and Antoinette Moreland- Carter received three of UCSB’s most prestigious awards for scholastic achievement and other contributions t...
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Researchers Seek More Information About Sponges’ Lack of Neurons

June 20, 2012 by

UCSB neuroscience and biology researchers recently published their discoveries regarding the link between the evolution of the human nervous system and the anatomy of nerve-less sponges in the science...
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Criminal Seeks Release From Mental Hospital

June 8, 2012 by

The Santa Barbara County Superior Court heard additional testimonies on Monday regarding the legal fate of David Attias, who struck and killed four people in a 2001 vehicle/pedestrian collision now kn...
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The Hungry Gaucho

May 30, 2012 by

Beyond the doors of UCSB dining commons, buffets are non-existent in the streets of Isla Vista. Perhaps it is for the better; a buffet in Isla Vista would be a jungle of penniless students scrambling ...
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UCSB Wins the Gold by Going Green

May 23, 2012 by

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) honored the campus’ San Clemente Village Apartments with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award for the second time, making the a...
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Scientists Receive Awards for Innovative Research

May 23, 2012 by

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded UCSB chemistry professor and director of the Material Science Lab Craig Hawker the 2012 Centenary Prize for chemistry in recognition of Hawker’s innovative wor...
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