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March 17, 2020

LIVE: Updates on Coronavirus in Santa Barbara County, on UC Santa Barbara Operations

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May 13, 2013

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

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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. Spanning 390 feet alon...

May 8, 2013

Assistant Professor To Discuss Highly Controversial Act

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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, entitled “Forty Y...

May 3, 2013

Flying Lanterns Light Up Camino Pescadero Park During Alpha Kappa Psi’s Fundraiser

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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 time for the lanterns ...

April 10, 2013

UC Holds Forum on World Hunger, Sustainability

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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 sustainability experts f...

April 10, 2013

Award-Winning Comics Theorist and Cartoonist to Discuss Development of Art

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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 forms. The lecture, w...

November 16, 2012

Student Activists Protest Regents Board Meeting

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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 campus. The Regents disc...

November 14, 2012

U.S.Authorities Discover Smuggled Marijuana on Small Vessel at Sea

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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. Authorities took the three ...

June 21, 2012

Students Earn Scholarship From New Foundation

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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 attack. The Lucas Rans...

June 21, 2012

Outstanding Senior Graduates Receive Prestigious Honors

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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 to the campus communi...

June 20, 2012

Researchers Seek More Information About Sponges’ Lack of Neurons

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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 journal Proceedings...

June 8, 2012

Criminal Seeks Release From Mental Hospital

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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 known as the “Isla V...

May 30, 2012

The Hungry Gaucho

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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 to devour as much fo...

May 23, 2012

UCSB Wins the Gold by Going Green

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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 apartment complex the...

May 23, 2012

Scientists Receive Awards for Innovative Research

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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 work with novel polymer...

May 18, 2012

Vehicle Collision Injures SB Student, Closes Mesa Road

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UCSB student Felisha Olmos was struck by a vehicle on Mesa Road early yesterday morning and is currently in critical condition at Cottage Hospital. According to UCPD Public Information Officer Sergeant Rob Romero, Olmos ...