Hannah Nelson

September 25, 2014

Twenty Years of Yang

By Hannah Nelson

He has advised the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA and the National Science Foundation. This past year, he finished his term as an elected chairman of the Association of Pacific Rim Univers...

July 4, 2014

UCSA To Ask UC Regents to Postpone Student Regent-Designate Confirmation

By Peter Mounteer, Hannah Nelson

Yesterday afternoon in a closed meeting, the University of California Students Association (UCSA) voted to recommend the UC Regents postpone their confirmation of Avi Oved as the student regent designate for the 2014-201...

June 1, 2014

Gun Control Rally Marches Through I.V.

By Hannah Nelson

Students, locals and members of nonprofit organizations gathered in front of I.V. Deli Mart Saturday to protest gun violence for the #NotOneMore campaign, a gun control movement started by Richard Martinez, father of Chr...

April 28, 2014

Deep-Sea Explorer & UCSB Alumnus Ballard Gives Talk

By Hannah Nelson

Dr. Robert Ballard, one of today’s most well-known explorers of the deep sea, spoke at a packed Campbell Hall yesterday afternoon as the keynote speaker for UCSB’s eighth annual All Gaucho Reunion.

February 27, 2014

Curiouser and Curiouser: Last Lecturer Shares His Story

By Hannah Nelson

Last night, linguistics professor Robert Kennedy lectured as if it were his last chance to do so, speaking on linguistics and his own personal experiences in the field, as part of the UCSB “Last Lecture” series.

February 14, 2014

Just Do HIIT

By Hannah Nelson

It’s week six, which means midterms have descended upon UCSB. Plundering our precious reserves of brainpower, they have left us under-caffeinated, stripped of time, and quite possibly tempted to skip our workouts. That...

February 13, 2014

Speak, Dance, Sing, Save The World: Change For Change

By Hannah Nelson

Student-Run Open Mic Night To Raise Funds, Awareness For Variety of Charitable Causes UCSB’s Residential and Community Living and the Hub are sponsoring a night of performances tonight to raise money for multiple chari...

February 3, 2014

A.S. Events This Week Inform Students About Debt

By Hannah Nelson, Dustin Chan

Students will have a chance at scoring some cost-free Ramen noodles at the Arbor today, as part of a series of events this week called “Week of Revenue,” which aims to provide students with education on student debt ...

January 30, 2014

UCSB Rates Among Best Valued Colleges

By Hannah Nelson, Leon Freyermuth

UCSB ranked number 18 in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 2014 list of the top 100 “Best Values in Public Colleges” after a combined analysis of the university’s education and economic value.

January 17, 2014

The Not-So-Sweet Truth About Sugar: 10 Ways It’s Ruining Your College Experience

By Hannah Nelson

January 10, 2014

Annual Butterflies Continue to Migrate into Goleta Grove

By Hannah Nelson, Andrew Myers

Until the first or second week of February, thousands of brightly colored monarch butterflies will continue to descend upon Goleta to find refuge in the Goleta Butterfly Grove. The grove is located on Hollister Avenue an...

January 8, 2014

Shi’s the Man: Researchers Collaborate with ERI Alum

By Hannah Nelson

UCSB’s Earth Research Institute has been measuring changes in cloud formations, land masses and ocean currents for years, but now the organization is collaborating with the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Scienc...

November 26, 2013

Doctor Who? A Look Into Pre-Med Competition

By Hannah Nelson

A breeze spiraled through the air, palm trees framed an ocean glittering in the distance, and second-year biology major William Tobolowsky sat at a glass table on the third floor of the Life Sciences Building, ardently r...

November 19, 2013

UCSB Students Take On Santa Barbara International Marathon and Half Marathon

By Hannah Nelson

“At the eleventh mile, there was this long steep hill. Oh my god, my legs were barely moving. Then after the hill, I just started booking it.” Second-year biology major Emily McGovern had never run a half marathon b...

November 19, 2013

Health Officials Warn of Meningitis Surfacing on Campus

By Hannah Nelson

After two UCSB students were diagnosed with meningococcal disease, a bacterial infection that causes the highly contagious illnesses meningitis and meningococcemia, the Santa Barbara Department of Public Health is now pu...

November 14, 2013

New Student Fitness Group Offers Weekly Workouts

By Hannah Nelson

Nexus Asst. News Editor Hannah Nelson talks about her experience working out with SB Fitness. The group meets every Saturday for beach runs, aerobics and plyometrics.