Kaitlin Cuskey

August 27, 2015

UCSB Researcher Receives NASA Grant for Space Research on Interstellar Travel

By Kaitlin Cuskey

UC Santa Barbara physics professor, Phillip Lubin, and his team from UCSB’s Experimental Cosmology Group have been awarded one of 15 proof-of-concept grants from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts to further develop the...

January 15, 2015

Size Matters: Smaller Fish and Endangered Reefs

By Kaitlin Cuskey

UC Santa Barbara research biologist Jenn Caselle recently published a study revealing the importance of and threats to the California sheephead fish (Semicossyphus pulcher) in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems. Casel...

November 10, 2014

Exploring I.V. Through a Cop’s Eyes During the ‘Fall Offensive’

By Kaitlin Cuskey

As the first weekend after Halloween and the last weekend of “Fall Orientation” for the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP), this past Friday marked a period in which IVFP and the UCSB Police Department, Goleta Police Depa...

October 30, 2014

History of Halloween in I.V.

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Examining Halloween’s recent evolution in Isla Vista, suspicion and uneasiness towards authority paired with extensive rules and restrictions and constraint have led to rising contentions between police and civilians, ...

October 7, 2014

I.V. Food Co-op and A.S. Food Bank Host Community Potluck

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The Isla Vista Food Co-op teamed up with the Associated Students Food Bank to host a community dinner potluck on the Co-op courtyard this past Friday. The potluck kicked off A.S. Food Bank’s “Hunger Month,” a month...

October 2, 2014

Annual Festival Advocates Food for the SOL

By Kaitlin Cuskey

This year’s fifth-annual Sustainable, Organic and Local (SOL) Food Festival brought live music, contests, cooking demonstrations and an array of local food vendors to Vera Cruz Park in downtown Santa Barbara this pa...

September 25, 2014

UC Board of Regents To Sponsor Technologically Innovative Projects

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The University of California Board of Regents approved a $250 million investment to fund UC research-based economic endeavors, entitled UC Ventures, during last Wednesday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay C...

August 27, 2014

Santa Barbara County Launches I.V. Restoration Plan

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Students returning to Isla Vista this fall will find some typically non-existent or run-down sidewalks newly constructed and repaired thanks to a Santa Barbara County renovation project that aims to improve I.V. infrastr...

April 9, 2014

Snowy Plovers Cuddling Up For Start of Nesting Season

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Spring is a time of renewal, and as our university community enters a fresh spring quarter, our beach cohabitants, the Western Snowy Plover, also embark on a period of transition with the start of a new nesting season be...

November 15, 2013

American University Professor Jane Flax Explores Foucault’s Self-Care Ideas

By Kaitlin Cuskey

AmericanUniversity professor Jane Flax gave a talk yesterday entitled “Soul Service: The Politics and Ethics of Practicing Michel Foucault’s Care of the Self,” as part of the InterdisciplinaryHumanitiesCenter’s s...

October 30, 2013

Local Tribe To Withdraw Application for More Land

By Kaitlin Cuskey

In response to public uproar over the Chumash Tribe’s attempt to acquire additional public land through an application submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), tribal chairman Vincent Armenta informed t...

September 30, 2013

Santa Barbara County Planning Commission Approves Oil Wells

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Last week, the Santa Barbara Planning Commission approved an oil development and pipeline project, along with an environmental impact report allowing for a 29 percent carbon emissions threshold for Santa Maria Energy.

September 19, 2013

Local Tribe Applies for Land; SB County Moves to Appeal

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Members of the Chumash tribe of the Santa Ynez Valley are currently seeking to acquire over 11,000 acres of non-reservation land, engaging Santa Barbara County officials in a land battle that may set an important legal p...

May 30, 2013

Dance Troupe Tours New York, Italy, Returns to UCSB

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The season finale of the UCSB Dance Company’s spring tour “Trajectory” will be showing tonight at the Center Stage for the Paseo Nuevo Center in downtown Santa Barbara. The company, a group of 13 senior dance major...

May 28, 2013

Politics, Money and Muscles: Researching the Link Between Physical Strength and Motives

By Kaitlin Cuskey

UCSB researchers recently found an evolutionary link between political motivation and physical strength in males, where increased upper body size indicated a more aggressive and self-serving stance toward resource redist...

May 23, 2013

UCensation Festival Offers Free Food, Live Music Today

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The University Center, Associated Students Program Board and Ice Skating Club are teaming up to host the first annual UCensation springtime concert and festival at the Lagoon Lawn. The free event will kick off at noon an...