Lisa Cooper

May 19, 2003

Letter Blows the Meal Plan Problem Out of Proportion

By Lisa Cooper

Is Nick Pasto serious in his column (Daily Nexus, "Don't Play Games With Students' Meals," May 16)? I agree that the food in both dining commons could be better, but to call it harmful and offensive? That's going a bit t...

September 27, 2002

ResNet Limits Platforms

By Lisa Cooper

ResNet has ordered a preemptive strike against a dangerous piece of software loose on the residential network: Windows 2000. Windows 2000 was "primarily responsible for hundreds of major problems" last year along with Wi...

May 6, 2002

UCSB Hosts Science Outreach Program

By Lisa Cooper

Some people have no idea how cool kelp sugar beads are, but students who participated in the third annual Science and Technology Day at UCSB do.

April 18, 2002

UCSB Research Tops Rankings

By Lisa Cooper

Researchers at UCSB have scored yet another point in the continuing battle against the university's party school image. Several UCSB programs and departments were ranked highly by a U.S. News and World Report list releas...

April 4, 2002

UCen Offers New Wireless Connections

By Lisa Cooper

Students can now take their laptops into the hub at the University Center, sit down in their favorite comfy chair, and be instantly connected to the Internet by way of the hub's new wireless AirPort.

April 2, 2002

CEOs Speak at Annual ‘Entreprenuership 101’ Conference

By Lisa Cooper

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management held its annual Entrepreneurship 101 conference in Corwin Pavilion on Saturday, March 9.

February 21, 2002

Researchers Design Tools to Aid Computer Development

By Lisa Cooper

Researchers at universities across the country, including UCSB professors Kwang-Ting Tim Cheng and Malgorzata Marek-Sadoska, are developing tools to make designing and testing integrated circuits easier.

February 6, 2002

Gevirtz School Faculty Enjoy Wireless Life

By Lisa Cooper

Faculty in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education recently ended a pilot program in which faculty used wireless email and other applications for popular handheld computers called Personal Digital Assistants.

February 4, 2002

Researchers Develop Anti-Intrusion System

By Lisa Cooper

A computer system designed by UCSB researchers may make computer network intrusion as easy to detect as computer viruses - once it is implemented in the next five to 10 years.

January 18, 2002

Researchers Invent, Test New Vaccine

By Lisa Cooper

Biology Professors David Low, Robert Sinsheimer and Michael Mahan, post-doctoral researcher Douglas Heithoff and research scientist Steven Julio have created a vaccine that defends against multiple salmonella strains.

November 30, 2001

UCSB Science Professor Receives Award, Grant for Further Research

By Lisa Cooper

Atac Imamoglu, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. and the Physics Dept., received the Wolfgang Paul Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany on Nov. 6.

November 26, 2001

CCS Offers Faster M.S. Degree for CS Students

By Lisa Cooper

A program within the College of Creative Studies is helping computer science majors earn their master's as part of a five-year program and has so far enrolled two students.

November 7, 2001

Job Fair Offers Opportunities to UCSB Engineering Students

By Lisa Cooper

Over 1,200 students crowded into one giant tent yesterday as the College of Engineering held its fifth annual Fall Science and Technical Career Fair on Wednesday.

November 6, 2001

Music Industry Busts ResNet Users

By Lisa Cooper

The Record Industry Association has been notifying students on campuses nationwide who have been caught illegally sharing music files through programs such as Morpheus and Aimster to cease their activities.

October 19, 2001

ResNet, U-mail Take Anti-Virus Measures

By Lisa Cooper

Though computer viruses plague UCSB student computer networks on and off campus, network technicians are providing services to help students protect themselves.

October 12, 2001