Max Fernbacher

April 6, 2017

For the Love of the Game: UCSB Club Baseball

By Max Fernbacher

Off to a hot 7-1 and 4-1 conference start, the UCSB club baseball team is looking to shock many as it has made its way into the national club rankings. Staff writer Max Fernbacher shows his appreciation for the Gauchos' ...

September 29, 2016

Leaving Home: A Soldier, a Student and a Lesson on Self Discovery

By Max Fernbacher

Max Fernbacher shares side-by-side profiles of two very different individuals at the same stage in life.

October 26, 2015

Alumnus and Former NASA Astronaut José Hernández Honored at Dream Luncheon

By Max Fernbacher

  UC Santa Barbara’s 2015 Distinguished Alumnus and former NASA astronaut José Hernández was honored Saturday during the Dream Luncheon for his career and support for youth S.T.E.M. education in the Stockton, Ca...

May 26, 2015

New Storage Service To Assist On-Campus Residents

By Max Fernbacher

The student-run storage service company known as BoxCamp will offer summer storage and delivery for UC Santa Barbara students moving out of on-campus residence halls during the last two weeks of Spring Quarter.

February 13, 2015

County Board of Supervisors, Sheriff’s Dept. Enact Deltopia Noise Ordinance

By Max Fernbacher

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors granted a request from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday for the issuing of noise ordinances during the first two weekends of April in hopes of preventing D...

November 21, 2014

Goleta Ice Skating Facility Breaks Ground

By Max Fernbacher

The Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association (GSBISA) broke ground Thursday afternoon on “Ice in Paradise,” an ice skating arena located near Girsh Park in Goleta, CA.

October 30, 2014

County Approves Fencing Project

By Max Fernbacher

The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission voted unanimously yesterday in support of fencing six public parks that line the bluffs of Isla Vista.

October 7, 2014

UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura Wins Nobel

By Peter Mounteer, Max Fernbacher

Materials professor Shuji Nakamura was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, together with Japanese colleagues Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano.

October 7, 2014

UCPD Releases Past Year’s Campus Crime Statistics

By Max Fernbacher

Last Wednesday, University of California Police Department released its annual crime statistics report as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. The report, for...

June 25, 2014

Athletic Director Leaves UCSB

By Max Fernbacher

Athletic Director Mark Massari, who has overseen the athletics department for the past six years, announced last Wednesday he would be leaving UCSB to become the deputy athletics director at Oregon State University.

June 5, 2014

TA Union Cancels Strike

By Max Fernbacher

The University of California reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers yesterday, a labor union that represents more than 12,000 academic student employees at the nine UC campuses.

May 30, 2014

Safe & Sound: Isla Vista Plans to Improve Public Safety

By Max Fernbacher

The Associated Students Public Safety Commission held a public safety meeting in Isla Vista Theater yesterday where attendees discussed ways to improve safety and quality of life in Isla Vista.

May 29, 2014

Thousands Attend Paddle-Out

By Max Fernbacher

Thousands of students and Isla Vista residents gathered on the beach below Manzanita Village for an Isla Vista Paddle-Out Memorial yesterday evening.

May 28, 2014

Anti-Sexual Violence Group Holds Concert

By Max Fernbacher

The first annual #UCSBFightingSexualViolence benefit concert featured a variety of musical performances from students and local musicians this past Saturday at the Theater and Dance building, with all proceeds going to t...

May 23, 2014

ShadowMaps Wins New Venture Competition

By Max Fernbacher

The Technology Management Program’s New Venture Competition Finals awarded $10,000 to a team of graduate students yesterday at Corwin Pavilion for their business start-up ShadowMaps, an application using cloud-based GP...

May 20, 2014

Bren School Gives Lecture Series on Current Drought Situation

By Max Fernbacher

Faculty members from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management along with Goleta Water District officials will present the first lecture of a three-part series about California’s current drought condition...