Megan Mineiro

April 1, 2015

Regents Discuss Mental Health, Faculty Focus, Transfers, More

By Supriya Yelimeli, Cheryl Sun, Megan Mineiro

The UC Board of Regents continued their meeting of March 18 and 19 and opened with the Committee on Long Range Planning for the University of California mental health funding, during an afternoon session of the Regents m...

March 31, 2015

UC Regents Discuss Various Initiatives, Enrollment Freeze

By Megan Mineiro, Cheryl Sun

The UC Board of Regents meeting continued the morning of March 18 with open sessions in the Committee of the Whole and the Committee on Finance, while the Committee on Grounds and Buildings and Committee on Long Range Pl...

March 30, 2015

Regents Discuss Audits, IT Security, Medical Centers

By Megan Mineiro, Cheryl Sun, Supriya Yelimeli

The UC Board of Regents met during finals week amidst ongoing negotiations between California Governor Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano over state funding for the University of California.

March 3, 2015

Bill To Decriminalize Homelessness Introduced to State Senate

By Megan Mineiro

State Senator Carol Liu introduced the Right to Rest Act (SB 608) to the California State Senate on Friday to decriminalize the homeless by giving them access to public spaces without discrimination.

February 20, 2015

Sheriff Releases Report Detailing Events, Investigation of 2014 I.V. Mass Murder

By Megan Mineiro, Supriya Yelimeli

On Thursday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s office released its final investigative summary report on the Isla Vista mass murder that left six UCSB students dead and another 14 injured on May 23, 2014.

February 4, 2015

Art Professor Shares Images of Jailed Youth as First Event of UCSB Reads 2015

By Megan Mineiro

Art professor and photographer Richard Ross spoke about his newly published book Girls in Justice as well as his work documenting incarcerated youth in detention facilities across the country Tuesday night at Davidson Li...

January 13, 2015

UC Student Regent-Designate Meets With Students

By Megan Mineiro

UC Student Regent for the 2014-15 school year Sadia Saifuddin and UC Student Regent-designate for the 2015-16 school year Abraham “Avi” Oved met with students on campus at the Student Resource Building today to discu...

January 8, 2015

UCSB Named Greenest Public University in U.S.

By Megan Mineiro

UCSB recently placed third on Online Schools Center’s list of the “Top 50 Green Schools,” coming in behind American University and Dickinson College and making it the top-ranked public university nationwide.

December 3, 2014

I.V.: A History — Part III

By Peter Mounteer, Megan Mineiro

The self-governance conversation came up again for Isla Vista when Goleta sought cityhood in 2001. However, the resulting proposal to include I.V. and the university in the incorporation plan was voted down by the Santa ...

December 2, 2014

Das Williams Introduces I.V. Self-Governance Bill

By Megan Mineiro

Assembly Bill 3, a bill aimed to create the Isla Vista Community Services District (CSD) in order provide infrastructure and services to the residents of I.V., was introduced to the California State Assembly yesterday by...

November 19, 2014

New Meningitis B Vaccine To Be Available at UCSB Soon

By Megan Mineiro

A new vaccine to protect against meningococcal serogroup B, Trumenba, became available yesterday for order through healthcare providers in the United States. A pre-order of Trumenba has already been placed by Student Hea...

October 30, 2014

Newsom, Williams and Capps Visit Campus

By Megan Mineiro

Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom addressed a crowd of students and community members yesterday at Storke Lawn as part of a rally hosted by Campus Democrats to encourage voting in next Tuesday’s upcoming midterm electio...

October 23, 2014

UCSB Alum Helps Restore Ranch House

By Megan Mineiro

On Monday, the university announced that alumna Linda Duttenhaver donated $2 million towards the restoration of a 1950s ranch house on Sedgwick Reserve which accommodates affiliated researchers from half of the approxima...

October 14, 2014

Project Fights to Slow Goleta Beach Erosion

By Megan Mineiro

The Goleta Beach Managed Retreat Project proposal, which aims to retain rock revetments installed in 2005, was resubmitted to the California Coastal Commission (CCC) on Sept. 29 for further review after initially failing...

October 9, 2014

UC Neuroscientists Secure $10m in Federal Funds

By Megan Mineiro

The National Institute of Health announced on Sept. 30 that University of California researchers have been awarded more than $10 million of the $46 million in grants given to laboratories across the country for neuroscie...