Nadia Ismail

February 20, 2008

UCSB Loses Tobacco Co. Grant

By Nadia Ismail

Tobacco company Philip Morris USA, Incorporated has awarded over $16 million in combined grants for tobacco-related research to seven UC campuses - although UCSB is no longer attached to such funding.

January 31, 2008

UCSB Events Focus on Green Issues

By Nadia Ismail

In a bid to face the challenges global warming poses to planet Earth, UCSB - in conjunction with over 1,000 other campuses around the country - will begin a series of events today to discuss possible solutions.

January 24, 2008

Alert System To Aid in Campus Safety

By Nadia Ismail

In order to avoid confusion during a possible campus-wide emergency - like the events that occurred at Virginia Tech - the university has brought the UCSB Alert system online.

January 16, 2008

Award-Winning Author Lectures at Campbell Hall

By Nadia Ismail

From intersex characters to teenage suicide, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides shared his varied sources of inspiration and personal approaches to writing during an exclusive discussion before his lecture i...

January 14, 2008

RA Info Meetings To Finish This Week

By Nadia Ismail

Scores of students hoping for free room and board next year are aiming to join the ranks of the Office of Residential Life & Housing resident assistants for the round-the-clock job.

January 8, 2008

San Diego Business’ New Custom Cruisers To Send Gaucho Pride Mobile

By Nadia Ismail

The Collegiate Bicycle Company has added UCSB to the ranks of various universities and greek organizations that have adopted bicycles as a new means of flaunting school pride.

November 26, 2007

Grant To Create Database of Reserve’s Wildlife

By Nadia Ismail

Student birdwatchers and university ecologists alike will soon receive a more in-depth account of the local estuary thanks to a recent allocation of $4,000 to the Devereux Slough Monitoring Program.

November 15, 2007

Daily Bruin Inquiry of Selection Shows Alleged Misconduct

By Nadia Ismail

The University of California, Los Angeles, has become the center of controversy this week after an article published in the campus newspaper alleged favoritism and bribery in regard to admission for the school's highly c...

October 30, 2007

Provocative Art Exhibit Focuses on Human Body as Medium

By Nadia Ismail

Coverage of art exhibit, “I am the Medium.” The article on the art exhibit can be viewed here.

October 30, 2007

Provocative Art Exhibit Focuses on Human Body as Medium

By Nadia Ismail

In her video, Dutch artist Mathilde ter Heijne throws an effigy of herself over a bridge as a symbol of empowerment through staged suicide.

October 23, 2007

Doctor Starts Series of Holocaust Lectures

By Nadia Ismail

Today marks the first in a series of lectures addressing the Holocaust by honoring noted Nazi opposition leader and Santa Barbara resident George J. Wittenstein.