Peter Mounteer

March 5, 2014

Egan Catches on Like Wildfire

By Peter Mounteer

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Timothy Egan gave an hour-long lecture adapted from his 2009 book The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America as the culminating event of the 2014 UCSB Reads...

February 12, 2014

A.S. Prepares for Election Season, Members Hold Informal Info Sessions

By Peter Mounteer

Associated Students elections are starting up already, with political parties beginning launching their online campaigning on Sunday.

February 5, 2014

Author Lusane Discusses Lack of Social Change

By Peter Mounteer

Award-winning author, lecturer, freelance journalist and professor at American University, Clarence Lusane, discussed the current socioeconomic condition of African Americans under the Obama administration in his lecture...

February 5, 2014

Suicide Awareness, Prevention Among Local University Students

By Peter Mounteer

Sixteen years ago, UCSB student Matthew DeMarco lost his 15-year-old half-brother to suicide and depression. Two years later, his father — a successful Los Angeles businessman — contracted a life-threatening illness ...

January 23, 2014

Dave Barry Causes Santa Barbara To Erupt with Laughter

By Peter Mounteer

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and humorist Dave Barry spoke to a nearly sold out crowd of about 1,500 people last night at 8 p.m. at the Granada Theatre downtown, in a UCSB Arts & Lectures-sponsored performance entitled ...

January 13, 2014

Lecture Brings Worldwide Wildlife to SB Stage

By Peter Mounteer

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore kicked off Arts & Lectures’ winter season yesterday at Campbell Hall with a lecture entitled “Close Encounters: Grizzlies, Piranhas and Man-eating Pigs” as part of the ...

January 8, 2014

Who’s Watching Your Keystrokes?

By Peter Mounteer

Internet Creeping Emerges As Potential Method of Evaluating Applicants in Competitive Job Market, College Admissions

January 6, 2014

UCSB Bans Smoking on Campus

By Peter Mounteer

The policy also prohibits smoking in personal vehicles if they are on university property, including parking lots and roadways, and eliminates any areas on UC campuses that have been previously designated as smoking area...

November 25, 2013

A.S. Calls For Drafting of New UC Master Plan

By Peter Mounteer

The Associated Students Senate recently unanimously passed a resolution to support the creation of a new California Master Plan for Higher Education in California, with the student government body requesting that the 53-...

November 18, 2013

United States Army Puts UCSB ROTC, 13 Others on Probation

By Peter Mounteer

The United States Army recently announced it is reversing its October 2 decision to close the UCSB Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, along with 12 other programs nationwide, and will instead place the pr...

November 13, 2013

Professor Discusses ‘Coded’ Racial Appeals

By Peter Mounteer

The Multicultural Center Theatre hosted a lecture by UC Berkeley Professor of Law Ian Haney-López on the “coded” racial appeals used by politicians to get voters to unconsciously support racially and economically di...

November 6, 2013

Phosphor Analysis Could Improve LED Efficiency

By Peter Mounteer

Researchers at the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center (SSLEC) and the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) recently announced a breakthrough in their computational research scheme for identifying highly efficient phos...

November 4, 2013

Graduates Granted National Science Foundation Award to Research Big Data

By Peter Mounteer

After receiving a $3 million Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT, award from the National Science Foundation, the UCSB Graduate Division will be enrolling Ph.D. candidates for a new five-yea...

October 24, 2013

UCSB Hosts Central Coast Sustainability Summit

By Peter Mounteer

On Wednesday, UCSB Sustainability held its third annual Central Coast Sustainability Summit from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Corwin Pavilion.

October 23, 2013

Summit Discusses Habitat Issues on the Central Coast

By Peter Mounteer

UCSB will host the 3rd Annual Central Coast Sustainability Summit at Corwin Pavilion today from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., addressing environmental issues that affect the Central Coast region.

October 17, 2013

Applications, Acceptances for Law Schools Decrease

By Peter Mounteer

Kaplan, Inc. recently conducted a survey revealing 54 percent of law school admissions officers have reportedly cut the number of students to be offered admission for the 2013-2014 school year.