UC Briefs: April 6,2003

April 6, 2004 by

University of California President Richard Dynes announced his selection of a finalist for the chancellor position at UC San Diego 10 days before he planned due to a news leak.
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North Tower Reopens After Renovations

April 5, 2004 by

Francisco Torres residents switched towers last week and found slightly smaller rooms and more complicated toilets waiting on the other side. Work was recently completed on FT's North Tower, which has...
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Math Professor Gets Sizeable Sum

April 1, 2004 by

A distinguished visiting UCSB professor received a mathematics prize on March 30 comparable to the Nobel Prize-at least in terms of the prize money. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarde...
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Tools Drop From Crane Top

March 30, 2004 by

Two budding Isaac Newtons, aged 11 and 14, conducted their own gravitational experiments from the top of a 115-foot crane on campus for more than an hour before firefighters brought the youngsters bac...
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Top Student Chosen for Prestigious Grant

March 5, 2004 by

After receiving a prestigious fellowship, the top student in this year's senior class of electrical engineers will only have to worry about half his tuition when he continues on to graduate school.
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Isla Vista Attack Claims Life of SBCC Student

March 3, 2004 by

An assault Saturday night in Isla Vista left one Santa Barbara City College student dead and another being held at the Santa Barbara County Jail.
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Rain Drives Groundbreaking Indoors

March 2, 2004 by

As campus leaders gathered Monday to break ground on a new academic building, the only thing missing was the ground. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Psychology Building addition was moved from the...
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Science Grant To Expand Pathways, Minds

March 2, 2004 by

UCSB will use some of a $2 million grant to throw the coolest science slumber party ever. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCSB announced Feb. 26 it had received the grant from the Natio...
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Campus Wolfs Down Film on Price of Lupine Liberty

February 27, 2004 by

A film showing tonight will bring a heated environmental debate from the wilderness of Idaho to the screen at Campbell Hall. "Cost of Freedom" follows wolves relocated from Canada to Idaho as part of ...
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Error | Self-Titled | Epitaph

February 26, 2004 by

How hard is it to describe how this record sounds? Well, the first draft of this review included the word "morphy." Guitarist Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, synth-programmer Atticus Ross of Nine Inch...
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SB Hosts Spring Speaker Series

February 18, 2004 by

A new lecture series will teach UC a different way of thinking about sustainability. The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP) will bring renowned authors and environmentalists to five UC ca...
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Probot | Probot | Southern Lord

February 12, 2004 by

Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters spent a few years putting together an album's worth of metal tunes, then recruited such all-stars as Lemmy from Motorhead, Cronos from Venom and Max Calavera of ...
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Union May Get Thousands of UC Employees

February 10, 2004 by

On Wednesday the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) will send ballots to administrative professionals throughout the UC system offering the choice between the status quo of no represe...
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University Says Thanks a Million, Michael Douglas

February 3, 2004 by

Academy Award-winning actor and UCSB alumnus Michael Douglas contributed $1 million toward the construction of a new Center for Film, Television and New Media, the university announced Monday.
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Film Examines Life of Famous Architect

January 28, 2004 by

The maker of a film showing at Campbell Hall tonight toured the globe visiting the works of one of the 20th century's greatest architects, not only to study the buildings themselves, but also to disco...
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