Vanessa Angiuli

January 20, 2012

Rehabilitative Program Strengthens Family Bonds

By Vanessa Angiuli

Several Santa Barbara County juvenile detention facilities have joined the “Baby Elmo” program, which helps young incarcerated parents develop and maintain relationships with their children while serving their senten...

January 19, 2012

UCSB Engineer to Receive Honors

By Vanessa Angiuli

The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce named Chemical Engineering Professor Frank Doyle Innovator of the Year this week for his work on artificial pancreas technology. Doyle collaborated with medical professionals and typ...

January 17, 2012

UCR Students Unveil Unique Payment Plan

By Vanessa Angiuli

A group of UC Riverside students will present a financial plan to alleviate student debt and curb tuition hikes throughout the university system at this week’s Board of Regents meeting at the Riverside campus. The “F...

November 22, 2011

Nature Groups Combine to Conserve Local Trails

By Vanessa Angiuli

Four of Santa Barbara’s trail organizations have collaborated to form the Santa Barbara Outdoor Volunteers program for local residents to collectively organize trail maintenance projects throughout the county. The Sant...

November 10, 2011

Students Construct New Online Marketplace

By Vanessa Angiuli

Three UCSB students created the free website Swaapr.com as a medium for university students to barter various goods, lessons and ideas. Fourth-year anthropology major Christian DeHoyos, third-year computer science major ...

November 9, 2011

Professor Compiles Satirical Play Book

By Vanessa Angiuli

UCSB French Professor and Theater Historian Jody Enders translated a dozen 15th and 16th century satirical plays from their original French transcriptions into English for a book depicting medieval European life. “The ...

November 9, 2011

City Officials Move to Enforce Tsunami Protocol

By Vanessa Angiuli

Santa Barbara City officials recently submitted a “TsunamiReady City” application to the National Weather Service for approval by early 2012. The city achieved a “StormReady” classification in August 2009 — des...

October 31, 2011

SB Shelter Copes with Budget Cuts

By Vanessa Angiuli

Santa Barbara’s Transition House is scrambling to raise $40,000 by Nov. 15 to compensate for an unexpected budget cut in their Infant Care Center department. The support center provides shelter, housing and other servi...

October 25, 2011

Local Business To Hold Contest

By Vanessa Angiuli

Isla Vista’s Coffee Collaborative will host a pumpkin-carving contest tomorrow from 1 to 5 p.m. to judge sculpted squashes in several categories and award various prizes to those which have been chiseled to perfection....

October 24, 2011

Officials Prepare for Halloween Weekend

By Vanessa Angiuli

The Goleta City Council met with local authorities during last Tuesday’s meeting to discuss preparatory measures for the upcoming Halloween weekend celebration in Isla Vista. Redevelopment Agency, Neighborhood Services...

October 7, 2011

UC System To Settle Union Negotiations, Increase Pay

By Vanessa Angiuli

The American Federation of Teachers and UC Office of the President reached a tentative three-year agreement on Tuesday to secure benefits and merit-based wages for more than 350 librarians throughout the University of Ca...

October 3, 2011

CEO Kickstarts Global Efforts

By Vanessa Angiuli

TOMS Shoes founder and CEO Blake Mycoskie spoke at the Arlington Theater on Saturday to discuss his company’s brand of socially responsible entrepreneurship and encourage similar humanitarian efforts. Hosted by UCSB Ar...

September 30, 2011

Entrepeneur Endorses Social Efforts

By Vanessa Angiuli

TOMS shoes founder Blake Mycoskie will speak this Saturday at the Arlington Theater about social entrepreneurship and business-minded humanitarian efforts as part of the university’s ongoing Arts & Lectures series....

September 26, 2011

Researchers Find New Way to Detect Cancer Cells

By Vanessa Angiuli

A UCSB research team published their findings outlining technology they developed that discriminates between cancerous and non-cancerous cells in bodily fluids in the latest issue of renowned research journal Proceedings...

September 26, 2011

New Study Relates Effects of Stereotypes with Uneasiness

By Vanessa Angiuli

UCSB doctoral psychology researcher Michael Mrazek and his team identified a link between the threat of stereotyping and mind-wandering in a study that will be featured in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. A...

September 22, 2011

Gaucho Brings Education to Youth in Ghana

By Vanessa Angiuli

UCSB graduate student Gary Haddow is extending his passion for education to Ghana’s Buduburam Liberian Refugee Camp, where he and two colleagues founded a free primary school that hopes to enroll 100 of the camp’s ch...