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UCSB Files Suits Against Amazon, Target and Others Over Alleged Exploitation of Intellectual Property

August 3, 2019 by

The documents credit three full-time UCSB professors with inventing the patents: James “Jim” Speck, Steven DenBaars and Shuji Nakamura.
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UC Announces Tentative Agreement With UPTE for Two New 5-Year Contracts

August 3, 2019 by

If ratified, the two contracts would be valid until fall 2024. 
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UC Regents Discuss Implementing Fixed Tuition Plan

July 30, 2019 by

According to Regent Lark Park, the issue came down to, “How do we fund the university we want?”
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Freshman Summer Start Program Expands to San Miguel Residence Hall

July 29, 2019 by

Students in FSSP have historically lived in San Nicolas Hall, and in recent years, have stayed in that hall for their entire first year. 
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Anthropology Professor Celebrates 32nd Consecutive Summer Traveling Across the World to Teach at UCSB

July 27, 2019 by

Kundu’s first official quarter teaching at UCSB was the winter of 1988. He hasn’t stopped since.
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UCSB Admission Rate Drops to 29.7%

July 26, 2019 by

Out of a pool of 176,695 applicants, 108,178 students were admitted as incoming freshmen across the nine UC campuses.
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Students Condemn UC and Chancellor Yang’s Involvement in Thirty Meter Telescope, Express Support for Native Hawaiians

July 22, 2019 by

Yang is the chair of the telescope's board of governors, a position he has held since 2007.
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Two Women Report Incidents of Fondling at Portola

July 18, 2019 by

The suspect is approximately 6 feet tall, has a “thinner build,” brown hair and was wearing a blue jacket at the time of the second incident. 
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Water Rescue Called In For Drunk Rafters, Aborted Shortly After Group Tows Themselves In

July 9, 2019 by

The individuals had been out in the ocean for approximately fifteen minutes before the water rescue was called in.
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New Initiative Aims To Address Basic Needs and College Affordability through Marijuana Cultivation Tax

July 5, 2019 by

UCSB students have rallied behind a new initiative calling for the redirection of a year-old cultivation tax, asking that the money collected from the tax be used to address college affordability.
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UCSB Teaching Assistant Under Fire From Colleagues, Students for Transphobic Tweets

July 2, 2019 by

The Twitter account, which features the T.A.'s photograph and name, contains hundreds of tweets and retweets espousing transphobic views.
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UC Gains $4 Million in Funding for Summer Financial Aid

June 28, 2019 by

Students who qualify can use the additional aid beginning this Summer Session A. 
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Two MCC Bathrooms To be Converted To All-Gender

June 27, 2019 by

Gary Lawrence, director of the University Center, said he hopes to have the signs installed by July 15. 
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2019-2020 A.S. Executives: A Look Ahead

June 25, 2019 by , , , and

The Nexus sat down with the five executives and asked them to speak about their plans for the upcoming year.
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UC Announces New Measures to Fortify Admissions Process

June 22, 2019 by

UC’s decision to reform its admission process arrives roughly three months after several universities across the U.S. were accused of using unfair backdoor methods to admit students.
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