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February 12, 2015

Dept. of Sociology To Celebrate 50 Years of Grad Program

By Danny Kolosta

The Department of Sociology will host a research conference this Friday and Saturday to celebrate the graduate program’s 50th anniversary.

February 10, 2015

Finance and Business Committee Hears From Student Groups

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met Monday evening to address funding requests from 25 campus organizations and allocated full funding for 15 organizations, partial funding for nine, and refused fu...

February 8, 2015

National Academy of Engineering Awards UCSB Prof Membership

By Josh Ortiz

Chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) last week, a professional distinction that honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to engineerin...

February 6, 2015

Campaign Presents Panel of LGBTQ Students

By William Leiva

Gauchos Against Hate, a new campus-wide campaign that focuses on accepting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community, held an event at the Loma Pelona Center Thursday night that included a stude...

February 5, 2015

Senate Considers iClicker Rental

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum, Alyssa Schmidt

Associated Students gathered in the UCen to discuss topics such as reduced financial aid and an iClicker borrowing program

February 4, 2015

Art Professor Shares Images of Jailed Youth as First Event of UCSB Reads 2015

By Megan Mineiro

Art professor and photographer Richard Ross spoke about his newly published book Girls in Justice as well as his work documenting incarcerated youth in detention facilities across the country Tuesday night at Davidson Li...

February 4, 2015

Confucius Institute Presents First Lectures

By Shelly Lu

Two professors from McGill University and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies gave keynote lectures at the Mosher Alumni House to celebrate the opening of the Confucius Institute on campus yesterday.

February 3, 2015

UCSB Hosts Distinguished Guests For Opening of Confucius Institute

By Beth Lebens

UCSB’s Confucius Institute, an international establishment to promote the study of Chinese language, culture, history, science, politics and economics, held its opening ceremony Monday in McCune Hall.

February 3, 2015

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Entertains Funding Requests

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met Monday evening in the Flying A Room of the UCen and heard from 12 campus organizations looking to receive funding for events being held primarily in Spring Quart...

February 2, 2015

In Photos: Hundreds of Students Compete in 36-Hour Hackathon

By Daily Nexus Photography

On Friday, Jan. 30, over 500 participants from schools all over California competed in a 36-hour hackathon, the first annual one held in Corwin Pavilion and surrounding areas. Students designed and programmed unique proj...

February 2, 2015

UCSB Hackathon Draws Participants, Sponsors From Across State

By Juliet Bachtel, Addie Burk

Hundreds of students from across the state participated in SB Hacks’ first annual UCSB Hackathon on Sunday to showcase projects they worked on throughout the weekend and to compete for prizes The Hackathon took pla...

January 30, 2015

Organization Names UCSB as Hispanic Serving Intitution

By Peeka Zimmerman

University administrators announced Wednesday that UCSB has been named a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) due to the campus’ 25 percent Latino student p...

January 29, 2015

Senate Meeting Talks Lock-Ins, Supports IVTU

By Rachel Ann Reyes

The Associated Students Senate met in the Flying A Room at the UCen Wednesday night to discuss potential lock-in fees and resolutions including ones in support of President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community col...

January 29, 2015

SB Hacks To Host First Annual Coding Competition on Campus

By Shelly Lu

UCSB Hackathon, a 36-hour collaborative coding event for teams of computer science students from universities across the country, will attract an estimated 500 student attendees this weekend at the UCen in what event org...

January 28, 2015

Mary Jacob To Take Over for Michael Young

By Beth Lebens

Former Senior Associate Dean of Enrollment and Student Academic Programs and Wellness Services Mary Jacob will begin serving as acting Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs on Feb. 2 following former Vice Chancellor Michae...

January 28, 2015

MCC Discussion Examines Obama’s Deportations

By Erica Loera

Seasoned author and sociology professor at UC Merced Tanya Golash-Boza held a discussion on mass deportation and the racialized trends in immigrant law enforcement in the U.S. Tuesday night in the MultiCultural Center (...