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January 16, 2015

UCSB To Host Summit on Food Justice

By Patrick Guardian

The California Higher Education Food Summit, an intercollegiate event designed to spark discussion on food justice within the UC system, will be hosted on campus from Friday through Sunday this weekend.

January 15, 2015

UCSB Receives Record Amount of Student Applications

By Josh Ortiz

UCSB recorded its highest number of student applicants ever for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year this past Monday.

January 15, 2015

Senate Proposes Construction to A.S. Main Office

By Rachel Ann Reyes

The Associated Students Senate met in the Flying A Room at the UCen last night to discuss potential campus construction projects and issues surrounding A.S. Program Board member payment.

January 15, 2015

UCSB Receives Grant for Mental Health Services

By Peeka Zimmerman

Congresswoman Lois Capps announced that the university will receive a federal grant of roughly half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education (D.O.E.) to fund mental health services to address the increased...

January 15, 2015

BSU Holds Weeklong Event

By Danny Kolosta

Black Student Union (BSU) hosted “A Week of Education and Action” which began Monday and ends tomorrow to address issues regarding racism and police brutality on a local and national level.

January 14, 2015

UCSB Grad Student Jason Bennett Dies at 32

By Juliet Bachtel

Graduate student Jason Andrew Bennett, a fifth-year doctoral student in philosophy, died on Dec. 31 after committing suicide at age 32.

January 13, 2015

UC Student Regent-Designate Meets With Students

By Megan Mineiro

UC Student Regent for the 2014-15 school year Sadia Saifuddin and UC Student Regent-designate for the 2015-16 school year Abraham “Avi” Oved met with students on campus at the Student Resource Building today to discu...

January 13, 2015

Campus Remembers UCPD Officer

By Patrick Guardian

UCSB Police Department (UCPD) Sgt. Tony Borrayo died in the early hours of the morning while he was asleep at home with his family last Sunday on Jan. 4.

January 13, 2015

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Discusses Requests

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met in the State Street Room in the UCen on Monday evening to listen to and grant funding requests to various student organizations.

January 8, 2015

A.S. Senate Passes Salary Resolution, Talks Safety in I.V.

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

The Associated Students Senate held its first meeting of the new quarter yesterday evening in the Flying A Room at the UCen to discuss upcoming events and initiatives for Winter Quarter.

January 7, 2015

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Delegates Funds to Student Groups

By Cheryl Sun

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met in the State Street room in UCen last night to delegate funds to various student organizations at their first weekly meeting of winter quarter.

January 5, 2015

Nakamura Continues To Pick Up Accolades

By Peeka Zimmerman

Materials professor and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics Shuji Nakamura was named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) on Dec 16.

January 5, 2015

UCSB Professor Dies Over Winter Break

By Peter Mounteer

74-year-old materials professor Edward Kramer (far right) died in his sleep at his home in Santa Barbara on the morning of Dec 27.

December 5, 2014

Physics Professor Delivers Annual Faculty Research Lecture

By Lannhu Khuat

Professor of Physics and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics member Joe Polchinksi gave the annual Faculty Research Lecture Thursday night after being selected as the Faculty Research Lecturer in May, an honor that r...

December 2, 2014

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Hears Funding, Reallocation Requests

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee held its last meeting of the quarter on Monday in the UCen’s State Street Room, where they heard six requests for funding.

November 25, 2014

Associated Students Discuss Student Organization Financial Requests

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Student Finance and Business Committee met yesterday evening at the State Street Room in the UCen to hear requests from 18 student organizations for funding.