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May 24, 2014

Seven Killed in Isla Vista Shooting Spree

By Marissa Wenzke

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown confirmed six people were killed during multiple drive-by shootings Friday night in Isla Vista, with the suspect also dying from gunshot wounds, and seven victims now being hospita...

May 23, 2014

Multiple Shootings in Isla Vista

By Staff Report

[Update: Police have now confirmed a total of seven fatalities and thirteen injured and more information is coming in continuously. Check here for the latest information.] At least one unidentified suspect traveling in a...

May 23, 2014

Student Regent Nominee Revealed

By Peter Mounteer, Aditya Tadanki

Former Internal Vice President and third-year economics major at UCLA Avi Oved recently received the nomination to be the 41st University of California Student Regent for the 2015-2016 school year.

May 23, 2014

SJP Hosts Annual Palestinian Culture Night

By Miranda Durr

Students for Justice in Palestine celebrated the third-annual Palestinian Culture Night with a myriad of Palestinian dishes, presentations and live performances at the MultiCultural Center last night. The event featured ...

May 23, 2014

ShadowMaps Wins New Venture Competition

By Max Fernbacher

The Technology Management Program’s New Venture Competition Finals awarded $10,000 to a team of graduate students yesterday at Corwin Pavilion for their business start-up ShadowMaps, an application using cloud-based GP...

May 22, 2014

Students, Organizations Honored in Awards Ceremony

By Peter Mounteer

Representatives from some one hundred student organizations were honored in the 28th annual Leadership and Activities Awards ceremony recognizing the achievements of individuals and student organizations in the Student R...

May 22, 2014

Student Protesters Take D.C.

By Josh Fiacco

Dozens of UC students protested the leadership of UC President Janet Napolitano Monday at the UCDC Center in Washington D.C., where she met with UC graduates and 14 selected students at a special alumni event.

May 22, 2014

Senators Amend Student Lobby, Swear in Execs

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

Last night, students identifying as members of Coalition for Survivors silently protested the last Associated Students Senate meeting for the 2013-2014 academic school year, during which senators passed a controversial r...

May 22, 2014

UCSB Hosts Finals For New Venture Competition

By Aditya Tadanki

Six finalists will present their business plans and investor pitches at the Technology Management Program’s 2014 New Venture Competition today at 3 p.m. in Corwin Pavilion.

May 21, 2014

CHG and USGS Develop Digital Rainfall Monitor

By Kevin Soto-Ciriaco

The UCSB Climate Hazards Group collaborated with the U.S. Geological Survey to create a single, comprehensive database of precipitation patterns to monitor droughts worldwide.

May 21, 2014

Lecture Discusses Ethnic Issues in Penal System

By Emani Oakley

Associate professor of history at UCLA Kelly Lytle Hernandez gave a presentation tracing the history and reasons behind the mass incarceration of people of Mexican descent in the United States last night at the MultiCult...

May 21, 2014

Two Professors Win Bellagio Residency

By Staff Report

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center recently awarded professors Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein a space in the prestigious Bellagio Residency Fellows program in Italy, where they will write a book to...

May 21, 2014

California’s Drought Problem Discussed in Talk

By Julia Govan

UCSB Bren School professor and water policy expert Robert Wilkinson addressed California’s water resources and drought actions Tuesday night in a lecture titled “California’s Water Resources and Our Drought.”

May 21, 2014

Sex Talk Covers Consent, Ethics, Law

By Heeba Kaleem

Former World Health Organization advisor and UCLA professor Paul R. Abramson spoke about the individual sexual rights of children and adults Monday night at Harold Frank Hall.

May 21, 2014

Supreme Leader of Nexus Arises

By Peter Mounteer, Aditya Tadanki

The Daily Nexus editorial staff elected former news editor Carissa Quiambao as editor in chief for the 2014-2015 academic year in an office-wide election last Thursday.

May 20, 2014

Bren School Gives Lecture Series on Current Drought Situation

By Max Fernbacher

Faculty members from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management along with Goleta Water District officials will present the first lecture of a three-part series about California’s current drought condition...