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April 15, 2014

UCSB Professor Explores Effects of Hidden Shame

By Dustin Chan

UCSB Sociology professor Thomas Scheff published an examination on the topic of hidden shame in an article released in a February issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Cultural Sociology.

April 15, 2014

Pardall Center Welcomes Students to Open House

By Kelly Lin

Associated Students will be hosting an open house of the A.S. Pardall Center this Thursday to showcase its newly renovated details and services, which are open to all students.

April 14, 2014

A.S. Election Campaigns Ravage UCSB Campus

By Aditya Tadanki

Active campaigning for the upcoming A.S. elections officially began yesterday and will continue for the next two weeks.

April 14, 2014

Prolonged Drought Calls for Conservation Measures

By Aditya Tadanki

As California's drought stretches into its third consecutive year, an increasing number of officials are calling for more conservation measures.

April 14, 2014

Holi Participants Celebrate Spring Season With Color at Campus Point

By Jackson Kerr

Nearly 1,000 students flocked to Campus Point yesterday to celebrate Holi, the South Asian Festival of Colors.

April 14, 2014

Summer Program to Train UCSB Brains

By Jimmy Chang

A psychological fitness summer program will soon be offered to students.

April 11, 2014

UCSB Club Hosts Indian Dance Competition

By Brittany Tholan

Eight of the top Indian dance teams in the nation are coming to Santa Barbara to participate in Nachle Deewane, the first-ever Bollywood and Bhangra competition.

April 11, 2014

A.S. Senators Discuss Deltopia, Misallocated Funding

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

At Wednesday night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, senators and executive officers first discussed continuing efforts to deal with the ramifications of Deltopia and then voted to correct a mistake made in a previ...

April 11, 2014

Doreen Farr Discusses Deltopia

By Carissa Quiambao

The Daily Nexus sat with Santa Barbara County 3rd District Supervisor Doreen Farr to discuss the County’s reaction to last weekend’s Deltopia riots. During the interview Farr revealed that the surveillance cameras on...

April 11, 2014

UCSB Tennis Coach Opens Up About Coming Out

By Jessy Diamba

Head coach of the UCSB women’s tennis team Simon Thibodeau sat down with the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) on Wednesday to talk about his experience coming out in the hyper-masculine world of ...

April 11, 2014

UCSB Research Group Analyzes Brazilian Coastline

By Elliott Wright

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), a UCSB-based research institution formed in 1995 funded by the National Science Foundation, recently created the first regionally assessed Ocean Health I...

April 10, 2014

Deltopia Clean-Up Restores Faith in I.V.

By Emani Oakley

In a coordinated effort with Adopt-a-Block, over 300 students organized on Sunday to clean the streets of Isla Vista after a day of Deltopia festivities.

April 10, 2014

Veterans Fight for More Resources at UCSB

By David Jackson

It’s been nearly six months since former Special Forces soldier and current UCSB biology student Paul Malone embarked on his most recent mission to improve and expand the limited services offered to veterans on campus....

April 10, 2014

Isla Vistans Discuss Deltopia Riots

By Daniel Slovinsky

While 91 percent of the citations and arrests made during Saturday’s Deltopia riot did not involve UCSB students, the campus has received waves of negative media attention in the past week, causing members of the Isla ...

April 10, 2014

Acclaimed Comedic Author to Read at UCSB

By Brittany Tholan

Award-winning author and Columbia University professor Gary Shteyngart will perform a free public reading from his latest memoir, Little Failure, tonight at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.

April 10, 2014

Professor Wins Award, Grant

By Heeba Kaleem

Biochemistry assistant professor Irene Chen has recently been selected for the Searle Scholar Award, an annual prize given to just 15 scholars nationwide, making Chen the third faculty member at UCSB to receive the award...