News

January 27, 2014

UC Calendar To Accommodate Jewish Holidays

By Elliott Wright

January 23, 2014

Regents Deliberate on Salaries, Transfer Support, Academic Calendar, Other Topics

By Carissa Quiambao

At yesterday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center, the University of California Board of Regents discussed the issue of sexual assault against women on UC campuses, salaries for UCSB basketba...

January 23, 2014

UC Students Petition Against 2014-15 Academic Calendar

By Elliott Wright

Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, the starting instruction date for any University of California campus with a quarter system will be bumped down to Oct. 2 to avoid conflict with the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Has...

January 23, 2014

Dave Barry Causes Santa Barbara To Erupt with Laughter

By Peter Mounteer

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and humorist Dave Barry spoke to a nearly sold out crowd of about 1,500 people last night at 8 p.m. at the Granada Theatre downtown, in a UCSB Arts & Lectures-sponsored performance entitled ...

January 23, 2014

A.S. Senate Focuses on Budgets, Deltopia, Other Projects

By David Jackson

Associated Students Senate met Wednesday night to review California’s state budget, discuss upcoming events for the quarter, such as Deltopia and examine food budgets for different campus Boards, Committees and Commiss...

January 23, 2014

Is Isla Vista Rent Too Damn High? A Closer Look Into Housing in I.V.

By Shannon Ham

With ‘For Rent’ signs slapped on almost every house or apartment in Isla Vista, thousands of students are now joining the annual housing rush that begins around the end of every Fall Quarter and beginning of every Wi...

January 23, 2014

Biology Professor Gains $1M Grant

By Kelly Lin

The W.M. Keck Foundation, a philanthropic organization which supports scientific research, has awarded UCSB Biology professor Denise Montell with a $1 million grant to further her research on anastasis, a process of cell...

January 23, 2014

I.V. Couple Arrested For Drug Hoard

By Staff Report

Law enforcement officials arrested an Isla Vista couple Friday for conspiring to sell drugs, after one pound of marijuana was discovered in a car owned by one of the individuals.

January 23, 2014

SB Foundation Aids Local GEM

By Aditya Tadanki

The Santa Barbara Foundation, a foundation established to improve the lives of community members through philanthropy, recently pledged $25,000 to the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet (GEM), a partnership between the Goleta...

January 23, 2014

Regents Meeting Reaches Into Plethora of Topics: Master Plan, Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussed

By Carissa Quiambao

During yesterday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center, the University of California Regents discussed the expected federal and state budgets for the UC next year, Chancellor Henry T. Yang’s...

January 22, 2014

CCS Lit May Receive Admissions Hold

By Marissa Wenzke

The UCSB Academic Senate is currently deciding whether or not the College of Creative Studies will be accepting applicants for the CCS Literature program for Fall 2014, as the Executive Vice Chancellor recently requested...

January 22, 2014

UCSB’s Prestige, Applicants Increase

By Jackson Kerr

Applications to the UC system have increased across the board and this year, UCSB received a record-breaking 80,893 freshman and transfer applicants.

January 22, 2014

Regents Meeting Today

By Staff Report

The UC Board of Regents will meet today at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center to discuss issues such as online education and the expected budgets for both federal and state funding to the UC next year, wi...

January 22, 2014

UCSB Joins Efforts to Stimulate Research, Product Development

By Emani Oakley

UCSB has recently become one of seven universities — along with 18 companies — to make up a new national public-private manufacturing consortium designed to stimulate the economy and American innovation, announced by...

January 22, 2014

The Art of Social Activism

By Cole Yamada

Renowned artist, current UC Davis professor and activist Malaquias Montoya gave a presentation last night at the MultiCultural Center Theater discussing his social activism-inspired artwork and giving an autobiographical...

January 21, 2014

Santa Barbara Leads the Way in UC Water Sustainability

By Jonathan Rogers

UC President Janet Napolitano announced the prospective goal of reducing the UC system’s water usage by 20 percent on Thursday, with plans of reaching this reduction goal by the year 2020.