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New Keystone Class Examines Immigrant Experiences

A newly offered senior capstone course at UCSB titled “Uncertainty Experiences Among Undocumented Immigrants in Santa Barbara County” explores the struggles implicit in the constant uncertainty ex...
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Engineers Create Instrument That Detects Molecules Through Smell

A team of scientists brought together through UCSB’s Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies recently engineered a device that biomimics a dog’s scent receptors in order to identify various mo...
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Flu Cases in SB Dwindle From Previous Year

Despite the Center for Disease Control and Prevention declaring the recent nationwide influenza outbreak to be one of the worst of the decade, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reports...
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President Yudof Steps Down

In the midst of the University of California’s struggle to overcome a host of budgetary challenges, University President Mark Yudof announced on Friday that he would step down and open the way for ...
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Homeland Security To Investigate Human Smuggling After Panga Boat Found In Goleta

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating the possibility of human smuggling after a 30-foot panga boat was found washed up on Goleta Beach last Friday morning. The fiberglass boat, wh...
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UCSB Boasts Increase In Diversity Through Minority Applicants

This year, UCSB received a record number of applicants — numbering 76,026 — and showed a 14 percent increase in the number of applications from underrepresented minority students, reflecting a nat...
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Carsey-Wolf Center Promotes Film Preservation Via Screenings

UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center will screen the 1950’s crime and drama film “The Hoodlum” tonight at 7 p.m. in the Pollock Theater as part of “The Future of the Past: The Art and Philosophy of Fil...
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Winter Career Fair To Offer Job, Networking Opportunities

UCSB’s Career Services is hosting their Winter Career Fair today at the University Center’s Corwin Pavilion, where students from all departments of the College of Engineering and the College of Le...
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Environmentalists Appeal for Further Preservation of Great Whites

Non-profit wildlife organizations Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity and Shark Stewards are seeking approval from the California Fish and Game Commission for a petition that would raise prote...
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Dome Will Be Loco for Blue-Green Rivalry

College basketball rivalries are synonymous with rocking gyms, rabid fans and exciting play. Throw in a televised game, and UC Santa Barbara’s match up against rival Cal Poly on Saturday has the ing...
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Filkins Shows Life as Seen From Front Lines

American combat journalist Dexter Filkins gave a free lecture entitled “Tales from the Front Lines: Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan” Wednesday night in Campbell Hall. The talk stood as the fir...
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“Star Trek” Legend Shatner To Perform Show in Santa Barbara

Emmy-winning television icon, film legend and former USS Enterprise spaceship commander William Shatner will perform his one-man Broadway show, “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It” at the Arlin...
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UC Board of Regents Debate Financial Strengths, Weaknesses Encompassing Online Education

During yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay, University officials and legislators met to discuss issues of faculty diver- sity and online education, with most Regents supporti...
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New Resignations Leave More Seats Empty in the A.S. Senate

Four student senators announced their resigna- tion during last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, adding to a total of nine Senate resigna- tions since the beginning of the year. Former se...
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UCSB Professors Help Modify Statement on Community Violence

In wake of the horrific Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting and an alarming fre- quency of such mass murders over the past year, issues like gun control and mental health have been brought t...
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