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January 23, 2013

Brown Begins Push for Efficient UC Spending as Regents Navigate Through Financial Turmoil

By Marissa Wenzke

Despite the passage of Proposition 30 — which protected the UC from a $375 million funding cut — fiscal struggles have yet to disappear from the University’s agenda. While the most recent Board of Regents meeting l...

January 23, 2013

New Keystone Class Examines Immigrant Experiences

By Cassandra Miasnikov

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 experienced by undocum...

January 23, 2013

Engineers Create Instrument That Detects Molecules Through Smell

By Suzanne Becker

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 molecules. The basic t...

January 23, 2013

Flu Cases in SB Dwindle From Previous Year

By Jennifer Chang

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 that flu rates in S...

January 22, 2013

President Yudof Steps Down

By Marissa Wenzke

January 22, 2013

Homeland Security To Investigate Human Smuggling After Panga Boat Found In Goleta

By Jimmy Chang

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, which was discovered b...

January 22, 2013

UCSB Boasts Increase In Diversity Through Minority Applicants

By Shannon Ham

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 nationwide trend in the...

January 22, 2013

Carsey-Wolf Center Promotes Film Preservation Via Screenings

By Shannon Ham

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 Film Preservation,” a...

January 22, 2013

Winter Career Fair To Offer Job, Networking Opportunities

By Staff Report

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 Letters and Science ar...

January 22, 2013

Environmentalists Appeal for Further Preservation of Great Whites

By Adam Courtin

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 protection for great whit...

January 18, 2013

Dome Will Be Loco for Blue-Green Rivalry

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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 ingredients for what ha...

January 18, 2013

Filkins Shows Life as Seen From Front Lines

By Tiffany Park

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 first of a series of le...

January 18, 2013

“Star Trek” Legend Shatner To Perform Show in Santa Barbara

By Carolina Ortiz

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 Arlington Theatre tomorro...

January 17, 2013

UC Board of Regents Debate Financial Strengths, Weaknesses Encompassing Online Education

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

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 supporting efforts to increa...

January 17, 2013

New Resignations Leave More Seats Empty in the A.S. Senate

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

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 senators Patrick Kenne...

January 17, 2013

UCSB Professors Help Modify Statement on Community Violence

By Jennifer Chang

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 to the forefront of n...