News

UC Haiti Initiative and Direct Relief Co-Host Haiti Film Event

A free screening of the documentary “Baseball in the Time of Cholera” and a panel discussion on reconstruction efforts in Haiti will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Speakers will inclu...
read more

Brown Signs New Bill To Ease UC and CSU Student Tuition Hikes

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed the Working Families Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act, which requires at least a 30-day notification for a proposed tuition increase and a minimum...
read more

UCLA’s Luskin Hotel & Conference Center Set to Begin Construction September 2013

The UC Board of Regents granted full approval for the construction of a 250-room hotel located in the heart of the UCLA campus last month. The Board’s Committee on Grounds and Buildings unanimously ...
read more

Students Gather in UCen For Presidential Debate

Tonight, students will gather at the UCen Hub to watch a live broadcast of the first 2012 presidential debate, highlighting the core domestic policy plans of Democratic President Barack Obama and Repu...
read more

Scammers Employ ‘Straw Students’ for Federal Aid Scam at Community Colleges

Federal officials are moving to prosecute 21 suspects responsible for a statewide financial aid scam that took a total of $770,000 out of Santa Barbara City College and 14 other community and online c...
read more

Various Organizations Recognize Santa Barbara’s Ecological Advances

Biochemistry Department Makes Strides in Diagnostic Testing   This month the Journal of the American Chemical Society published findings by chemistry and biochemistry professor Kevin W. Plaxco an...
read more

Calif. To Utilize New Online Voter Registration

In an innovative shift in the election process, California citizens may now register to vote online through a new system launched by the California Secretary of State and the Department of Motor Vehic...
read more

Congressional District Candidates To Discuss Community Issues on KEYT, Live Stream

Tonight, Santa Barbara news station KEYT and online news outlet Noozhawk will televise a live debate for the position of 24th Congressional District Representative, featuring incumbent Lois Capps and ...
read more

Capps and Maldonado Compete to Represent 24th District

Amid accusations of shady financial dealings and tax evasion, Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Lois Capps and Republican challenger Abel Maldonado are in a clash to represent the 24th District cover...
read more

EAP Grant Funds Internships For Students Abroad in Asia

The Education Abroad Program received a $76,950 grant from the Freeman Foundation, a national organization aimed at promoting relations between the United States and the countries of East Asia, to fun...
read more

Quidditch Lands in Muggle UCSB

Joining a growing number of Harry Potter fans-turned-athletes across the U.S., Evan Bell founded the Santa Barbara Blacktips last month, a team dedicated to the magical sport of Quidditch. Adapted fro...
read more

Former Researcher Donates, Creates Endowment

Emeritus chemical engineering professor Duncan Mellichamp and his wife Suzanne recently donated $2 million in order to establish a new cluster of four endowed chairs at UCSB, making a total of 12 clus...
read more

UCSB Alum Aids Development Of Electric-Powered Longboard

UCSB alumnus Sho Takahashi is one of the founders of a new company called Boosted Boards, which is aiming to raise $500,000 through a Kickstarter campaign in order to manufacture lightweight electric-...
read more

Recent Study Considers Underlying Factors for Harming, Helping Others

Researchers at the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology presented new findings regarding the psychological motivators behind human cooperation and justice in an article published last Wednesday in ...
read more

UCSB Researchers Offer Hope For Marine Life Conservation, Fisheries

In a report funded by the National Science Foundation, UCSB researchers Daniel Okamoto and Daniel Reed confirmed that adequate food supply increases reproduction and baby fish survival rates by up to ...
read more