News

May 1, 2012

UCSB Scientists Examine Potent Salmonella Strain

By David Wallace

UCSB researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff recently discovered “hypervirulent” strains of Salmonella. New methods to identify this especially dangerous form of Salmonella may allow scientists to effectively ...

April 30, 2012

DPP Executives Join With OPP-Dominated Senate

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

Associated Students Spring election results were announced last night in Karl Geiringer Hall, leaving the senate seats dominated by Open People’s Party (OPP) members and a majority of the executive positions secured by...

April 30, 2012

Security Cameras To Help Combat Criminal Activity

By Travis Vail

The Santa Barbara Downtown Parking Dept. is installing new video surveillance equipment in local parking facilities to increase employee and shopper safety. An armed and masked suspect robbed parking kiosks in three sepa...

April 30, 2012

Professor Wins Recognition for Accomplishments in Labor Rights

By Daily Nexus Staff

UCSB history profes- sor Nelson Lichtenstein will receive this year’s annual Sol Stetin Award for Labor History tomorrow at the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s annual Hillman Prizes ceremony in New York City. The honor i...

April 30, 2012

UCSB Finishes Season at Indian Wells

By David Russo

The Big West Championship and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament came down to a tiebreaker in the last match, but the No. 65 UC Santa Barbara men’s tennis team lost 4-3 to No. 63 Cal Poly in Indian Wells yesterd...

April 27, 2012

At-Large Criminal Goes to County Jail Voluntarily

By Han Bae

Ramon Gonzalez Ceja, a wanted fugitive for over 14 years who is suspected of rape, burglary and domestic violence, turned himself in on Tuesday to the Santa Barbara County Jail. Ceja was first arrested in 1998 on allegat...

April 27, 2012

Alumni Speakers To Give Students Career Advice

By Rilla Peng

The communication department will host its fourth annual Communication Career Day event tomorrow from 12:30 to 4 p.m. at HSSB. The event will feature 40 communication alumni speakers from organizations including Facebook...

April 26, 2012

Community Efforts Reduce Burglaries

By Garik Hauer

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol released the results from the first year of its “Stop Burglaries in IV” campaign yes- terday, reporting an overall decline in residential thefts since the program’s inception. The initiat...

April 26, 2012

Starry-Eyed Group Unveils Plan to Harvest Minerals from Space

By Derek Rueschenberg

Recently-formed company Planetary Resources Inc. announced its plans to mine asteroids for precious metals and water at a conference in Seattle on Tuesday. Andy Howell, adjunct profes- sor of physics at UCSB, talked with...

April 26, 2012

New Initiative To Tax Downtown Nightlife Locales

By Yishian Yao

One of Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider’s proposed ballot measures, an additional tax on several bars and nightclubs in Santa Barbara’s busy downtown area, has recently come under fire from local business owners....

April 26, 2012

Gov. Brown Faces Pressure to Appoint New Regents

By Carissa Quiambao

Gov. Jerry Brown is faced with the task of appointing three new UC Regents following the conclusion of two board members’ terms at the end of February and corporate investment partner David Crane’s failure to clear t...

April 26, 2012

MCAT To Test Social Judgment

By Brigitte Naughton

The Medical College Admission Test plans to change its format to include additional social science sections, effec- tive in 2015, that aim to single out well- rounded students who will make patient- conscious doctors. Th...

April 26, 2012

A.S. Tables Bill on Student Stipends

By Arda Jooharian

The Associated Students Legislative Council debated whether or not next year’s stu- dent government budget should include cuts in honoraria during last night’s meeting as a crowd of protestors from A.S. Program Board...

April 25, 2012

Mercury Probe Completes Orbit

By Chris Nebergall

The MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) space- craft recently completed an orbital survey of the planet Mercury, con- cluding a decade-long phase of the project. MESSENGER is now on a...

April 25, 2012

New Short Film Reveals Roots of Green Activism

By Arda Jooharian

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mark Kitchell’s environmental documentary “A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet” will prescreen on May 7 at 7 p.m. in the Marjorie Luke Theater at Santa Barbara Junior High ...