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January 20, 2012

Event Brings Cycling Films, Swap Meet to Isla Vista

By Rilla Peng

The international Bicycle Film Festival kicked off yesterday in downtown Santa Barbara with a party and an art show at DNA Studio. The second-annual Santa Barbara installment runs through this Saturday and aims to celebr...

January 20, 2012

Ira Glass To Visit Campus

By Carissa Quiambao

Nationally renowned journalist Ira Glass will speak about journalistic approaches to storytelling and radio production techniques at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Campbell Hall. Glass’ award-winning public radio show “This Amer...

January 20, 2012

UCSB Physicists Discover Protoclusters, Giant Stars

By Chris Nebergall

Two cosmic discoveries made in part by UCSB researchers are teaching scientists more about the formation of stars and galaxies. Matteo Cantiello of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics was part of an international...

January 20, 2012

Analysts Create Database to Promote Literary Networking

By Travis Vail

Researchers from UCSB’s English department and Media Arts & Technology Program are working to create a new bibliographical social network designed to change the way students perform academic research. The project, ...

January 20, 2012

Rehabilitative Program Strengthens Family Bonds

By Vanessa Angiuli

Several Santa Barbara County juvenile detention facilities have joined the “Baby Elmo” program, which helps young incarcerated parents develop and maintain relationships with their children while serving their senten...

January 20, 2012

Professors Earn Honors For Scientific Research

By Christine Cha

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently recognized eight UCSB faculty members as fellows of the world’s largest scientific organization. The AAAS honors members nominated by their peers for the...

January 20, 2012

Student Mural Aims To Inspire Lifelong Goals

By Christine Cha

Third-year global studies major James Cobb is launching an on-campus art project compiling the various experiences students want to undertake in their lives onto one large mural. The “Before I Die…” venture will co...

January 20, 2012

Skating Event Encourages Sober Fun

By Arda Jooharian

The After Dark Club will host a free ice skating event tonight at the Channel Islands Ice Skating Center in Oxnard as part of its schedule of alcohol-free weekend activities — and wearing pajamas is encouraged. Student...

January 19, 2012

Students Begin the Housing Search

By Han Bae

The beginning of Winter Quarter signals the start of the stressful and often confusing race to find housing for the following school year. The task of finding the perfect combination of price and location, going door-to-...

January 19, 2012

Lucrative Bid Keeps Coach Through 2015

By Carissa Quiambao

The UC Regents granted UCSB Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bob Williams a five-year contract with a $39,730 annual pay increase and $235,000 base salary. The new agreement is effective until Aug. 31, 2016 and provides a 1...

January 19, 2012

Weekend Wrap-Up

By Garik Hauer

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol responded to an illegal drug possession, a burglary and several alcohol-related crimes this weekend. Deputies stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation around 1 p.m. Thursday on the 1300 block ...

January 19, 2012

Police Blotter

By Jack Crosbie

Isla Vista Foot Patrol officers narrowly missed an opportunity to reenact their favorite Bay Watch scene this weekend when an inebriated male loudly proclaimed he would brave the icy waters near the Camino Pescadero beac...

January 19, 2012

Regents Deliberate Improving Current Educational Policy During Opening Day

By Staff Report

The UC Board of Regents convened at UC Riverside yesterday for its two-day meeting tackling strategies to compensate for the system’s budget shortfalls. Chair of the Board Sherry Lansing started the assembly with an an...

January 19, 2012

UCSB Engineer to Receive Honors

By Vanessa Angiuli

The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce named Chemical Engineering Professor Frank Doyle Innovator of the Year this week for his work on artificial pancreas technology. Doyle collaborated with medical professionals and typ...

January 19, 2012

Lobero To Host Discussion with Napalm Survivor

By Han Bae

Napalm strike victim Kim Phuc will discuss her physical and mental healing process after the 1972 attack at 7 p.m. today in downtown Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre. Phuc is best known as the child in an iconic photogra...

January 19, 2012

Students Return From Model United Nations

By Amber Leitheiser

Seven UCSB Model United Nations club members recently returned from Argentina after competing against 300 other students worldwide in the Harvard National Model UN-Latin America Conference. The convention took place in B...