News

January 17, 2012

Study Gives Insight Into Retina Diseases

By Derek Rueschenberg

Researchers at UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute have come closer to unlocking the secrets of neural formation in early development after examining the retinas of mice. Psychology professor Benjamin Reese and visi...

January 17, 2012

Select Students Receive New Aid Opportunities

By Han Bae

The university is offering two new scholarships this quarter for first-generation college students: the UCSB-specific Enhanced Support, Training and Experiences for Engineering Majors program and the Council for Internat...

January 13, 2012

Governor Proposes New Plan to Fund Education

By Marissa Wenzke

Following a $100 million trigger cut to the University of California system last month, Governor Jerry Brown announced a state budget plan last Thursday including a tax increase initiative aimed at preventing additional ...

January 12, 2012

Arroyo Grande Man Saved After Straying Off Trail

By Jack Crosbie

Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue recovered a stranded hiker from the Los Padres National Forest last Sunday approximately two hours after the volunteer team mounted a full search effort. According to a statement is...

January 12, 2012

Board of Regents Continues to Disregard Open Meeting Policy

By Erika Martin

During the UC Board of Regents’ latest meeting on Nov. 28, held across four campuses via teleconference, officials cited attempts to spread access to the proceedings but instead denied public open access and violated s...

January 12, 2012

UCSB Begins Public Response Team Training

By Dale Fairclough

UCSB Emergency Services will kick off its free eight-week Community Early Response Team training course this evening to help the community develop effective response skills for large-scale disasters. The instruction will...

January 12, 2012

New Parking Program Seeks Support From I.V. Locals

By Christine Cha

During public forum at last night’s Associated Students Legislative Council meeting, speaker Errin Briggs outlined the county’s plan to remedy overcrowding on the streets of Isla Vista. As the Program Manager for the...

January 12, 2012

Group Seeks Student Volunteers for Humanitarian Efforts

By Michael Roe

The Growth International Volunteer Excursions program is visiting UCSB today, aiming to draw college students interested in global volunteerism and adventure. G.I.V.E. helps develop rural communities’ infrastructures b...

January 10, 2012

Finance Board Meeting – January 9th, 2012

By Vered Hazanchuk

The Associated Students Finance Board allocated $13,063 to eight of the nine student organizations that requested funding at last night’s two-and-a-half hour meeting. The board fully funded Substance Abuse Intervention...

January 10, 2012

State Senate Fails to Confirm Anti-Bargaining UC Regent

By Carissa Quiambao

Former UC Regent David Crane, who served on the Board of Regents since his controversial nomination by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2010, lost his seat on the board after being denied the state Senat...

January 10, 2012

Pappas To Run for Supervisor Again

By Jack Crosbie, Megan Meyer

Steve Pappas, a defeated 2008 Third District Supervisor candidate, announced on Dec. 28 that he would once again be challenging incumbent Doreen Farr for her seat in the upcoming 2012 election. After losing to Farr in 20...

January 10, 2012

Hearing Inspects Systemwide UC Police Protocol

By Patrick Kulp

Several members of the UC administration held a joint legislative hearing last month in response to last quarter’s incidents of police violence at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, which prompted several systemwide investigati...

January 10, 2012

Yearly Free Book Program Tackles Plastic Pollution

By Kathleen Tan

The UCSB Reads 7th annual program is distributing free copies of Donovan Hohn’s Moby-Duck this Thursday in the Davidson Library’s main lobby for participants in the communal reading initiative. The program features H...

January 10, 2012

UCSB Professors Lead the Way in Computer Science

By Christine Cha

UCSB professors Divyakant Agrawal and Linda Petzold were named fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educating and computing society, for their research in pioneering technological adv...

January 10, 2012

Nonprofit Recognizes Faculty

By Christine Cha

The National Communication Association honored five faculty members from UCSB’s Department of Communication for their contributions to the field at the NCA’s 97th annual convention in New Orleans. The nonprofit organ...

January 9, 2012

FBI Investigates Repeat Arson Attempts on IVFP

By Megan Meyer

An unknown suspect threw a combustible device comparable to a Molotov cocktail at the Isla Vista Foot Patrol Station shortly before midnight on New Year’s Day, the second attack on the building in less than two months....