News

January 25, 2011

Deficit Takes Toll On Development

By Doug Flanagan

Goleta Mayor Margaret Connell reprimanded Gov. Jerry Brown in a letter last week over his proposal to cut state redevelopment funding from the fiscal 2011-2012 budget.

January 25, 2011

Maya Research Resumes

By Patrick Kulp

UCSB signed an agreement with Belizean dignitaries yesterday to launch a new collaborative preservation program in the ancient Maya city of El Pilar.

January 25, 2011

Weekend Wrap-Up

By Garik Hauer

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol responded to two sexual assaults, two burglaries and several alcohol-related incidents this weekend.

January 25, 2011

Career Expo Anticipates Increased Participation

By Milena Milojicic

Nearly 50 nonprofit organizations will be at today’s annual career fair at Corwin Pavilion from 12 to 4 p.m. to discuss career, internship and volunteer opportunities.

January 25, 2011

A.S. Sends 10 to D.C. Climate Change Event

By Zane Way-Henthorne

The Associated Students Finance Board distributed $52,760 to 21 student organizations during last night’s four-hour meeting.

January 24, 2011

Nobel Laureate Relays Research

By Andrew Gilchrist

UCSB alumna Carol Greider spoke about her Nobel Prize-winning cancer research in Corwin Pavilion last Friday.

January 24, 2011

Board Judges Jails’ Mental Health System

By Patrick Schaeper

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown and others discussed the effects of sparse mental health spending on overcrowded county jails at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

January 24, 2011

Campus Renovation Continues

By Daily Nexus Staff

Construction crews made vast progress on infrastructural renewals over winter break and expect to move their work area northward from the Arbor toward Ellison Hall within a month.

January 24, 2011

Landmark To Be Repaired After 70 Years of Ruin

By Daily Nexus Staff

Construction is underway once again on the Knapp’s Castle property after county officials halted all progress earlier this month, claiming the project violated zoning requirements.

January 21, 2011

Best of UCSB 2011

By Daily Nexus Staff

We eat. We shop. We party. We groom. We consume. We also vote — Take five minutes to answer the next 30 questions. You decide who is the "Best of UCSB" for 2011!

January 21, 2011

Los Alamos Club to Sip on Spirits, Feast on Fungi

By Megan Meyer

Unusual flavors will collide this weekend at Santa Barbara Bedford Winery’s fifth annual “Mushrooms Gone Wild” mushroom and wine tasting.

January 21, 2011

Regents Board Alters Reviews for Applicants

By Daily Nexus Staff

The University of California Board of Regents unanimously voted to amend the UC application process during yesterday’s meeting.

January 21, 2011

Service Honors Victims

By Emily Hunt

Over 60 UCSB students and community members gathered in Storke Plaza yesterday to mourn the victims of the recent shootings in Arizona.

January 20, 2011

The Housing Trap

By Elliott Rosenfeld

The reality of living in Isla Vista is that housing is often imperfect and hard to improve quickly.

January 20, 2011

Freedom From Government Not Enough

By Mary Bissell

Reading the “Left Said, Right Said” opinion pieces in the Nexus today, I was appalled at conservative columnist Ben Parish’s thoughts on the state of our union.

January 20, 2011