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A total of 100 high school students have enrolled in UC Santa Barbara’s new "School for Scientific Thought" to learn about "Mutants, Spirals, and Riots," "Industrial Espionage," "Biology and Ecology of Infectious Diseases," and other "hot topics" in science and engineering in the fi...

 CA The 2009 UCSB New Plays Festival is scheduled for May 21 to 23 and 28 to 30 at 8 pm and May 23 to 24 and 30 at 2 pm Tickets are $13 for students, seniors and UCSB faculty/staff, and $17 general admission.

 CA By Sara-Fay Katz / Staff Writer The leading supplier of Southern California's electricity has chosen UCSB to serve as a guinea pig for a new sustainable energy technology. Southern California Edison selected the campus out of hundreds of candidate ...

 CA What are UCSB students thinking? If what you are thinking is that you're going to graduate and get a job as a CEO of a major multinational company, then yes, you should probably plan to live at home with your parents for a few months. Or years. ...

 CA “This is a great way to showcase another side of Isla Vista. It'sa side that you just don't get to see every night on Del Playa.” There were also performances by the UCSB Juggling Club - which included a nighttime fire juggling act - and the UCSB Belly ...

I am imploring the groups and individuals outside of the UCSB community not to disrupt an amazing campus that is modeling healthy dialogue on a controversial topic. For example, we have in progress a series of faculty programs discussing the ...

 CA Why are county supervisors discussing the social-host ordinance with UCSB students? These are the very children the ordinance is written to protect, and to protect us from. At what point do underage drinkers and their enablers violate everyone else's ...

 CA By Vanessa Silvas From Australian graduate students to Los Angeles firemen, UCSB Club Field Hockey seniors have seen many new faces when it comes to coaching. With the university as the only hot spot for the sport in Santa Barbara, the Gauchos have ...

 CA By Benjamin Gottlieb (Contact) Admired by her friends and family, UCSB sophomore Sara Tahmassebi passed away suddenly in her Isla Vista apartment this past Saturday. She was 20 years old. A well-liked student and member of the Alpha Phi sorority, ...

 CA Additional evidence of the unsavory subterfuge employed by the ADL is in a recent posting on the CDAF-UCSB site headlined, “BREAKING NEWS: UC-Santa Barbara faculty member goes public about ADL pressure, May 2, 2009. History professor attended meeting ...

The lead author is Christopher Farwell, who at the time of the research was an undergraduate studying chemistry at UCSB. Inspired by this project, Farwell has changed his career path and is now a graduate student at UCSB studying marine science and ...

 CA Conner currently works with enthusiastic University of California Santa Barbara students who herald a bright future for the Life Cube; they form a dynamic team of interns affiliated with Green2Gold. Managed by Alan Arthur Tratner, Green2Gold has helped ...

 Iran He has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. ...

By Diana Martinez / Staff Writer The UCSB College of Engineering moved up a spot in the US News and World Report rankings, grabbing the 18 slot in the magazine's review of top-tier graduate engineering programs. Out of 1500 graduate programs across the ...

 OR Rounding out the race were the University of California-Santa Barbara in fourth at 7:12.1, Pacific Lutheran University in fifth at 7:18.6, Mills College in sixth at 7:27.8 and Arizona State University in seventh at 7:42.9. The top three crews from each ...

 CA - Sam Womack This move brought the number of estimated fraudulent votes from 9700 to just a few thousand from 18 precincts in the UC Santa Barbara and Isla Vista area, according to Pappas' legal team. The judge's third ruling was that Pappas did not have any ...

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 CA The UCSB chapter of EWB, which consists mainly of university students, faculty, and staff, won EWB-USA's Educational Achievement Award in 2008 for a project in Peru to install systems for water filtration and water recycling in a small village. ...

 CA By Katie Tullsen / Staff Writer At one o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, hundreds of UCSB and SBCC students were “abducted.” The abductees met at Chase Palm Park near Stearns Wharf for a daylong reenactment of the plight of child soldiers in ...

 CA The Beach will be back at the Campus Pool for it's next three matches. Thursday the Beach will have another Big West Conference match against UC Irvine at 7p.m. and then will close out Big West play on Saturday with a match against UC Santa Barbara at ...

Oneindia  Canada Lead researcher Dr. Bianca P. Acevedo, then at Stony Brook University (currently at University of California, Santa Barbara), says that the study challenges the belief that romantic love generally fizzles and is replaced by companionship love if things ...

The webbies considered proximity to good surf breaks, surf classes taught on campus and general surf-friendly ambience of campus life. Also-rans included UC Santa Barbara; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; UC Santa Cruz; and the University of Hawaii. ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY Ms. Smith holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara . "I'm very excited to add Ms. Smith to our Board. We believe that with her considerable ...

UCSB will find out where it falls in the brackets during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Monday at 4 pm (PST). All fans and media are invited to the Reitnouer Auditorium, located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus to watch ...

The case brought by Pappas against Farr alleges that thousands of votes from 18 precincts in Isla Vista and at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, should be thrown out due to irregularities in the voter registration and polling process. ...

About 13000 votes were cast in the 18 precincts in Isla Vista and on the UCSB campus, Lake said. “The facts are going to show there were illegal votes cast, they are going to show there were mistakes made, and as a result it was enough to change the ... Daily Nexus - Daily Nexus

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 UK Research Councils UK (RCUK) has announced it will fund research at the University of Cambridge and University of California at Santa Barbara as part of £12 million ($17.4 million) of funding for collaborations between British universities and ...

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 UK The ten RCUK Science Bridges awards approved this year include a £1.48m award over three years (from 1 March) for a project ‘Harnessing Materials for Energy’ between the University of Cambridge and University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). ...

By rss@youtube.com (ucsbcareer) A quick 2-minute tutorial on how to use all the wonderful resources on the UCSB Career Services website for currently enrolled UCSB students. Keywords: career web resources UCSB links students career services internships jobs resumes interview tips career fairs career events gradua...

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Wittmann recently completed her doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara, where she focused on the dispersal of the Eurasian watermilfoil plant by recreational boating in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin. She is now a researcher at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center.

By Lindsay William-Ross Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 22-year-old motorist died this morning when his car went over the side of the 210 Freeway in Monrovia. It is not known how the accident took place, but the victim was not wearing his seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. It's...

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Researchers at Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara say new studies suggest fatherhood by a small number of older men appears to postpone a date with death because natural selection fights life-shortening mutations until the species is finished reproducing. "Rod Stewart and Davi...

The researchers also designed the material of the hull to be strong enough to prevent accidental release of its cargo while circulating through the bloodstream. Tethered to the surface of the hull is a protein called F3, a molecule that sticks to cancer cells. Prepared in the laboratory of...

By Joel Welser Losing their first game in the Big West Conference Tournament and their first game in the NIT has left a bad taste in the mouth of UC Santa Barbara fans. Spending a summer in Santa Barbara tends to ease most worries, but come November the Gaucho faithful will begin to wonder if they could not do...

By Joel Welser UC Santa Barbara Gauchos Bad Losses: 1/10 at UC Irvine (63-66), 1/24 Pacific (58-71), 2/9 UC Irvine (59-65) Key Roleplayers: Who To Watch: By the Numbers: More 2008 NCAA Tournament Coverage Sign up for CHN's Free NCAA Bracket Challenge.. win a Wii, Guitar Hero, and other prizes!

By Joel Welser The only thing UC Santa Barbara needs to win the Big West is a little passion. The blame for lack of enthusiasm can be spread around, but in the end it falls on Coach Bob Williams. Coach Williams has done a good job bringing talent into Santa Barbara, but it has yet to develop into something the Ga...

By Mike Millikin Barnett credits the early success of the program to the team approach taken to solving the problem. Partners in the initial phase included BP Solar, Blue Square Energy, Energy Focus, Emcore and SAIC. Key research contributors included the University of Delaware, National Renewable Ene...

The administration at the University of California must begin to consider the interests of the students, faculty, staff and the public, and end their practice of managing this public asset as if it were a private trust. Our tax dollars must be managed and protected in a fully transparent,...

By Tessa Atkinson-Adams As an incoming University of California, Santa Barbara, freshman two years ago, everything about getting ready... Tessa D. Atkinson-Adams is a Junior at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a student intern with CALPIRG.

By Doc Searls Coastward bound   I'm flying back to Santa Barbara from London in a few minutes. Then it's a bit more than 11 hours from here to LAX before a layover there and then a half-hour flight to SBA. Total: about 18 hours. I'll be home this evening, or tomorrow in the wee hours, London time.  Love London, b...

The University of California Student Association is the official voice of over 200,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from the ten UC campuses. It is our mission to advocate on behalf of current and future students for the accessibility, affordability, and quali...

By Ann Althouse Profit margins at Kinko’s have fallen, revenue has barely grown and employee turnover, which was 42 percent in 2005, was still a daunting 27 percent last year. Paul Orfalea, who was nicknamed Kinko for the full head of curly black hair he sported in 1970 when he founded the company — origina...

102.3 KCLU's 4-watt local transmitter for Santa Barbara on Gibraltar Peak. KCLU is in Thousand Oaks, at California Lutheran University. 106.9 KCRW's 10-watt translator for Goleta and the West side of Santa Barbara, from West Camino Cielo

By El Bicho About 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles is the city of Santa Barbara, California, which claims to be the American Riviera. The nickname has connotations of the rich and famous lounging about in the sun and surf, but that only captures one aspect of its personality. It is a beach town along the...

By bourisly(bourisly@gmail.com) Researchers from UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkley and in collaboration with California based StrataGent Life Sciences, developed a novel pulsed microject system engineered for protein drug delivery without any needle pain. Here's an excerpt from UCSB: The researchers felt that the pain...

That said, schools with the top physics grad programs can be relied on to prepare undergraduates for their own grad programs. For liberal arts colleges, look at the size of the physics faculty and the number of physics majors. There is a feedback loop, where liberal arts faculty send their b...