University of California, Santa Barbara

Do Obama's small biceps explain his liberal politics?

2013-05-18 08:58:00

Here’s a scientific news flash about our recent presidential election: You could assume that President Obama was more kindly disposed to redistribution of wealth than Mitt Romney just by looking at them. Not because Obama is African American and...

Letters: It's UC, not McDonald's

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Re "Brown urges UC to speed graduations," May 16 Over the 15 years I have taught at UC Santa Barbara, I have seen repeated budget cuts and tuition increases. And yet most students are graduating in four years, not six. I am not sure what Gov. Jerry...

Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math

2013-05-02 05:00:00

Many part-timers are facing a double whammy from President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The law requires large employers offering health insurance to include part-time employees working 30 hours a week or more. But rather than provide healthcare to more...

Review: Jennifer Koh shows her own genius with Bach program

2013-04-25 16:30:00

With Montecito magically misted by a surprising spring drizzle Wednesday night, Jennifer Koh went, for a second time, beyond Bach. The violinist's awe-inspiring solo recital at the Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall was the latest installment in her...

Teacher pays it forward on immigrant's path to education

2013-04-24 07:00:00

Itzel Ortega should have been bursting with the good news. Instead, her eyes filled with tears as she confided in her former English teacher. She had just been accepted to the architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona. But she wasn't eligible for...

UC Berkeley student leaders urge UC to divest from some firms

2013-04-18 16:34:00

Elected student leaders at UC Berkeley passed a resolution early Thursday that urged the UC system to divest from�companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian Israeli policies. The controversial resolution was passed in the student government’...

Cosmology's future lies with the dark side, Stephen Hawking says

2013-04-17 11:30:00

Want to discover the next big breakthrough in cosmology? Turn to the dark side, says renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. “The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy,” Hawking said Tuesday night...

School district sued over voting rights issues

2013-04-11 15:34:00

A school district in southeastern Los Angeles County is illegally diluting the voting clout of Latinos and barring them from elective office by using an at-large electoral system for school board races, according to a lawsuit filed this week. No Latino...

Rick Warren says gun in son's suicide was unregistered

2013-04-11 15:09:00

The gun Rick Warren’s son used to kill himself was unregistered and purchased on the Internet, the pastor tweeted Thursday afternoon. Warren’s tweet read: Someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun.I pray he seeks God's...

Hackers ridicule LAPD on USC digital traffic sign

2013-04-11 17:13:00

An electronic sign near USC whose display was changed to flash inappropriate messages about the�Los Angeles Police Department�was unlocked and the message altered using a control panel, the USC police chief said�Thursday. Various pictures of the sign...

UC Santa Barbara student leaders vote down divestment resolution

2013-04-11 14:19:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details Elected student leaders at UC Santa Barbara voted down a resolution early Thursday that would have urged the UC system to divest from�companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian...

How the relationship between employers and workers changed

2013-04-07 11:31:00

Decades ago, many workers spent their whole lives at the same job, retiring with a full pension, and maybe even a gold watch from their boss. Now, almost no one works at the same place for life, and there’s much less loyalty between employers...

Storke Tower, a 175-foot campanile on the Isla Vista campus of UC Santa Barbara, is famous for its 61-bell carillon, which can sometimes be heard from the plaza below.

2013-01-02 11:44:15

Zi Kyle Yie has joined Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP as a technical specialist who assists in prosecuting patents for clients in a variety of industries, particularly electrical and software engineering. Before joining MGB, he was an electrical project engineer for S.K.

2012-07-30 00:00:00

Students crowd the UC Santa Barbara bike racks. A survey of UC students found that 82% of those who answered were somewhat satisfied, satisfied or very satisfied with their overall academic experience.

2010-01-13 00:00:00