December 8, 2008: Headlines

• A work in Progress: El colegio Road Improvements
• Regents Warn Fall Enrollment May Be Curtailed
• Defense Department Awards Cancer Researcher $3.8 Million Grant
• Dalai Lama to Make Fourth Visit to Campus
• New Issue of ‘Today’
• Chinese Cultural Studies Scholar Publishes New Book, Receives NEA Grant to Translate Another
• Call For Teaching Award Nominations and Faculty Outreach Grant Proposals
• Gevirtz School Receives $500,000 Kresge Challenge Grant
• NCEAS Studies Shed Light on Biodiversity
• Under Construction
• Art Museum and Counseling Clinic Provide Assistance to Fire Victims
• Books by Anthropologists Examine Identity, Culture
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November 17 , 2008: Headlines

• Governor’s Midyear Budget Cuts Take $65.5 Million More From UC
• Internet Video Links Materials Students at UCSB and Jackson State University
• UCRP Employee Contributions to Resume in 2009
• Green, Clean Award
• New Director Joins Women’s Center
• Video Produced for Psychology Class to Air on UCTV
• Panel Discussion Kicks Off Capps Center’s New Public Service Program
• Open Enrollment Reminder
• Conference Examines Student Activism
• Seed Bank Offers Clues to Climate Change, Evolution
• IHC Series Focuses on Food and the World
• El Colegio Road Work to Cause Detours
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November 3 , 2008: Headlines

• $22 Million Electrical Upgrade Completed
• UC Warns of Additional Budget Cuts
• Welcome, Parents and Families!
• Study: Ability to Fight Is All in the Face
• Physics Professor Hartle Receives Einstein Prize
• University Art Museum Receives Getty Foundation Grant
• Chemist Awarded Packard Fellowship
• Cheadle Memorial
• LabRATS Receive First National Green Award
• UC Reaches Agreements With Police and Patient Care Workers
• Cross-Protective Vaccine Developed by Researchers
• New Sustainability Committee Appointed
• Open Enrollment Reminder
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October 20 , 2008: Headlines

• Researchers Are Part of $24 Million Center to Study Environmental Risks of Nanoparticles
• New Kiosk Opens
• Veeco Instruments Endows Chair for Research in Engineering or Science
• Agreement Paves the Way for Archaeological Peace Park at El Pilar
• Fulbright Scholars to Study in Spain and Germany
• Open Enrollment Period Begins on October 30
• UC Helps Protect Employees Against Rising Health Insurance Costs
• New NSF Program Helps Students Address Energy Challenges
• Halloween Parking Plan Announced
• Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life
• Vendor Fair to Showcase New Travel Program
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October 6, 2008: Headlines

• Welcoming New Students
• Private Giving Reaches Record $81.4 Million in 2007-08
• New Study Offers Solution to Global Fisheries Collapse
• UC Accountability Framework Draft Available Online
• Physicist Polchinski Wins Dirac Medal
• Four Historians Publish New Books
• UC Responds to State Budget
• Review of Skateboard Safety on Campus
• Melvyn Semmel Receives Emeriti Professorship
• Chemist Goes Nano With CoQ10
• Chairs in Materials Science and Physics Endowed by Scholars
• Study to Focus on Changing Role of Religion in Public Life
• Carillon Concert
• New Members Join Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Council
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September 22, 2008: Headlines

• Campus External Research Funding Shatters Record
• Gateway to Learning
• Physicists Play Key Role in Collider Project
• New Graduate Program in Feminist Studies to Offer M.A. and Ph.D.
• New Athletics Director Named
• Photographs Show America at the Turn of the 21st Century
• A Voice From Outer Space
• UCSB Ranked Among Country’s Best Universities
• Sustainability Blitz Hits Campus
• Yudof Makes Accountability a Top Priority
• Anthropologist Examines Climate Change
• Chemist Stucky Earns Top Military Award for Life-Saving Gauze
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July 14, 2008: Headlines

• Town Hall Meeting at UCSB to Focus on Current Stem Cell Research
• UC Regents to Meet on Campus
• Wiltzius Named Dean of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences
• Campus’s Former First Lady Mary Low Cheadle Dies at 92
• MicroRNAs Provide New Insight in Study of Autism
• Gift from Alumnus Establishes Endowed Chair in International Security Studies
• New Student Convocation Coming Soon
• Paper on Safety of Particle Collider to Appear in Physical Review D
• A Shear of Support
• Graduate Student Nominated 2009-10 Student Regent
• English Broadside Ballad Archive Receives Second NEH Grant
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June 23, 2008: Headlines

• Sunshine and Smiles Mark Commencement for the Class of 2008
• Freshman Enrollment Breaks Record
• $1M Gift Creates Endowed Chair in Economics
• Physicist Wins Prestigious Harold J. Plous Award
• Annual Central Coast Survey Taps Public Opinion
• Women Authors Turn Out
• Theater Professor Explores Preoccupation with Collecting
• New President Addresses UC Community
• Faculty & Staff Lauded for Outstanding Service to Students
• UCSD Employee New Regents’ Advisor-Designate
• Increase in Parking Fines Proposed for New Fiscal Year
• Senate Hails Teaching, Mentorship
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May 27, 2008: Headlines

• Staff Week Ends on High Note
• UC to Again Offer START Work-Time Reduction Program
• Officials: Campus Did Well in 2007-08; Girds for Bumpy Year
• Helpers Needed for Commencement on June 8, 13-15
• Revised Budget Boosts Funds; Salaries Flat
• UCSB Faculty Help Launch McNair Scholars Program
• Faculty Become New IEEE Fellows
• Alumni Awards Banquet Set for June 6
• 93106’s Letters Historical Facts on UCSB Recycling
• Annual Human Rights Film Festival to Mix Dramas, Documentaries
• A Mighty Tree is Transplanted
• Bulb Free Campaign = Energy Savings
• Grad Mentoring Award for Communication
• Cal Poly to Host Sustainability Meet
• Spatial Center Opens with Conference
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May 12, 2008: Headlines

• Faculty Elected to National Academy
• Yudof: UCOP Changes a Priority
• Stem Cell Center Gains $3.2 Million for Renovation
• UCSB Institute to Play Key Role in New Diabetes Project
• Employee Opinions Wanted on Housing
• GGSE to Dissect Bakke Affirmative Action Ruling
• German Filmmaker Brings Personal Touch to Campus
• 93106’s Letters
• Glassblower’s Art
• Book: Citizen-Scientists Ushered in Space Age
• Art Professor Documents a Singular Canvas
• Candidates Sought for 2008-09 Regents’ Lecturers at UCSB
• Research Lecture Set for May 21
• Basque Studies Launches Symposia
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April 28, 2008: Headlines

• Council: Oppose UC Budget Cuts
• Chancellor Approves Sustainability Plan; Goals Include Zero Waste, Slashing CO2
• Staff Celebration Week Rolls into View with Activities Old and New
• Publisher to Speak at PWA Conference
• Scholars to Focus on Mexican Ballads
• Colleagues to Measure Capps’s Contributions to Study of Religion
• ESSB Complex Seen on Schedule
• Tip-a-Cop Benefit Set for May 5
• Register for Regalia
• Toyota Gift to Bren Seen as Mutual Boon
• Squid Beaks Point Pathways to New Research in Materials
• LRDP Public Meeting Rescheduled
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April 14, 2008: Headlines

• UCSB Offers Admission to Record 23,140 Applicants
• Restructuring UCOP Could Alter Campuses
• Primavera Fest Features Digital Music, Kuchera-Morin
• All Gaucho Reunion Boasts Many Events
• Industry, Scholars Focus on Issues of Media Ownership
• Transcribing Cultural Icon’s Handwriting No Cakewalk
• Double Celebration for Kohn
• Scientists Discover 10 New Planets Outside of Earth’s Solar System
• Faculty Club Board Tells Members of Possible Closure of Club’s Pool
• Golf Tournament to Help Basketball Team
• Vision Plan Opens to Retirees in April
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March 31, 2008: Headlines

• UT’s Yudof Named Next UC Head
• Vision 2025 Launches UCSB’s Future
• Dogs to Warm Up Gaucho Gallop
• Proposed UCOP Cuts Come to $52 M
• Scientists Unveil Global Map of Human Impacts on Seas
• Budget Strategy Committee Reborn
• Symphony Rehearsal Open to Staff
• United Way 2008 Gets UCSB Boost
• Eco-Entrepreneurs Win in D.C.
• eScholarship Depot Downloads Hit 5 M
• New Book Examines Presidential Illness, Decision Making
• Spring Insight Coming April 12
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March 17, 2008: Headlines

• Physicist Awschalom Awarded Top Faculty Honor
• Energy Efficiency Is Name, Aim of New Institute
• Residence Hall Student Parking Cost May Rise
• Memoir by UCSB Faculty Author, Filmmaker Describes His Life in Japan
• Mathematician Wins Sloan Fellowship
• Despite State Cuts, UC to Offer Full Fall Admissions
• Fellowships in Chemistry Endowed
• U.S. Experiment Retakes Lead in Race to Find Dark Matter
• Employees Can Register Their Kids for April 4 Children’s Day
• PWA Seeks Unsung Heroine Nominees Now
• Fun at Broida Science Center
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March 3, 2007: Headlines

• Endowed Chair Established for the Dean of Social Sciences
• Campus Disability Survey Reveals ‘Serious Problems’
• Climate Change Seen Turning Seas Acidic
• Iraq, Human Rights Themes Draw Speakers from Different Perspectives
• Lobsters Unite Fishermen, Scientists
• UCSB Support for Peace Corps Steady
• Chumash Heritage Garden Thrives
• New $2 Million Alzheimer’s Grant for Basic Science
• Panel to Dissect President’s Power
• Golf League Opens to New Players
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February 19, 2008: Headlines

• National Society Honors 4 Faculty
• San Clemente Opens This Fall
• Dean: Deficits Compel Extension Cuts
• UC Announces New Enron Settlement
• Institute Honors Chancellor Yang for Pioneering Aerospace Research
• New ‘Fit Squad’ Launches Free Exercise Sessions
• Black History Month Sampler
• Tenured Women Faculty Ranks Grow
• Foundation Funds Faculty Composer
• ‘Reads’ Program Brings Discussion Into Communities
• Difficult Youth Is Useful for Fish
• United Way Campaign Ends Feb. 29
• Scholars Probe Chicano Students ’68 Walkout
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February 4, 2008: Headlines

• Bren School Receives $1 Million Endowment for Visitors Program
• Applications Soar for Fall 2008
• Energy Tech Summit Opens This Week
• C-SPANS's "Campaign 2008" bus
• Staff Award Nominations Due Feb. 15
• Global Warming Issues, Sustainability Practices Energize Campus
• Music Improv Seen as Research Tool
• Composer’s New CD Blends Pop, Jazz
• Psychology Prof Wins National Prize
• UC Staff Advisor Candidates Sought
• Scientists: Bacterial Activity Dissolves Most Methane Released into Ocean
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January 22, 2008: Headlines

• Physicists Find Rare ‘Einstein Ring’
• UC Offers New Wellness Plan To Employees
• Proposed Budget Cuts UC Funding by $332 Million
• Registration for Emergency Message System Opens
• $1.75 Million Keck Grant to Fund UCSB Study of Proteins in Motion
• Is the American Dollar Dead?
• Librarian Welcomed at Book Launch
• Award Nominees Sought
• Woodstock Pizza to Help UW Drive
• UCSB Linguist Examines Feelings Underlying Laughter and Humor
• Campus Participates in Santa Barbara Film Fest
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January 7, 2008: Headlines

• T-Shirt’s Global Life Cycle a Map for UCSB Reads
• Biochemist Nguyen Takes Home the Plous Award
• Mica Layers May Have Hosted Life’s First Cells, Says New Theory
• $1 Million Endows Jewish Studies Program
• Chumash Scholars Program Offers Help to College-Bound American Indian Students
• Stem Cell Research Collaborations Spread
• Campus’s 2008 United Way Campaign to Start in Mid-January
• Students’ Green Fund Helps Finance Sustainability
• Faculty Outreach Grant Proposal Filing Deadline Set for Jan. 25
• UCOP Plans to Restructure
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