December 3, 2007: Headlines

• Stem Cell Team Has UCSB Ties
• Health Video Game Research Program Set in Motion with $8.25 Million Grant
• Kids in Nature Project Receives Governor’s Award
• UC Regents Approve $3.5 Billion Budget Proposal
• Docents Provide Key to Plover Protection
• Kemmerer Appointed to Endowed Chair
• Regents Oppose Lock-in Initiative
• Study: Species Extinction Could Reduce Plant Productivity by Half
• Stretching for Health
• TAB, Parking Board Juggle Funding
• Faculty Lecturer Nominees Sought
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November 5, 2007: Headlines

• Librarian to Take Post in January
• UCSB Conference to Examine Shipping Containers as Global Icons
• Enrollment Info Sessions Offer Options
• Hydras’ Light-Receptive Genes Linked to Animal Vision
• Geography’s Highest Honor Goes to UCSB Professor Michael Goodchild
• Physicist to Receive $625,000 Fellowship
• Halloween Contest Winners Named
• ‘Tandem’ Organic Plastic Solar Cells Developed at UCSB Center
• Kids Center’s New Seal of Approval
• New Faculty Members Welcomed
• Clery Safety Report Now Available
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November 19, 2007: Headlines

• 5 Faculty Named Fellows by AAAS
• Galaxy Observed ‘Stealing’ Gas from Smaller Neighbor
• Dynes Urges Faculty to Participate in Presidential Selection
• Survey: Elected Local Officials Changing U.S. Politics
• Political Scientist Jennings Hailed as ‘Giant’ in Social Sciences
• Math Dept. Has First CAREER Award
• PWA Seeks Stand-in Santas
• Pirate Ship Sinks Competition
• University Art Museum to Initiate Pilot Projects
• Open Enrollment Ends Nov. 27
• UCen’s First Organic Food Fair
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October 22, 2007: Headlines

• UCSB’s External Research Funding Reaches Record $176 Million
• $10 Million MacArthur Grant Launches New Law and Neuroscience Program
• Researchers, Writers Bask In Glory of Nobel Peace Prize
• Open Enrollment Time to Survey Medical Plan Changes
• Endangered Kelp Found in Deep Tropical Waters
• Halloween Parking Plans Announced
• Flu Clinics Set
• Retirement Health Care Requires Understanding Multiple Systems
• $3 Million Gift to Endow UCSB Stem Cell Chair
• True Story Leads to Award-Winning Play
• Series Salutes Civic Courage
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October 8, 2007: Headlines

• Faculty Salaries to Rise Following New 4-Year Plan
• Study: Dropouts Cost State $46.4 Billion
• Devereux Escrow Closes
• Japan, Montenegro to Host 2 UCSB Fulbright Scholars
• UCSB Offers Retirement Planning
• Car-Sharing Program Expands Beyond TAP Members
• Voter Sign-Ups to End Oct. 22
• A&L Spreads a Cultural Buffet
• Researchers Detect Nonconscious Visual Tracking System
• Walter Capps’s Concerns to Be Focus of Events
• Students Required to Take Alcohol Education Course
• Halloween Costume Contest Looms
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September 24, 2007: Headlines

• Campus’s Funding Campaign Total Climbs Above $430 Million
• Gale Morrison Named Dean of Graduate Division
• Conference to Salute ‘Don Luis’ at 100
• New Budget Sets UC Employee Salary Pool at 5%
• UC: No Pension Pay-In for 2007
• UCSB Engineering II Addition Approved
• OLLI Expands Courses, Instructor Pool this Fall
• Stanford Selected Head of Counseling
• Dynes Plans to Step Down Next Year
• Study Finds that Flowers Evolve to Match Pollinators’ Mouthparts
• Novelist to Receive Leal Award Sept. 29
• Cultivating a Day of Caring
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July 16, 2007: Headlines

• UCSB Benefits Manager Elected to President’s Pension Advisory Board
• Biologist Wins New Chair in Biotechnology
• CNSI Chair Goes to Director Hu
• Study Plans to Probe Limits of Internet Credibility, Users’ Savvy
• LBNL Employee to Advise Regents
• Sea Sponge Genes Reveal Origins of Nervous System
• Appointments Roundup
• MRI Installation Successful
• Sustainability Conference Tests Ideas to Lighten Its Own Impact
• Carrying the Torch
• Regents Visit UCSB
• Alumni Honor 2007 Awardees
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June 25, 2007: Headlines

• Commencement Provides Grads a Smooth Sendoff
• Stem Cell Grant Called ‘Crucial’
• $12.5 Million Given to Advance Nanosciences at UCSB
• Autism Research Center to Include Asperger Program
• UCSB Faculty Gains 2 New Fulbright Scholars
• Convocation Sign ups Due June 29
• Women Authors Celebrated
• Some Parking Rates, TAP Fees to Increase; Bus Service Expands
• Walking for Pirates’ Plunder
  
• UCSB Service Brings Acclaim
• Partial Summer Business Hours
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May 29, 2007: Headlines

• Budget Revision Follows UC Pact
• Pension Pay-in Plan Delayed
• Staff Service Hailed, Trainees Lauded
• Preview of Commencement 2007
• Proposed 18-Year UCSB Development Plan Sketched in Annual Campus Report
• Meteor May Have Doomed Megafauna
• Distressed Student Workshop on May 31
• Teaching, Mentorship Honored for 2006-07
• Student Resource Building Officially Opens
• Elections Begin for UCRS Advisor Board
• 3 Historians Win Fellowships
• Sustainability Meet to Be June 24-27
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May 14, 2007: Headlines

• Rights Film Fest to Run 3 Days
• UCSB Provides New Members to U.S., International Academies
• Veteran Staffer Mori Named Ombuds
• From Food to Fun, Wellness Fair Has Wide Appeal
• Freshman Class Shows that Quality, Quantity Are Compatible
• Survey Finds Qualified Support for Immigrants
• UCSB Grad Programs Ranked Among Best
• Cold War Forum Set
• HR Director Suggests Tips to Staff on UC Career Advancement
• UCSB Libraries Expand Online Music Collections
• L&S College Offers Leadership Opportunities
• Mentors Needed for Summer Program
• Regents’ Lecturer Nominations Due
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April 30, 2007: Headlines

• Musical Performances to Be Motif of Staff Celebration Week ’07
• Stem Cell Pioneer to Speak May 1 on Cancer Research
• Mellichamps Endow 4 Chairs to Focus on Globalization
• Virginia Tech Killings Stir UCSB Community
• Teachers and the Uncertain Future of America
• Wellness Fair Set for May 16
• Open House Attracts 8,000
• Composting in Name of Sustainability Means Time to Send in the Worms
• Comments Sought on ‘Open Access’ Copyright Proposal
• Tip-a-Cop Goes Latin
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April 16, 2007: Headlines

• Two Faculty Win Guggenheims
• ‘Catastrophe’ Author Kolbert to Visit Campus for Global Warming Talk
• Ethics ‘Briefing’ Available Now Online
• Human Eye Gene Enables Mice to See New Colors
• UCSB Offers Admission to Record 22,168 Applicants for Fall
• Media’s Limits Influence Environmental Issues
• Events Continue for UCSB Reads
• Lecturer Sets Poetry to Video, Tackles New Media
• TAP to End Free Bus Rides July 1
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April 2, 2007: Headlines

• Sociologist Wins Plous Award
• Lower-Paid University Workers to Receive Boost in Paychecks
• NSF Awards CAREER Grants to 5 Faculty
• Commencement Recruitment Begins
• Work on East Entrance Gateway Arch May Begin in Late Spring
• Grasslands Research Shows Human Impact on Biodiversity
• Book Analyzes Darfur Disaster
• FITSCo Workshops Set
• Tribe’s Language Survives Through Linguists’ Publications
• New Mailer Seeks Alumni Support
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March 19, 2007: Headlines

• UCSB Scientists Play Key Role in Energy Probe
• Fisher Is New Faculty Research Lecturer
• Board Wrestles with Parking Revenue Ideas
• Chancellor: University Plans to Purchase Devereux School Parcel; Foundation to Lease Back Land
• Time-Warner to Settle UC Lawsuit for $246 Million
• United Way Drive Surpasses Goal
• Sign Up Now for Children’s Day
• Campus Plants Offer Exotic Classroom
• Passport Office Opens in Rec Cen
• ‘Unsung Heroines’ Wanted by April 20
• University Service Nominees Sought
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March 5, 2007: Headlines

• Researcher Helps to Launch New Year of Polar Exploration
• UCSB Part of NRC Assessment
• Silk Road Sounds Serenade Campus, City this Week
• Sloan Fellowships Awarded to 3 Young Faculty Researchers
• Some Linguistic Minority Students Lag in Elementary School
• Tenured Women Faculty Lauded
• Web Site on American Presidency Offers Gold Mine of Sources
• Symphony to Rehearse for Staff
• All-Gaucho Reunion Has ‘Early Bird’ Rate
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February 20, 2007: Headlines

• New Approach to Alzheimer’s Wins Chemist NIH Funding
• Seminal Book Revisits Issues of Wealth, Race, and Inequality
• United Way Drive to End on Feb. 27
• Study Detects Sibling ID Mechanism
• Black History Hits a High Note
• Some Parking May Serve as Storage
• Communication, Political Science Depts. Ranked Among U.S. Top 10
• Digital Window Opens on Rare Collection of Ancient English Ballads
• UCSB Named to Defense Research Group with $12.5-Million in Funding
• Invest Sessions Set
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February 5, 2007: Headlines

• Lighting Center Team Creates First Nonpolar Blue-Violet Laser
• NASA Funds UCSB Mars Soil Probe
• Book Captures U.S. Metaphysical Religion’s Evolution
• Tide Still Rising as Applicants Set New Record
• Regents Ratify Permanent Adviser Post
• Blowing Whistle on Wrongdoing Seldom a Simple Thing
• Parking Boards Resume Meetings
• Research: Asian Americans Hesitate to Seek Help from Social Networks
• Staff Excellence Nominations Due Feb. 16
• Candy Gram Sale Closes on Feb. 5
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January 22, 2007: Headlines

• Draft Campus Sustainability Plan ‘a Work in Progress,’ Says Official
• Gov.’s Proposed Budget Lacks UCRP, Student Fee Funding
• Regents Approve North Campus Housing Projects
• Climate Crisis Topic of ‘UCSB Reads’
• Diplomat New Policymaker-in-Residence
• New Resource Opens to Campus Web Developers
• Award-Winning Play to Be Read in L.A.
• UCSB Faculty Aid Film Festival
• Widespread Bias Against Singles Described by Social Psychologist
• Step Up to Fitness
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January 8, 2007: Headlines

• Campus Offers a Sampler from Ancient Silk Road
• Burnham Institute Establishes Medical Research Center at UCSB
• County to Build Isla Vista Foot Patrol’s New Home on University Land
• UCSB Soccer Champs Feted
• United Way Campaign Begins Jan. 18
• ‘Apocalypto’ Trips Over Attempt at Reel Authenticity
• Outreach Project Proposals Due
• UCSB-Terra Image Pact Expanded
• Large-Scale Study Examines New Treatment for Adults Who Stutter
• Campus Energy Appetite Grows
• Study Rates UC in Top Tier for Tech Transfer
• New Critical Issues Series: ‘Torture and the Future’
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