November , 2009: Headlines

• Private Giving Drops to $40.6 M for FY 2008-09
• External Research Support Shows Slight Decline
• New Dean Named for Bren School
• Open Enrollment Continues Through November 24
• UC Commission Members Hold Forum at UCSB; Others to Follow Systemwide
• Afterlife
• Off-Campus Studies Center in Ventura Scheduled to Close Due to Budget Cuts
• UC Announces ‘Project You Can’
• Nobel Laureate Alumna
• Michael T. Brown Appointed Acting Dean of Extended Learning Services
• Campus Announces First-Ever Sustainability Champions
• Trade Union Agrees to Furloughs
• Yang Elected Chair of Association of American Universities
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October, 2009: Headlines

• Campus Feels Effects of Budget Cuts, Welcomes Students
• Student Health Officials Prepare for Possible Outbreak of H1N1 Flu
• Events to Focus on Future of UC
• 93106 Now Monthly
• Federal Stimulus Grants
• Jamey Marth Named Director of New Nanomedicine Research Center
• Halloween and Campus Parking Restrictions
• New Staff Advisor to Regents Named for 2009-2011
• Lectures Honor Reginald Golledge
• In the Fast Lane: New Book Examines the Thrill of Speed
• Dual-Function Protein May Be a ‘Boon’ to Medicine
• Tiny Diamonds on Santa Rosa Island Offer Evidence of a Cosmic Impact
• Reading Franz Kafka Could Aid Learning, Suggests Psychology Study
• Scholar Offers Firsthand Account of a North Korean Labor Camp Survivor
• Ethnic and Multicultural Archive Launches Teatro Campesino Online
• Flower Colors Show Evolution in Action
• Library Receives Second NEH Grant to Document Historical Recordings
• Strong Men, Attractive Women Prone to Anger and Pro-War Attitudes
• Alzheimer’s Research Project May Result in New Drug Therapies
• Invasive Green Mussel Could Inspire New Forms of Synthetic Adhesives
• Rebuilding Troubled Fisheries Requires More Global Action, Study Shows
• New Buildings for Education, Social Sciences, and Media Studies Open for Start of Fall Quarter
• Projects Receive Multi-Campus Research Awards
• Gift Establishes KITP Endowed Chair
• Author Graciela Limón to Receive Leal Award for Distinction in Literature
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June 22, 2009: Headlines

• Campus Congratulates and Bids Farewell to Class of 2009
• Scientist Bradley Cardinale Receives 2009-10 Plous Award
• Record Number of Students Plan to Register for Fall
• Senior Leaders Take Pay Cut; Yudof Addresses Legislative Committee
• History Scholar Examines Wal-Mart as a Business Model
• Joy Davis to Spend Two Months as Artist-in-Residence in New Mexico
• In Service to Students
• Academic Senate Work Group Seeks Proposals for Sustainability Champion
• Annual Sustainability Conference Continues
• Number of Patents, Inventions Generated by Campus Increases
• COE’s Larry Coldren Named Acting Dean
• Chamber Choir Performs Sacred Music in Italy
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June 1, 2009: Headlines

• Green Building Council Awards Gold Certification to San Clemente Villages
• Celebrating Excellence
• Meetings Highlight University’s Achievements, Budget Challenges
• Voters Give Barack Obama High Marks, Concludes Capps Center’s Zogby Poll
• Campus Gears Up for Commencement
• Scientists Document Fate of Huge Oil Slicks From Seeps at Coal Oil Point
• Grants Totaling $4.9 M Support Research Projects
• Campus Gets Healthy with Week of Wellness
• Certified Supervisors
• Religious Studies Scholar Publishes Volume on History, Culture of Islam
• Restoration Project Provides Model for Future Environmental Efforts
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May 11, 2009: Headlines

• Physicist Peale Honored for Research Achievements
• Educators Recognize Lorraine McDonnell
• Ice Cream, Cookies, and Jack Canfield Highlight Staff Celebration Week
• Banner Day
• Regents Approve Increased Fees
• Campus Assists in Fire Emergency, Houses Evacuees
• MCC Presents First Public Screening of Professor’s New Film on Mothering
• Youth In Action
• Undergraduates Present Research at Colloquium
• Campus Health Officials Monitor Influenza A
• Discovery Advances Understanding of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Function
• New Energy Research Center Funded With $19 Million from Stimulus Act
• United Way Campaign Sets Campus Record
• TGIF Committee Awards Grants
• Three Researchers Honored by Parasitology Association
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April 27, 2009: Headlines

• Library to House Author Lou Cannon’s Reagan and Rodney King Papers
• Digital Media and Learning Innovation Grant Awarded to Carsey-Wolf Center
• UCSB Athletics Program Receives Unconditional NCAA Certification
• Lecture Examines FDR, New Deal
• Art Exhibition
• Religious Studies Scholar Dwight Reynolds Awarded Grant to Create Multimedia Web Site for Ancient Arabic Poem
• Social Science Survey Center Calls for Proposals From Faculty Members
• $6.1 Million Awarded for Collaboration on Diamond-based Quantum Information Processing and Communication
• Panel to Discuss How Economic News Is Reported
• Robert J. Schiller to Give Annual Snyder Lecture
• Dean Matthew Tirrell Named Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• University Art Museum Presents ‘Signs of His Times’
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April 13, 2009: Headlines

• Admission Offered to 21,557 New Students for Fall 2009
• Lectures, Events Surround Visit of the Dalai Lama
• Construction to Begin on MSI Teaching Facility
• Historian Wins Bancroft Book Prize
• Conference to Focus on Central Asia
• Researcher Discusses Brain’s Response to Virtual Violence
• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Study Reveals Fragility of World’s Coral
• Staff Advisors Visit UCSB
• National Academy Elects Mishra
• Special Weekend of Events Welcomes Alumni at Annual All Gaucho Reunion
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March 23, 2009: Headlines

• Leading Scholars Appointed to Globalization Chairs
• Regents Briefed on Budget-Cutting Options for UC
• Scholars to Discuss Language, Culture in California
• Loma Pelona Showcase
• Geographer Reginald Golledge Named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2009
• Spring Insight
• El Colegio Road Improvements Enter Final Phase
• Stem Cell Researchers Applaud Action by President Obama
• Web Site Guides Researchers to New Fund Sources
• Seismological Society Awards Harry Reid Medal to Scientist Archuleta
• Theater Troupe Offers Training in Sexual Harassment Awareness
• MCC 20th Anniversary
• Nominations Sought for Sautter Innovation Award
• Churchill Award to Physics Prodigy
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March 9, 2009: Headlines

$115 Million in New Cuts for UC; Budget Challenge Now $450 Million

Marine Protected Areas Get a Boost From New Web-Based Program

Plous Lecturer to Discuss Black Holes, Dark Matter

Presidency Project Compares Obama With Other Commanders in Chief

Findings of 2008 Housing Survey Now Available

Environmental Scientists Receive Leopold Leadership Fellowships

New Measures Taken to Protect Snowy Plover

Sociologist Denise Segura Honored by Hispanic, Feminist Organizations

Rummage Sale for United Way

Chemist Michael Bowers Wins Humboldt Research Prize

Scientist Awarded Sloan Fellowship

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February 23, 2009: Headlines

• Conference Examines Media Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election
• Public Review Reopens for LRDP
• Communication Department Celebrates 25 Years
• Newly Tenured faculty women
• Lecture Explores Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Scientists Advance Understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Art Historian Publishes Monograph on Ben Enwonwu
• Researchers Share $2.1 Million U.K. Science Grant With Cambridge
• Book Art
• Financial Aid Office Creates FAFSA Tutorial
• Scholars Receive Book Awards from History Associations
• Fisheries Paper Selected the Best Research of 2008 by Journal Nature
• Peace Corps Ranks Campus Among Top 25
• Campus Recognized for Community Service, Student Volunteering
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February 9, 2009: Headlines

• Campuses to Review More First-Year Applications
• Pension Contributions to Resume in April 2010
• UC, Unions Reach Tentative Agreement
• Grant Supports Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
• Marine Scientists Help Google Earth Present Marine Protected Areas
• 54,758 Students Apply for Fall Admission
• Political Scientist Bruhn Examines Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil
• Capps Center Hosts Progressive Religious Voices
• Blue and Gold Plan
• Pilot Composting Project Launched
• Three-Year Grant Supports Research on Disease of the Retina
• Mathematics Professor Receives Cole Prize
• Music Professor Honored by Czech Horn Society
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January 26, 2009: Headlines

• Regents Agree to Trim Enrollment, Freeze Senior Management Pay
• Ushering in a new era
• Balloon Leads Astronomers to New Radio Signal
• Conference Focuses on Food Sustainability, Security
• Scholar Traces Intellectual History of International Political Economy
• Federal Grant Expands Successful Alcohol-Education Effort
• Guest Lecturer to Discuss Housing Prices, Credit, and the Economy
• Walking for a cause
• Films Make Their World Debut at Santa Barbara Festival
• Sociologist Bielby Studies Television and the International Marketplace
• KCSB Resumes Fund Drive Halted by Tea Fire
• Yudof to Propose Extensive Aid for Lower-Income Students
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January 12, 2009: Headlines

• Campus Sets Budget- Reduction Targets
• Yudof Addresses State’s Budget Proposal
• Regents to Consider Plan to Curtail Freshman Enrollment
• Scientists Show Certain Vegetables — Like Broccoli — Can Combat Cancer
• Campus Goes for the Green in National RecycleMania Collegiate Competition
• Labor Conference Examines Trade Unionism Today
• Library of Congress Names Campus Visionary Larry Carver a ‘Pioneer of Digital Preservation’
• ‘UCSB Reads’ Selects Dalai Lama’s ‘Ethics for the New Millennium’
• Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
• Grant Supports Study of Religion and Human Rights Efforts
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