The national conference of the Association for Women in Communications featured founding President of the Santa Barbara chapter Lois Phillips, PhD, as its 2011 Headliner Award recipient on October 14, in Tulsa, OK.
Are you still operating a motor vehicle despite losing the privilege to do so?
With so many features offered by online social media, it is a shame that Americans don’t have a better way to elect our government officials into office.
Screens keep trash and debris from reaching local creeks and the ocean.
The first 22 homes of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean Walk faculty housing project have been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Casa Serena has recently appointed Marisa Pasquini as the new Development Director of the nonprofit organization.
An innovative piece of oil-spill recovery equipment – evolved from a design created at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in 2006 by Victoria Broje, who was a graduate student working in the research group of Bren professor Arturo Keller – has won the $1 million top prize in the 2011 Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE.
In response to the U.S. Coast Guard’s notice in today’s Federal Register that it has released its Port Access Route Study (PARS) for the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports (LA/LB), the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) praised the agency for recommending shifts in shipping lane locations within the Santa Barbara Channel that may help reduce the threat of ship strikes for blue, fin, humpback, and other large whales.
On Tuesday, November 1, at 11:30 a.m., at its regularly scheduled meeting, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will adopt a resolution called, “Resolution Honoring Direct Relief International for Receiving the Prestigious Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.”
They were the sitcoms of their time – lowbrow comedies that lampooned every serious topic, from sex and relationships to politics and religion.
