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Our Chair and cordon bleu chef, Dan Montello, sums it up: “The Spring 2015 Barbecue was another rousing success. A nice turnout consumed the usual 40+ pounds of seasoned tri-tip, with a few pounds of hot links thrown in for variety. Yingjie Hu tastified the portabella caps for vegetarians with not one but two varieties of teriyaki sauce. The evening was sunny but cool and a little windy (grilling at the beach requires big...

The following is from an article posted on the spatial@ucsb web site regarding a poster exhibit and plenary session held June 2, 2015: There is a spatial component at the core of all search. On one hand, search technologies rely on a spatial metaphor: We talk about going to our favorite websites, searching for fragments in an overwhelmingly large space of documents, images, and videos. On the other hand, geographic space is essential...

Effective the end of June 2015, Bernadette Weinberg and Beilei Zhang will retire as staff members of the UCSB Department of Geography. A formal farewell for our dynamic duo was held on the first floor of Ellison Hall on the afternoon of June 3, in the form of an open house retirement celebration and a presentation of plaques and gifts. To quote some wag’s farewell note to them, “Now who is going to do all the work around...