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Professor Keith Clarke has been selected as one of three recipients of the 2014/15 UCSB Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. The award was initiated in 2005/06 in recognition of UCSB faculty whose mentoring is considered exemplary, and Professor Clarke is the fourth faculty member of the Department of Geography to have been given it (Reg Golledge received the award in 2005/06, Dar Roberts received it in 2007/08 and Rick Church received...

“With Earth Day less than a week away, Princeton Review just provided some solid evidence of UC Santa Barbara’s unwavering commitment to sustainability.” George Foulsham, writing for The UCSB Current on April 16, 2015 goes on to state: UCSB has just been ranked No. 3 in the nation in Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges. Further, the two colleges ahead of UCSB in the rankings, Lewis & Clark College of...

The following is a NASA announcement, written by Felicia Chou and Ray Villard and posted January 5, 2015 with the title above: Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.” The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the...