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Oleanders (Nerium oleander) are everywhere in southern California; or at least they were. The showy and fragrant flowers come in several colors, and the low maintenance shrubs are drought and frost resistant, making them ideal as landscaping for parks, freeway median plantings, privacy hedges, and ornamentals for home gardens. Despite the fact that all parts of the plant are poisonous, only three deaths due to exposure to oleander...

Willie McBride graduated in 2012 with Outstanding Achievement as a Geography Major (awarded to students graduating with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher), and his quest for outstanding achievements continues – he’s now in training with a friend, Dane Wilson, to make the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team of the 49er Skiff. “The 49er’s name comes from its hull length of 4.99 meters. It incorporates ideas developed in...

Alumna Yihong Yuan successfully defended her dissertation in November 2013 (Chair: Adjunct Geography faculty member Martin Raubal at ETH Zurich), and she just wrote to say, “I recently received a government award (“Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad”). I applied for the award when I was still a UCSB student, so I thought this might be something interesting for the department news....