“UCSB is listed among the top national universities in Washington Monthly’s 2015 rankings; the campus also is lauded as an ‘Access Improver’ for low-income students.” The following article was written by Andrea Estrada for The UCSB Current and was posted on August 24, 2015 with the title “In the Top Echelon”: UC Santa Barbara has moved up a notch in Washington Monthly magazine’s annual National Universities Rankings....
Read More“Each year, we drench our lawns with enough water to fill the Chesapeake Bay! That makes grass – not corn – America’s largest irrigated crop. Our nation’s lawns now cover an area larger than New York State, and, each year, we use about 2.4 million metric tons of fertilizer just to maintain them. When there is too much fertilizer on our lawns, essential nutrients are easily washed away by sprinklers and rainstorms. When these nutrients...
Read MoreLocation, location, location still matters in a world made smaller by the Internet and social media. Sonia Ferandez, in an article for The UCSB Current, posted on August 17, 2015 with the title above, goes on to say: In 1970, geographer, cartographer, and UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus Waldo Tobler said, “Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” This “first...
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