UCSB Professor Receives Award for Graphene Research

Professor Kaustav Banerjee, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named winner of the 2011 international research award by the Electrostatic Discharge Association (ESDA).

Treats for Pound Dogs

There are far too many four-legged critters living their lives in shelters with no family of their own.

Real Estate

If Real Estate’s breakthrough 2009 debut was a sunny ode to the New Jersey shoreline, then its successor is the ideal counterpoint: a slice of suburban life that’s ripe with lo-fi, surfy guitars and effortlessly catchy hooks.

The Stock Market and Faith

To many people, the stock market is a mysterious and unpredictable paramour who will reward us if we invest well and punish us for making poor choices (or for having bad luck).

All Grown Up and Learning to Read

About a year after I retired from teaching, I decided to volunteer to become an adult literacy tutor through the Santa Barbara Public Library system.

News to Yous

The Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s annual Artizan’s Ball, a benefit for Sarah House Hospice, is set to take place Saturday, December 10.

Give a Little

Lompoc-based animal rescue group needs volunteers; Holiday Boutique will benefit Garden Court’s low-income senior-citizen residents.

Tempted by War Bucks

The CBS program 60 Minutes recently reported on the latest double-standard benefiting the privileged: the legality of insider trading by Congress, which has influenced the outcome of our laws.

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