Adam Sandler Entertains, Opens up to Students at Film Screening
Campbell Hall was filled to capacity last night for an advanced screening of Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, “That’s My Boy,” followed by a Q&A with comedian and co-star Nick Swardson. The sold-out screening of “That’s My Boy” left many students reminiscent of their childhood “Happy Gilmore” days — Sandler’s most renowned flick in the Happy [...]
Journalist To Recap Travels, Discuss Novel
Travel writer Pico Iyer will discuss his latest novel The Man Within My Head, which details his extraordinary worldwide quest to relive the experiences of English writer Graham Greene, at the Lobero Theatre tonight at 7 p.m. The event will also feature Iyer’s close friend and fellow travel writer Don George, and all proceeds will [...]
Engineering Challenge To Cross Borders and Disciplines, Address Humanitarian Issues
UCSB’s Engineers Without Borders chap- ter will hold its first annual Social Ventures Competition later this month, inviting par- ticipants to submit original project proposals targeting social and developmental concerns across the globe. Teams of one to five students may either address the issue of water quality in the Ecuadorian town of El Tesoro or [...]
LED Researchers Propose New Design to Correct for Inefficient ‘Drooping’
The UCSB Solid State Lighting and Energy Center research team, led by engineering professors Shuji Nakamura and Steven DenBaars, presented a new energy-efficient design for LED manufacturing at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in San Jose last week. Though much more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, LEDs experience a drop in efficiency, referred to [...]
The Seventh Wonder of the World
As a freshman at UCSB, Barbara Nwaba didn’t know what the heptathlon was. Now, it may be the event that takes her to the Olympics. “I’ve always had big dreams and [the heptathlon] is what I think will get me there,” Nwaba said. “I’m so blessed [my coach] put me in it. I feel like [...]
