
Westmont students learn bee business to help Uganda
By Marissa Nall / Friday, June 17th, 2016 / Higher Education, middle / Comments Off on Westmont students learn bee business to help Uganda

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Initiative to help startups at UC campuses included in state budget bill
By Staff Report / Thursday, June 16th, 2016 / Higher Education, Latest news, Law & Goverment, Technology / Comments Off on Initiative to help startups at UC campuses included in state budget bill

California lawmakers included an initiative to help startups at UC campuses throughout California in a $122.5 billion budget passed by the legislature June 15. Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, proposed the initiative, which will give $2 million every year to each UC campus and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to start or expand business incubators. Read More →

Biasotti: New SBCC president faces challenge of success
By Tony Biasotti / Friday, June 10th, 2016 / Columns, Higher Education, Latest news / Comments Off on Biasotti: New SBCC president faces challenge of success

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Fraud charges cap sad demise of Melchiori
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, June 10th, 2016 / Editorials, Higher Education, Latest news, Opinion, Real Estate, Tourism / Comments Off on Fraud charges cap sad demise of Melchiori

It was an iconic company among general contractors and its rise marked a pivot point in Santa Barbara’s emergence as a hub for tourism and technology in the 1990s. Ugo Melchiori, an immigrant from Northern Italy, turned skills as a craftsman into a business that, beginning in the late 1980s, was nearly as powerful as Read More →

Pacifica Graduate Institute 40 years old and growing
By Marissa Nall / Friday, June 10th, 2016 / Higher Education, middle / Comments Off on Pacifica Graduate Institute 40 years old and growing

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Westmont College alumnus mourned after UCLA shooting
By Staff Report / Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 / Higher Education, Latest news / Comments Off on Westmont College alumnus mourned after UCLA shooting

A Westmont College alumnus was the victim of an apparent murder-suicide at UCLA on June 1 in a dispute over intellectual property. William Klug, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, was killed in the shooting which left Klug, 39, and the shooter, Mainak Sarkar, dead. Sarkar was a former graduate student Read More →

UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition breeds winners
By Philip Joens / Friday, May 27th, 2016 / Higher Education, Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition breeds winners

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