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
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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
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Dubroff: Creating CSU satellite campus makes sense for Santa Maria
Sometimes it only takes a single slide to make your point. So when Allan Hancock College President Kevin Walthers began his May 6 talk in Santa Maria, the first image was an eye-opener. It said “California’s Higher Education Desert” and 300 North Santa Barbara County leaders who attended the UCSB Economic Forecast Summit early that Read More →
Chancellor likes CSUCI’s plan for engineering degree
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Frosts pledge $20 million for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo research center
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has received a pledge of $20 million from alumnus William L. Frost and his wife, Linda, toward construction of a planned multidisciplinary undergraduate research and technology center on campus. The Frosts have pledged the gift in support of Cal Poly’s comprehensive polytechnic education and in hopes of attracting additional donations Read More →
