New Santa Barbara chamber chief takes analytical approach
Ken Oplinger is an affable guy on a listening tour.
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Scott London pleads guilty as accounting profession asks ‘why?’
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Read More →Ruling on UCSB researcher’s death unlikely to provide real answer
By the time you read this, a coroner’s inquest into the death in Singapore of a promising young UC Santa Barbara-trained scientist will be headed toward a verdict. The coroner’s ruling cannot be appealed and thus it will be the official word on whether Shane Todd was murdered or committed suicide. It is a case Read More →
Read More →E&Y Entrepreneur awards should consider impact of region’s finalists
Three companies from our region will be competing next month in the Greater Los Angeles segment of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year awards.
Read More →Springs Fire throws another challenge at CSU Channel Islands
It could be the understatement of the decade to say that nothing has come easily for CSU Channel Islands. The university, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, was created out of a former mental hospital after years of wrangling by area leaders over a suitable location. It emerged from the shadow of its start-up Read More →
Read More →Ex-energy secretary to U.S. technologists: Make it happen here
Steven Chu does not mince words about U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing.
Read More →Former Energy Secretary calls for manufacturing renaissance
In his first speech since stepping down as U.S. Secretary of Energy in late April, Steven Chu said American needs to actually produce the things it invents or risk losing competitiveness on the global stage. Speaking at the 2013 Summit on Energy Efficiency in Santa Barbara, he pressed scientists from UC Santa Barbara and elsewhere Read More →
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