Dr. Jane Close Conoley, the dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School visited KCSB this morning to talk about the Harding University Partnership between UCSB and Santa Barbara School Districts. Dean Conoley shared the details of the deal which will bring needed support to the struggling neighborhood school using an International Baccalaureate model. Visit the podcast page for more info including audio of the interview.
Julia Nagy, the executive director of the Tri-Counties Division of the American Heart Association was in studio today with Tim and me on Intents & Purposes to talk about the organization’s 2010 Go Red For Women campaign along with the event’s chair Janet Garufis, president and CEO of Montecito Bank and Trust. The Heart Association will host a fundraising Women’s Health Expo on March 5, 2010 at Fess Parker’s Double Tree Resort. We discussed building healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke and simple ways to make big healthy changes. Check out this week’s podcast page.
Levi and Tim speak with the director of UCSB’s Meso American Research Center and the recipient of the 2000 Rolex Award for Enterprise, Dr. Anabel Ford. She has dedicated years to the study of the ancient city of El Pilar. This historic Maya community sits on the border of Guatemala and Belize. Dr. Ford contests, contrary to many of her colleagues, that El Pilar is a model of the sustainable practice of “forest gardening.” She and her team have worked diligently to study, understand and preserve this early gem. Check out this week’s podcast page.
This one from the This-Guy-Could-Be-Him file:
The FBI recently used a photograph of Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares as an example of what Osama Bin Laden might look like today.
According to Reuters, FBI special agent Jason Pack said a forensic artist had been unable to find suitable features from the FBI’s database of photographs and used a picture from the Internet instead. That photo turned out to be one of Llamazares who apparently looks strikingly similar to what the FBI thinks Bin Laden would look like with a few extra years on him.
“I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo — but it could have been anyone’s — to compose a picture of a terrorist. It affects my honor, my own image and also the security of all us,” LLamazares said in a statement.
High surf earlier this week at Santa Barbara’s Arroyo Burro Beach (Hendry’s Beach as it is known locally) has severely damaged the formerly sandy seashore. The photo above shows the aftermath of the big waves that pummeled the coast below the Douglas Family Preserve, unearthing jagged rocks that lay hidden beneath the sand. Beach-goers will notice that easy access is essentially cut off by the wet, slippery. and treacherous terrain. As of Thursday January 14 the shoreline just below Selrose Lane, southeast to the Mesa Lane staircase has been affected.
Levi and Tim kick of their KCSB premiere with Cathy Murillo, KCSB’s news director. Cathy highlighted the station’s contributions to the community with coverage of important visitors like the Dalai Lama, and emergency news coverage of local wildfires and future floods. Check out this week’s podcast page.
As the Santa Barbara School Board ponders the fate of the Cesar Chavez Charter School Dr. Jin Sook Lee was in the studio today with Tim and me on Intents & Purposes Radio to discuss the the school’s unique dual-language immersion program. Dr. Lee is a professor of Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on understanding how societal, cultural, and psychological variables influence the way people learn foreign languages. Check out this week’s podcast page.
This fall my colleague Timothy Grigsby and I started a new public affairs and eclectic music public radio show called Intents & Purposes on KCSB/KJUC Santa Barbara. Our latest episode features studio guests from City at Peace Santa Barbara, a non-profit organization helping teenagers to create safe, peaceful and productive lives through performing arts. Their group is hosting a climate awareness gathering tomorrow along with others around the world called Project 350. Also we featured music tracks from Systems Officer, David Bazan among others and a special international block.
UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Learning and Inquiry in Networking Communities (LINC) and the California Virtual Campus were the recipients of the 2009 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award, a competition that recognizes innovative uses of educational technologies in higher education for their project: Stepping Into Your Future. LINC Director Beth Yeager and I produced this video to highlight the project which has improved student retention and pass rates for K-12 students preparing for California’s English and Math high school exit exams.
During my class’s break today at The Anacapa School the students walked out to find a giant tour bus in front of the school with a likeness of Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on the side. Perry emerged from Our Daily Bread bakery across the street, jaywalked (which is against school rules, ha) to campus and signed autographs for each and every student. Fortunately for him it is a small school.
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