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This quarter, the lagoon road became a racetrack as Gaucho Racing tested their GR26 racecar in preparation for this year’s competition season. Gaucho Racing races against around 100 other universities, judged on both engineering and car performance. Courtesy of Gaucho Racing Gaucho Racing is a student organization that designs, builds, manufactures and tests their very own Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) electric vehicle.

On Thursday, May 7, Canvas, the online learning platform, was shut down at UC Santa Barbara after a cyberattack caused an Instructure data breach. The attack was organized by a cybercriminal group known as “ShinyHunters.” Although UCSB was not on the list of hacked schools, Canvas was shut down “out of an abundance of caution” from the UC and was restored to operation two days later.

President of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, discussed the importance of humanitarian relief and refugee aid in the face of major global conflicts and widespread need on April 22. Miliband is a former member of the British Parliament and served as foreign secretary of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. Courtesy of UCSB Arts and Lectures The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development non-governmental organization founded in 1933.