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    CAMPUS NOTES

    Missing Open Enrollment Packet?
    Some UCSB employees have reported failing to receive Open Enrollment packets, all of which UC had mailed out by Nov. 1. Benefits Manager Tricia Hiemstra advises such employees that a quick way to retrieve the missing information is to go to <http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/
    open_enrollment/employees/cal/cal_index.html>.


    Cooking Up Thanksgiving Dinner
    A.S. Community Affairs Board is seeking appropriate canned food or cash contributions for its annual Thanksgiving Dinner for Isla Vista's homeless and low-income families. Set for Nov. 23 at the University Religious Center, the project needs donations delivered before then to Pam Van Dyk (x4296) at CAB in UCen 2523. Van Dyk is also coordinating a book drive for Friendship Manor in I.V. Books in good condition should be dropped off at CAB offices no later than Dec. 2.



    HONORS & AWARDS

    Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, chair of the Media Arts & Technology Program, has taken the 2002-03 grand prize in electronic music from the International Society of Bassists. She won for her work, "Paleo," which is written for double bass.


    Crystal L. Martin, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded one of the 24 prestigious Packard Foundation Fellowships in Science and Engineering given out in 2002. The astrophysicist joined UCSB in 2001.


    Ronald W. Tobin, associate vice chancellor, academic programs, and professor of French, was granted honorary membership in the American Association of Teachers of French for his "distinguished, lifelong commitment" to the field. He also was named to the Board of Regents of his alma mater, Saint Peter's College of Jersey City in New Jersey.



    PUBLICATIONS

    Milton S. Love, associate research biologist, is lead author of the 416-page, full-color reference book "The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific" (University of California Press, 2002). The reason for this book: "Rockfishes are cool."


    TRANSITIONS


    Anna Everett, associate professor of film studies, has been appointed director of the Center for Black Studies, where she had been acting director. She joined UCSB in 1997.



    Carlos Morton, professor of dramatic art, has been named director of the Center for Chicano Studies. The playwright joined UCSB in 2002.