Starting today in Santa Maria, an outreach residency will bring the Los Angeles-based Mexican folk dance group Danza Floricanto to four high schools and two middle schools in the north county over four days. The residency, presented by Arts & Lectures, features lecture-demonstrations in Santa Maria, Guadalupe, and Lompoc as well as two evening public performances.

HONORS & AWARDS

Steven K. Fisher, professor and founding director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, was presented this month with the International Society for Eye Research's 2002 Ludwig von Sallman Prize for "outstanding contributions to vision and ophthalmology."

Kurt Helfrich, curator of the University Art Museum's Architecture and Design Collection, has been awarded more than $183,000 by the J. Paul Getty Trust to fund research costs for a traveling exhibition in 2005 about the architectural work of Antoin and Noémi Raymond.

Composer Curtis Roads, associate professor of music, won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music at the 2002 Ars Electronica competition. It was for his composition "Point, Line, Cloud."

PUBLICATIONS

E. Bruce Robertson, professor of art and architecture, has with Robert Dance co-authored "Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography" (UC California Press, 2002) to accompany a traveling retrospective of this MGM photographer's work from the late 1920s.

TRANSITIONS

Dennis Olson, former library budget analyst, has been promoted to the new position of business officer for Davidson Library. In addition to budget and accounting, he will coordinate statistical reporting, administrative services, and serve as liaison for building renovation and physical facilities tasks.

Scot Weiner, former director of alumni relations at Woodbury University in Burbank, is UCSB's new director of development, regional, and annual giving.