Guy Kawasaki, CEO of Garage.com, will keynote the March 9 Entrepreneurship 101 Conference "Creating Value in Turbulent Times." The annual event will start this year at 8:30 a.m. in Corwin Pavilion. Registration is $45 for UCSB faculty or staff; early signups are encouraged on-line www. engineering.ucsb.edu .

Two-year directorships are now open to applicants for Education Abroad Programs in Australia and Chile, according to systemwide EAP. The positions, which begin on Jan. 1, 2003, require "fluency in the language of the host country" as well as a broad knowledge of it. Tenured faculty and emerti professors are eligible; applications must be in by March 22. Contact x4233.

France Cordova, vice chancellor for research, and Michael Goodchild, professor of geography, have received lifetime appointments as national associates to the National Academies. The honorary title is for extraordinary service to federal research, technology, or health entities, such as the National Research Council.

Bruce Luyendyk, chair and professor of geological sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, one of only 36 new Fellows selected world-wide from some 36,000 AGU members. His selection was based, in part, on "pioneering work on vertical-axis crustal rotationsÉ"

Douglas Daniels, professor of black studies and history, has published a new jazz biography, "Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Prez' Young" (Beacon Press, 2001).

John Wilson, College of Creative Studies' lecturer in literature, links visuals to words in "Ink on Paper: Poems on Chinese and Japanese Paintings" (City Lights, 2001).

Richard "Dick" Hebdige, professor of film studies and Art Studio, is the new director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. A scholar of popular culture, he was a dean at the California Institute of the Arts for the past nine years.

As of last fall, graduate student enrollment was 2,649, the highest in UCSB's history, not the lower figure reported in the Feb. 4 story on grad student aid.