The annual Faculty Phonathon to influence UC-eligible students to select UCSB has been scheduled for the evenings of April 9 and April 10. The goal is to have 80 faculty participants, with at least one representative from each department, who will make between 3,000 and 4,000 phone calls, according to Academic Senate Chair Richard Watts. A buffet dinner will be served each evening. Volunteers may signup on the Senate Web site <senate@ucsb.edu/phonathon> or by calling x2885.

Leslie Horgan, lecturer in music composition at the College of Creative Studies, has been awarded a Charles Ives Fellowship, worth $15,000, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received one of two Ives fellowships given nationally this year by the academy.

Erendira McCormick, Admissions Office assistant, placed seventh in her age group at the Los Angeles Marathon earlier this month. Her time won her 39th place among the top 450 women, which was seven rungs higher than her rank in the 1999 marathon.

UCSB Arts & Lectures has been chosen as a National Dance Project hub site, one of 12 performing arts centers selected across the nation for the 2002-05 term and the only one in California. The project, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts, supports the production and touring of contemporary dance works.

Cathi Arnold, a former director of nursing at St. Francis Medical Center, is now management services officer for the two departments in biological sciences. She replaced Larry Nicklin, who retired last year.

Terry Damerel is the manager of constituent records for the Office of Development. She was formerly director of licensing for the Tournament of Roses organization in Pasadena, Calif.

Dale Kunkel, professor of communication, has been named the new director of the UCSB Washington Center. The principal investigator for the National Television Violence Study will take charge of the UC/DC program this fall.

Professor Evelyn Hu is the head of iQUEST, which stands for the Institute for Quantum Engineering, Science, and Technology. She was director of QUEST, the National Science Foundation's Center for Quantized Electronic Structures, until it ceased to exist. The groups were mixed up in a March 4 article.