Faculty and staff are encouraged to announce a competition to promote "significant undergraduate scholarship, including creative work and activity such as performance." Sponsored by the UCSB Emeriti Association, the contest offers juniors and seniors in any field a $500 scholarship for the winning project. All projects, which must be submitted by March 12, 2004, require a sponsoring faculty member and his or her letter of support. For more details, contact David Sprecher at 568-0681 or sprecher@math.ucsb.edu.

HONORS & AWARDS

Co-author Milton Love's new book, "The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific," received honorable mention 2003 from the National Outdoor Book Awards in their Nature Guidebook category.

Jason Raley, assistant professor of education, will participate as one of nine teacher educators in a program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. His project will focus on ways K-12 teachers can raise awareness of equity and democracy issues among student teachers.

Joel Rothman, professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, has been elected to a three-year term as a trustee of the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara.

Each month the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) awards two $50 gift certificates from the UCSB Bookstore to TAP participants. In September, the winners were carpool commuter Steven Johnson, a library assistant, and bike rider Kim Olsen, a geology researcher. October's winners were bike rider Adina Abeles, a Bren graduate student, and car pooler Divy Agrawal, computer science professor. November's were van pooler Roberto Aguilera, transportation & parking, and biker rider Marco Aimi, a nanoscience researcher. December's are bike rider Mustafa Akbulut, a chemical engineering researcher, and car pooler Sue Alemdar of KITP.

PUBLICATIONS

William J. Ashby, College of Creative Studies provost, and John W. DuBois, associate professor of linguistics, co-edited with Cal State Long Beach scholar Lorraine E. Kumpf "Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as Architecture for Function" (John Benjamins, 2003).

IN MEMORIAM

Margaret Getman, former UCSB dean of student residents, died on Nov. 17 in Santa Barbara. The Colorado native was 82. She served in similar administrative positions at Arkansas State College and Stanford University before joining UCSB in 1961. Following her retirement in 1984, UCSB established in her name an annual award for staff or faculty for improving the campus's quality of life. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 11 a.m. at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara.