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- UC President-Designate No Stranger to Hard Work
- New Campus
Survey Sketches
Work/Life Pressures on Employees - Taiwan Studies Chair Endowed
- Top Poet to Keynote Convocation
- Beach Preservation Efforts Built on Sand
- Pay Parking Here
- UCSB Chemist Synthesizes Powerful Nutrition Supplement
- Melvyl Catalog Undergoing Major Upgrade
- Lots of G.I.V.E. in Isla Vista
- Campus Adapts to Planning Needs
- CSAC, Staff Assembly Seek Volunteers
- Campus Notes
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Police Bowling Aids Special Olympics
UCSB's Police Department
this year extended their fund-raising activities for the Special Olympics
beyond the traditional Tip-a-Cop meal at the Faculty Club to a bowling
tournament at Zodo's Bowling and Beyond. The June 29 bowling benefit
raised $2,500, according to Sgt. Suzanne Malloy. Combined with the
Tip-a-Cop proceeds, the total raised by campus officers was about
$3,000.
HONORS &
AWARDS
Research biologists Don H. Anderson and Lincoln
V. Johnson received a National Eye Institute grant of over
$900,000 to acquire equipment for protein separation and genomic analyses
for the Neuroscience Research Institute. In addition, the National Institutes
of Health granted these researchers and Steven K. Fisher,
professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, $235,000
for a laser scanning confocal microscope.
Britt Andreatta, director of first year and leadership
education programs for the Office of Student Life, has received a national
Outstanding Experienced Professional Award from the American College
Personnel Association.
Judith Green, professor of education, has accepted
on behalf of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education's Center for the
Teaching of Social Justice a statewide award from the Corporation for
Education Network Initiatives. The award was for "pioneering innovative
uses" of video with elementary school students over the Internet.
Ronald Tobin, associate vice chancellor, academic
programs, had this year's conference of the North American Society for
17th-century French Literature devoted to his work. The Dartmouth College
gathering culminated in a festschrift, a presentation of testimonials
and a book of essays about Tobin's work written by scholars from
around the world.
PUBLICATIONS
Luis Leal, professor of Chicano studies, has published
"Mitos y Leyendas de Mexico/Myths and Legends of Mexico,"
a bilingual anthology of stories ranging from pre-Columbian to independence
(UCSB Center for Chicano Studies, 2002).
TRANSITIONS
Stuart Feinstein, professor of molecular, cellular,
and developmental biology, has been appointed director of UCSB's Neuroscience
Research Institute after serving as the interim director for more than
two years.
Bryant Wieneke, former director of policy and publications
for the Graduate Division, has been hired as executive assistant to
the provost of the College of Letters & Science.