The Professional Women's Association at UCSB is devoting the whole month of May to collecting quality women and men's clothing suitable for wear to a job interview. PWA, which is working with the Job Smart program, asks that the clothes be "ready to wear," and should be on hangers for drop off at any of the seven locations on campus. E-mail (pamela.wilkinson@audit.ucsb.edu) or call Pam Wilkinson (x5344) in audit services for the drop-off sites at the various locations.

Any employee formerly covered by an Aetna medical plan–UC Care, Core, or High Option Medicare Supplement (retiree) programs–who is receiving bills that the insurance carrier should pay is urged to contact Laura Morgan in the Health Care Facilitator Office (x4201). "Aetna is no longer insuring any of our medical plans," said Morgan, and its customer service center is moving from Los Angeles this summer. She hopes to resolve any remaining problems before the move.

HONORS & AWARDS

Betty Huff, assistant vice chancellor, student affairs, has been elected vice president for leadership and management development for a national society of higher education administrators. She will hold this office in the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers for three years.

Mario T. Garcia, professor of Chicano studies and history, has been appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara Book Council, a nonprofit group that sponsors the annual Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival.

David Tambo, head of special collections for the Davidson Library, has received the University Librarian's Nyholm Award for 2002, which honors "outstanding contributions to librarianship."

Sarah Cline, professor of history, has coauthored a comprehensive history of Mexico and the American Southwest between 1325 and 1821 with Ida Altman and Javier Pescador in "The Early History of Greater Mexico" (Prentice Hall, 2003).

Robert O. Collins, professor emeritus of history, has published a sweeping study of the people and lands of the Nile basin in "The Nile" (Yale University Press, 2002).

TRANSITIONS

Debra D. Park, previously development director for the UCSB libraries, is now the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education's director of development and alumni relations. She worked at the IEEE before joining UCSB in 2001.