CAMPUS NOTES

The Henley Gate and Steck Circle at the campus’s east entrance have garnered a 2009 Goleta Valley Beautiful Annual Award in the public/institutional category for excellence in design and landscaping. The award was presented to UC Santa Barbara at a ceremony in the Stow House Gardens on May 3.
Goleta Valley Beautiful is an independent community-based, nonprofit organization. Its mission is “to enhance sustainable public beauty in the Goleta Valley.” Last year alone, Goleta Valley Beautiful organized over 1,400 volunteers who devoted more than 5,000 hours of community service in planting nearly 500 trees and carrying out other beautification projects.

Oliver Chadwick, professor and chair of geography, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Chadwick was cited for “outstanding contributions to mineral weathering, soil development, critical zone exploration, soil polygenesis, climate change, and biochemical cycling in soils.

Jean-Pierre Fouque, professor of statistics and applied probability and director of the Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering.

David Marshall, Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA). The NHA is an advocacy coalition dedicated to the advancement of humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs.

David Siegel, professor of geography, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Siegel was cited for distinguished contributions to ocean optics, implications of mixing and stirring in the ocean, ocean bio-optics, ocean-color remote sensing, and spatial interactions in population dynamics.

John Majewski, associate professor of history, has published “Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation” (The University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

Dimitrije Djordjevic, professor emeritus of history, died on March 5. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1970 and retired from the university in 1991. He is survived by his wife, Nan Djordjevic.