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COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Andrea Huebner ’91, Editor Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Alexandria Cooper, Editorial Intern Taylor Haggerty, Editorial Intern
UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga President Alexandra Sasha Meshkov ’79, M.A.’83, Palm Desert Vice-President Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo Secretary-Treasurer Jodi L. Anderson ’94, London, England Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles Keith C. Bishop III ’69, Sacramento Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo Philip J. Bugay ’81, Santa Barbara Jeffrey Flory ’91, Huntington Beach David C. Forman ’66, Chula Vista Preston Hensley ’67, M.A.’69, North Stonington, Connecticut Thomas J. Jevens ’87, San Jose Robert Jupille ’89, Los Angeles John Keever ’67, Camarillo Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto Jack Krouskop ’71, San Mateo Steve Mendell ’63, San Diego Jennifer Pharaoh ’82, Washington, D.C. Lisa Przekop ’85, M.A.’89, Goleta Wendy Purcell ’84, Manhattan Beach Kim Shizas, ’77, Santa Barbara Markell Steele ’93, Long Beach Catherine Tonne ’81, Livermore Linda Ulrich ’83, Vienna, Virginia Michael Williams ’86, Santa Barbara Ex Officio Charlie Arreola President, Associated Students Gary Greinke Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Reginald Archer Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, Ph.D. Faculty Representative Fredric E. Steck ’67 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees
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UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Fall 2009 Vol. 40, No. 2
FEATURES
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Academic Programs Make the Best of Budget Crunch By Rob Kuznia
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An Education in the Present and the Past By Kathleen Foley
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Around Storke Tower: News & Notes From the Campus
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RESEARCH Roundup: DigitalOcean Program Immerses Youth in Ecosystems of the Sea
SPORTS Roundup: Multiple Gaucho Teams Make It to NCAA
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Milestones: ’50s to the Present
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The School of Education Celebrates 100 Years Archaeologist Disputes Beliefs About Maya Civilization Collapse Alumni Authors: From Pilots to Politics
COVER: Tina McEnroe M.A. ’89 refurbished an old-fashioned, one-room wooden schoolhouse
and shares its history with today’s elementary school students. Credit: Trevor Povah THIS PAGE: Elementary school students dressed in period costume walk through the grounds of Pleasant Valley School. Credit: George Yatchisin CLARIFICATION: Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao received his master of science degree and doctorate in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1983. In addition, Chiao worked in Chemical Engineering Professor Robert Rinker’s lab as a research assistant. Coastlines regrets these errors.
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Even while facing tremendous budget challenges, UC Santa Barbara faculty and staff are stretching to maintain services and standards for students. “Something of a miracle is happening at UCSB,” Dr. Mary Nisbet, the acting dean of undergraduate education in the College of Letters and Science, told Coastlines. “In spite of the fact that we’ve got this big budget crunch, everybody has made a huge effort to accommodate these students.” The 10-campus system this year has been forced to address a gaping $637 million budget hole by slashing courses, imposing furloughs, and hiking student fees by a staggering 32 percent. UC Santa Barbara students, like students at all UC schools, are facing a fee hike of $2,514, to $10,300 a year. And UC Santa Barbara staff and faculty, like all UC staff and faculty, must take off between 11 and 26 days of unpaid leave — resulting in a 4 to 10 percent pay cut — with the highest-paid employees taking larger pay cuts. Staff and faculty also must function with fewer co-workers, due to layoffs and unfilled vacancies. During the 2008-09 school year, UC Santa Barbara reduced its workforce by 235 full-time equivalents, including layoffs, eliminating unfilled positions, and
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reducing time. Chancellor Henry Yang told the UC Regents in July that he anticipates workforce reductions for 2009-10 to be far greater than the 235 full-time equivalents the previous year. For instance, the staff for Nisbet’s department — which advises UC Santa Barbara’s 18,000 liberal-arts students — has been winnowed in one year to 22 from 29. (The cuts were the result of attrition, not layoffs, she said.) In October, 48 employees took part in the Voluntary Separation Option, which promoted salary savings by encouraging employees to end their employment and receive severance pay.
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CAMPUS CHALLENGES The budget crunch at UC Santa Barbara is exacerbated by the over-enrollment of roughly 1,400 students for whom it receives no state money. With the state’s annual per-student rate at around $9,500, that’s $13.3 million the campus isn’t getting. All told, the shortfall at UC Santa Barbara amounts to a whopping $45 million. And yet, the staff and faculty in Santa Barbara are finding ways to make it work. The individual maneuvers are countless, but in short, professors and instructors are finding ways to serve more students with fewer lectures. While UC Santa Barbara’s main lecture offerings have dwindled in one year by 50 to about 840, the size of the classes has grown. “Rather than a class of 300, you might have a class of 500,” Nisbet said. For professors and lecturers, this also means grading more papers and exams. UC Santa Barbara’s undergraduate enrollment this fall — 19,796 — surpassed last fall by 900 students, and the previous year by about 1,400 students. Next year, out of necessity, the growth trend is expected to reverse. “We’re looking to reduce enrollment by many hundreds of students by fall of 2010,” Christine Van Gieson, UC Santa Barbara’s director of admissions, told Coastlines. In the near future, the domino effect of the budget collapse is expected to bring about permanent changes in course offerings. For instance, beginning in the winter quarter of 2010, students who fail a course twice will not be permitted to take it a third time, barring extenuating circumstances, Nisbet said. Nisbet said the new rule would help free up hundreds of spaces in courses with waiting lists. It also will better enable students to find the path that is right for them, rather than taking the same class over and over again. “They can waste a year and a half to two years doing this,” she said. “(The new rule) will encourage students to find a major they are suited to faster, so they can therefore graduate successfully.” Other sacrifices are specific to UC Santa Barbara. For instance, in October, UC Santa Barbara officials announced that the university would be closing its off-campus studies program in Ventura, which at the time enrolled some 65
UC SYSTEMWIDE NUMBERS
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
students. The 25-year-old program was especially attractive to working parents who preferred not to commute to Santa Barbara to continue their studies. UC Santa Barbara officials are working with the students to help them finish their degrees while supporters are looking at ways to keep some form of the program going. Additional examples of budget cuts at UC Santa Barbara include: • Campus closures of all offices for the last two weeks of 2009 and mandatory closures throughout the rest of the school year. • $200,000 reduction in Alumni Affairs’ budget this fiscal year. • Reduced social/cultural programming, reduced hours of service, and reduced student staff hires in the Division of Student Affairs, which includes more than 25 key student service departments such as the Campus Learning Assistance Services, Counseling Services, and Career Services.
DEFUNDING TREND Across the UC system, the financial malaise is the continuation of a long trend. Over the past two decades, the state’s
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Source: University of California 2010-11 Budget for Current Operations
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financial support of the UC system has fallen by half, to about 13 percent of the UC budget. In the past decade, student fees have doubled. David Marshall, executive dean of the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science and an English professor, does not mince words about the seriousness of the situation. “The future of the University of California as a great public research university is at stake,” he said. “With an unprecedented 20 percent reduction in our budget, in an unprecedentedly short period of time, we are struggling to maintain accessibility and excellence.” Marshall called on alumni to serve as ambassadors of the university. “There are thousands of alumni in the California, and thousands more parents and families of alumni, who know first-hand the value of the education that they received,” he said. “Help us make the case that higher education should be a priority for California.”
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?
David Marshall, Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Of the many possible solutions to the UC budget woes being bandied about in the media, at least one causes Nisbet to cringe: privatization of the UC system. “I think it would be a tragedy,” she said, adding that her native Scotland is still paying a price for closing the doors on capable students in that the country now imports a good deal of its professional talent. “I hope, in five or 10 years time, we in California don’t look back and say, ‘My gosh, what did we do to ourselves.’ … It just breaks my heart when I see able students not able to get in.” To avoid that fate, Nisbet said she and many others at UC Santa Barbara are working in overdrive. “People have responded magnificently, but that doesn’t mean this was easy,” she said. “Resources are very tight and people are working at the margin. I really do think people are under a lot of stress.” In any event, Nisbet said, all responses will be made with an eye toward making the best of a bad situation — and keeping undergraduate students as happy as possible, given the circumstances. “That’s part of the UCSB spirit — we rely on our undergraduates, we enjoy our undergraduates,” she said. “It’s a large part of our culture.”
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BacktoBasics Education Takes a Trip to the 1890s in a One-Room Schoolhouse With Alumna Tina McEnroe By Kathleen Foley Photos by Trevor Povah, Kathleen Foley, and George Yatchisin
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As a young woman growing up in a Salinas Valley agricultural family, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education graduate Tina McEnroe M.A. ’89 considered two career optionsteacher or f attendant.
light “Thank God I chose teaching,” she says with a hearty laugh. The choice turned out to be transformative. There is little in her life now that doesn’t involve education. Four days a week, she’s a reading specialist at Vista de Las Cruces School in Gaviota, having earned her multiple subject and reading specialist credentials, as well as a master’s degree in education, from UC Santa Barbara in 1989. She continued her association with UC Santa Barbara by becoming a member of the Dean’s Council at the university’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Even as McEnroe racked up educational accolades and honors, she never lost sight of a long-held dream — to own and run an old-fashioned, one-room wooden schoolhouse. Give her a goal, a challenge, a project, and she gets moving. Her passionate enthusiasm may seem relentless to some. But she did it. Earlier this year, three years of painstaking work gave way to the grand re-opening of the Pleasant Valley School. The 1869 schoolhouse was only recently rotting away near a Highway 101 off ramp in Santa Maria. Now, it glows with bright-white paint on a gently rolling hillside at the historic 1,007-acre Rancho La Purisima that McEnroe and her husband of 15 years, Paul, call home. It was named a Santa Barbara County Building of Historical Merit. True to McEnroe’s dream, Pleasant Valley is now once again a place for students to learn “reading, writing and arithmetic.” “It is my dream that the pulse of this 1869 schoolhouse continue to live and thrive for many more years to come as children, student teachers from UCSB and Cal Poly, professors, community members one and all, visit, learn and are inspired by an era gone by,” she said at the ceremonial reopening. To ensure that occurs, McEnroe, who earned her bachelor’s of science degree in education from USC, has created a “Living History Day” curriculum for elementary school students. Her goal is to allow today’s students, so enthralled by technology and a fast-paced world, to travel back in time to the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Now, on many Fridays, she sheds her stylish modern garb for authentic clothing of more than 100 years ago. Schoolchildren from throughout the area arrive by bus, change into period costume, and spend four hours living and learning in the ways of their ancestors. A 37-star flag snaps in the breeze on a pole next to the front door. Girls curtsey to the teacher and boys shake her hand when they enter the room. They bring lunches in metal pails, and use chalk to scratch out math and spelling words on slates. “I’m very much a traditionalist,” she says, grinning broadly. “It’s extremely important to rouse minds to life and to learning. We all yearn to go back to a simpler time. This is a complex, hectic world we live in. To be taken back in time, it’s easier, simpler. It’s amazing; when children don period costumes, they become a part of that living history.” In the classroom, the children respect one another and exhibit manners that might be lacking in a more-modern classroom. “There’s a sense of responsibility,” she explains. “It’s transformational. It’s magic, and these children accept that.” Pleasant Valley was meant to be, she asserts. “One of the reasons I was put on Earth was to make that difference,” she says earnestly. It is not only the schoolchildren visiting Pleasant Valley whom the McEnroes hope to inspire. The couple recently pledged funds to establish the Tina Hansen McEnroe and Paul V. McEnroe Reading Clinic at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. The cause is close to her heart — she worked at the university’s reading clinic before it was shuttered due to budget cuts in the early 1990s. The financial gift will allow the university the seed funding to plan, organize and launch the new clinic in 2010.
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What our Gaucho Getaways travelers are saying…
“We thoroughly enjoyed our Blue Voyage to Turkey” - Fran Adams, Gaucho Getaways guest “Get a chance to see more during this trip (Essential Europe) than you would doing Europe any other way...it’s the best way to go...this trip makes the traveling process very easy and enjoyable!” --Dariann Lucarelli, Gaucho Getaways guest
Essential Europe for the Class of 2010 June 26-July 22, 2010 (London-Athens) June 26-July 17, 2010 (London-Rome)
Designed for UCSB seniors, this exclusive UCSB adventure provides the opportunity to visit Europe’s “must-see” destinations before settling down into graduate school or a job. It is also a great balance of planned activities and time for independent exploration. This departure traverses England, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Vatican City, Italy, and Greece (ends in Italy for the 22-day option). $3,657 London-Rome; $4,452 London-Athens per per person double occupancy. International group air additional (approx. $1,400-$1,600 taxes inclusive).
April 10-18, 2010 Begin in Amsterdam where you’ll board your ship. See the sights in Arnhem, Dordrecht, Middelburg, Rotterdam, as well as Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium. Travel to fascinating Bruges, the windmills at Kinderdijk, and learn about Holland’s complex flood controls at the Delta Works. Enjoy the spectacular Keukenhof Gardens, as well as the fishing village of Volendam and Edam. Return to Amsterdam to enjoy a canal cruise and a final night on your ship. Cruise from $2,260 per person based on double o c c u p a n c y. Includes port taxes and ship gratuity. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
The Blue Voyage: Turkey & The Turquoise Coast May 1-15, 2010 Cappadoicia & Ankara Extension Visit remote villages, explore fascinating archeological sites, and cruise the magnificent Turquoise Coast in a privately chartered yacht. Our odyssey begins in Istanbul with its m a n y treasures.Travel south to explore the World War I battlefield of Gallipoli, the ruins of ancient Troy and Pergamum, and Ephesus, the world’s best-preserved classical city. In Marmaris, we’ll board our traditional private gulets, equipped with individual cabins and baths, to cruise the magnificent Turkish coastline. Conclude with two nights in the seaside resort of Antalya. $3,995 air and land inclusive from LAX; $3,495 from JFK. $2,995 land-only pricing per person based on double occupancy.
The Great Journey July 2-10, 2010 Enjoy this 11-day journey of discovery along the Rhine and into the Swiss Alps through a unique combination of river and rail travel. Cruise from Amsterdam to Basel aboard a ship in the deluxe M.S. Amadeus fleet. The five- night cruise includes ports of call at Cologne, Koblenz, Rudesheim, Mannheim, and Strasbourg before disembarking in Basel. From Basel, travel overland through western Switzerland to the resorts of Zermatt and Lucerne. On three rail journeys, ride a cog railway up Mount Pilatus for vistas of Lake Lucerne; cross the mountainous backbone of Switzerland aboard the celebrated Glacier Express; and view the Matterhorn from the Gornergrat Bahn. From $3,195 per person based on double occupancy, land only. International air additional and can be arranged through the tour operator.
Journey of Peter the Great: Russia & the Volga River Cruise July 5 -17, 2010 Explore Russia and the Volga waterways lined with medieval villages and w o o d e n dachas as well as Moscow, and St. Petersburg. In Star City, home to Russia’s space program, enjoy a talk with a cosmonaut and an exclusive tour at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Sail to Uglich, Yaroslavl, Goritsy, and Kizhi Island. Trace the steps of Peter the Great as you experience St. Petersburg. Immerse yourself in Russian history at the Kremlin’s Armory Museum, Red Square, and iconic St. Basil’s Cathedral. From $3,295 per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
request brochures 14ToCoastlines | Fall 2009 for these trips or to be placed on the mailing list for these and future trips, such as Portugal and Italy or other destinations, call the UCSB Alumni Association at (805) 893-4611 or email gaucho.getaways@ia.ucsb.edu.
Flavors of Burgundy and Provence September 4-15, 2010
See France at its scenic best on this charming getaway. Begin in vibrant Paris and Nice, while a deluxe 7-night cruise along the Saône and Rhône Rivers takes you into the heart of this beautiful country. Enjoy orientation walks in Tournon and Beaune, and see the sights with Local Guides in Avignon, Arles, and Lyon, France’s gastronomic capital. Opportunities abound on this grand vacation to learn about and taste the sumptuous wines and local cuisine.
Canadian Maritimes During Fall Foliage September 4-13, 2010 Limited to 28 passengers, experience the maritime magic of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Delight in wild and rugged coastal scenery, spectacular bays, lush river valleys, scenic drives, and beautiful lighthouses, the sentinels of the sea. Stroll along the history-lined streets of charming fishing villages, bustling ports, and cosmopolitan cities. Immerse yourself in the unique cultures that thrive in the Canadian Maritimes: the First Nation people, French, Acadians, Highland Scotsmen and Irishmen. From $3,295 per person land only based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
From $3,750 per person land/cruise only based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and available through tour operator.
Limited to 24 guests, stay in distinguished lodgings and experience the history of Portugal and Spain. Begin in Lisbon, tour the highlights including the National Pa l a c e o f Queluz. T r a v e l through A l e n t e j o, a region of olive groves, vineyards, and wheat fields, to one of Portugal’s finest pousadas set in a former 15th-century convent. In Spain, see the ruinfilled city of Merida, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cordoba, and Seville with its Moorish architecture. Visit Toledo, a tour highlight. In Madrid, tour the majestic Palacio Royal, the Plaza Mayor, and the world-famous Prado. $4,695 air and land per person based on double occupancy, inclusive from LAX. $3,895 land only. Other gateways available.
Village Life in the Italian Lake District September 25-October 3, 2010
Toscana - Cortona, La Bella Campagna September 29-October 7, 2010
Enjoy Italy’s famous Lake District, whose romance and beauty has inspired Western Civilization’s greatest creative minds from Byron and Shelley to Ernest Hemingway. Sojourn to where splendid alpine peaks tower over pristine lakes surrounded by picturesque villages, tropical orchards, and grand Renaissance palaces. Stroll through the immaculate gardens of Isola Bella and learn the secrets of authentic Italian cuisine at a handson cooking class. Enjoy an early opening tour at the legendary V i l l a Balbianello, private cruises on Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, and an opportunity to meet local residents during our Village Forum.
Immerse yourself in the culture of the Tuscan village of Cortona for eight wonderful d a y s. T h e sunny, verdant slopes of the countryside are the picturesque backdrop for an adventure that will take you through thousands of years in history. Learn about the Etruscan history and Renaissance art as you explore the towns of Siena, Perugia, and Assisi. Enjoy a full day in Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance. Come and enjoy your time under the Tuscan sun in search of fine art and history, to explore the extraordinary countryside and to savor the simple yet wonderful cuisine and wine.
From $2,995 land-only per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
Paradores & Posadas Historic Lodgings in Spain & Portugal September 23-October 7, 2010 Barcelona Post Trip Optional Extension
From $2,295 land-only per person based on double occupancy. Roundtrip international air additional and can be booked through tour operator.
Classic Greek Isles October 11-26, 2010 Limited to 24 guests, explore Athens, then travel to central Greece for a stop in Delphi, the most beautiful and celebrated ancient site of all. Spend seven nights aboard the Harmony V, an intimate yacht, gliding through the azure waters of the Aegean to classic white-washed islands. Call on the island of Delos where we take a guided walking tour of the superb ruins. Enjoy leisure time on Santorini, the southernmost of the Cycladic islands. Experience the charm of Heraklion, the capital of Crete, and Rethymnon, the historic Venetian harbor town, on the largest island in the Mediterranean. Disembark in Piraeus and return to Athens. $4,995 air and land/cruise inclusive per person based on double occupancy from LAX. $4,095 land/cruise only. Other gateways available upon request. www.ucsbalum.com 15
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Two Series to Focus on 1969 Oil Spill
Oil floats throughout the Santa Barbara Harbor on Feb. 14, 1969. Image courtesy of the UCSB Map & Image Library
“Forty Years After the Big Spill,” presented by the College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America endowment, commemorates the Jan. 28, 1969, oil spill off the Santa Barbara coast. The “spill heard ’round the world” galvanized the environmental movement, and led to landmark legislation such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the first Earth Day in April 1970. The series also marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the UCSB Environmental Studies Program. For specific dates and more information, see http://www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/critical-issues-inamerica-grant “Oil + Water,” a companion series organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, will examine the cultural and environmental importance of oil and water to the history and culture of California and the world. For specific dates and more information, see http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water.html.
UCSB to Close Off-Campus Studies Center in Ventura UC Santa Barbara has announced plans to close its Ventura Center for OffCampus Studies. The decision was made for financial reasons because UC Santa Barbara is faced with cutting $45 million from its budget this year as a result of reductions in state support for the UC system. The program in Ventura currently enrolls 65 students. UC Santa Barbara officials say they will be assisting those interested in completing their degree program. Since the Ventura Center opened 25 years ago, approximately 4,000 students have taken classes there.
Teach-In Explores Solutions to UC Budget Crisis With UC’s budget crisis generating fee increases, layoffs, furloughs, and frustration, a group of faculty and staff members and students at UC Santa Barbara organized a daylong teach-in to debate the issues and to provide a public forum for discussion on Oct. 14. “Defending the University: A ‘Teach-In’ on the Current Crisis” included faculty, lecturer, and student organization speakers.
Fulbright Scholars From Canada, Europe, and the Middle East to Study on Campus The Fulbright Scholar Program has awarded grants to seven researchers from Korea, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East to study at UC Santa Barbara during the 2009-10 academic year. The scholars will be affiliated with a range of UC Santa Barbara academic departments, including Mathematics, Political Science, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Religious Studies, Linguistics, and Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology.
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Campus Unveils Education, Social Sciences and Media Studies Complex
Clockwise from top left: The Pollock Theater, part of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media. A bell hangs in the northeast tower of the new Education Building, which mirrors the new Social Sciences & Media Studies Building. Photos: Rod Rolle
UCSB Reads Goes Beyond Borders to Look at the Human Experience The UCSB Reads 2010 book is “Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother” by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Sonia Nazario. The novel offers a glimpse of life beyond the political and cultural border between the United States and its southern neighbors. Nazario will give a free lecture at 8 p.m. Feb. 15, 2010, in UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall.
Gaines named Dean of Bren School Steven Gaines, director of the Marine Science Institute, has been appointed dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. Gaines has served as a faculty member in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology since 1994. From 2002 to 2005, he served as acting vice chancellor for research, and in 2007 he was named acting dean of the Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences, a post he held until October 2008.
The newest addition to UC Santa Barbara is a three-building complex that adds high-tech classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, and much more to the west side of the campus. The long-planned complex includes a building that houses various departments of the College of Letters and Science, and is known as the Social Sciences & Media Studies Building. Next door is the Education Building, home of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, the Koegel Autism Center, and the Hosford Counseling Clinic. The third structure is the Pollock Theater, part of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media. The project architects used features of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse as inspiration for the complex.
Energy and Economics Are Focus of New UC Partnership The University of California Center for Energy and Environmental Economics will draw on the strengths of two world-class research centers: the UC Energy Institute and UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. UCE3 will function as a research hub in energy and environmental economics. The research agenda will encompass four general areas: Energy and Climate Policy, Energy Efficiency, MarketBased Environmental Regulations, and Behavioral Economics and the Environment. UCE3 will also host intensive collaborative research events in the pursuit of more comprehensive approaches to energy and environmental issues. Severin Borenstein, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and director of the UC Energy Institute, and Charles Kolstad, professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, will serve as co-directors of the new center.
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Library Awarded Grant to Continue Online Sound Recordings Encyclopedia The University Library at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a second National Endowment for the Humanities grant to further develop an online encyclopedia of all the recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company (which later became RCA Victor) between 1900-1950. The discography of Victor records is making the history of recorded sound in the United States broadly accessible to scholars and the public for the first time. Visit: http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/ Left: Enrico Caruso’s 1904 recording of the aria “Recondita Armonia” from Puccini’s opera Tosca. Caruso’s recordings remain in print to this day, more than 100 years after they were made. Right: Monologue, “Venus Salon,” recorded by film and stage actor Paco Gavilanes from a series of 1905 Mexican recording sessions.
UC’s Project You Can Launched to Increase Student Support Seeking to help keep the University of California accessible and affordable for California students, UC President Mark G. Yudof launched an ambitious fundraising effort that aims to raise $1 billion for student support over the next four years. Through the fundraising effort, Project You Can, all 10 UC campuses have committed to raise $1 billion in the aggregate over the next four years — doubling the amount of private support the system has raised for scholarships, fellowships and other gift aid in the previous five years. http://youcan. universityofcalifornia.edu/
Entrepreneur Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Gus Gurley, ’78, M.A. ’83, co-founder of Santa Barbara-based Digital Instruments, has endowed a chair at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. The Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology honors the entrepreneur’s mother. The first holder of the endowed chair is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
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Private Giving to UC Santa Barbara
40.6 million
amount of gifts and pledges in 2008-09
17,525
number of gifts received in 2008-09
1,100
more gifts received during 2008-09 than previous year
40.8 million
less received in 2008-09 than previous year
Dropouts Cost State $1 billion Each Year in Juvenile Crime Dropouts cost California $1.1 billion annually in juvenile crime costs alone, according to a study released today from the UC Santa Barbara’s California Dropout Research Project. The study, “High School Dropouts and the Economic Losses from Juvenile Crime in California,” is the first to show the immediate public safety and economic impact of California’s high dropout rates. http://www.cdrp.ucsb. edu/ Additional findings from the study include: • High school dropouts are twice as likely to commit crimes as high school graduates. • Dropouts from a single cohort of California 12-year-olds will generate $1.1 billion in economic losses from juvenile crime and $10.5 billion in economic losses from adult crime over their lifetimes. • Cutting the dropout rate in half would reduce the number of juvenile crimes in California by 30,000 and save the state $550 million per year.
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Youth Dive into Sustainability with DigitalOcean Program The DigitalOcean project at UC Santa Barbara went on the road in November — going all the way to San Francisco’s Pier 39 — for a special event titled “DigitalOcean: Connecting for Ocean Sustainability.” Sponsored by Oracle, the program was designed to bring attention to DigitalOcean, a virtual commons being developed by the Environmental Media Initiative to create global communities using new media to advance ocean sustainability and protect ocean ecosystems. The event focused on showing how young people can get involved in ocean conservation efforts. The program included the film “Students Saving the Ocean,” a documentary of students in the Bay Area who are finding ways to improve the health of our seas based on the book, “50 Ways to Save the Ocean.” http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Programs/EMI/ Research/DO_splash.html
Large-Scale Camera Network Part of New Study at UCSB Thanks to a federal grant, a comprehensive camera network on the UC Santa Barbara campus will help a team of researchers, led by Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering B.S. Manjunath, study the patterns of movement within buildings and on bicycle paths. The array of cameras will include ethernet-linked cameras inside Harold Frank Hall; batterypowered cameras mounted above campus bicycle paths, Kirby Crossing, and Steck Circle near the east entrance to campus; and solar-powered cameras at Coal Oil Point Reserve. The video network will not be used for surveillance.
UCSB Researchers Develop Drug Delivery System Using Nanoparticles and Lasers
UCSB Joins with Leading Asian Institute to Develop Green Electronics UC Santa Barbara and the Institute of Microelectronics of Singapore have entered into a "green electronics" research collaboration agreement focused on developing ultra-efficient nanoscale transistors and exploring their circuit-level functionality. The collaboration will be led by Kaustav Banerjee, professor of electrical and computer engineering and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara, and by Navab Singh at IME.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS NANO, a journal of the American Chemical Society. Nanoparticles are taken up by cells and then release the drug in specific cells with use of the laser. The technique can be expanded to deliver numerous drug molecules against diverse biological targets.
Far Left: Graduate student Thomas Kuo finishes the installation of a camera outside Harold Frank Hall. Left: Standing under a camera installed outside Harold Frank Hall are, from left, Zefeng Ni, Carter De Leo, B.S. Manjunath, and Thomas Kuo. Manjunath is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, while Ni, De Leo, and Kuo are graduate students. Photos: George Foulsham UCSB Office of Public Affairs
Inset: Gary Braun uses cancer cell cultures and a pulsed laser to study remote control gene silencing by specialized nanoparticles. The normally invisible laser is replaced by a visible one for the photo. Photocomposite: Rod Rolle Background: The near-infrared laser pathway into the cell culture plate, traced by visible laser for photo.
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Women’s Cross Country
Women Capture Big West Cross Country Championship For the fifth time in seven years, the Gaucho women’s cross country squad captured the Big West team championship. The Gauchos scored 51 points to capture the crown, ahead of second-place UC Davis (61 points) and third-place Cal Poly (74 points). The top runner for UC Santa Barbara was Crystal Reed, who was competing in her first Big West Championship meet. Reed’s time over the 6k course was 20:43.5, which was good for fourth place and AllConference honors.
Men’s Soccer
Gauchos’ NCAA Tournament Run Ends in Westwood The NCAA Third Round game between UC Santa Barbara (17-5-2) and UCLA (12-3-4) marked the first postseason rematch between the Gauchos and Bruins since UC Santa Barbara defeated UCLA in the 2006 NCAA College Cup. The final score of that game was 2-1 and UCLA used that same score to defeat the Gauchos at the Bruins’ Marshall Field at Drake Stadium. UC Santa Barbara ended the season with a 17-5-2 overall record, which marks the Gauchos’ best record since the 2006 National Championship season, when they went 17-7-1. UC Santa Barbara also tied the program record for the second most wins in a season. The Gauchos also ended the year with a school and Big West record 16 shutouts and a program-record 10 players were named to All-Big West teams. David Walker, Men’s Soccer - First Team All Big West. Photo: Francis Lipinski
Men’s Swimming
Women’s Volleyball
Former Gaucho Jason Lezak Featured in Showtime Documentary
UCSB Selected to Play in NCAA Tournament for 27th Time
Jason Lezak’s record-breaking relay finish is highlighted in the documentary, “Bud Greenspan Presents: Beijing 2008 — America’s Olympic Glory.” The two-hour film features the stories of 6 American Olympians including swim team captain Jason Lezak whose thrilling world best final leg (46.06) in the 4 x 100 Freestyle relay earned the United States an upset victory over France. Lezak, who graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1999 and was a two-time Big West Swimmer of the Year, is a three-time Olympian and has won three gold and two bronze medals.
The UC Santa Barbara women’s volleyball team was selected to play in the 2009 NCAA Tournament after a 22-7 overall season, putting the Gauchos in the tournament for the 27th time in the program’s history and the first time since the 2006 season. UC Santa Barbara, which had made 26 consecutive tournaments, missed out the past two seasons. “With how many teams were left out, we feel honored to be part of this tournament,” said head coach Kathy Gregory, the co-Big West Coach of the Year. UC Santa Barbara was one of only two Big West teams selected for the tournament.
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Rebecca Saraceno, Women’s Volleyball - Big West Player of the Year, First Team All-Big West. Photo: Matt Brown
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Women’s Soccer
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UCSB Beats Cal Poly in PK Shootout, Advances to Second Straight NCAA Tournament
Jacqui Simon, Women’s Soccer First Team All-Big West. Photo: Tony Mastres
Women’s Swimming
For the second year in a row, the UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team has won the Big West Tournament and will advance to the NCAA Tournament. The Gauchos defeated Cal Poly in a penalty kick shootout, 5-4, after the teams battled to a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime. The penalty kick win sends UC Santa Barbara to the NCAA Tournament for the 10th time. This marks the second year in a row that the Gauchos have knocked out Cal Poly on penalty kicks.
Men’s Tennis
Gauchos Sweep Westmont at UCSB Classic The UC Santa Barbara men’s tennis team dominated the UCSB Classic as they hosted the Westmont Warriors and Loyola Marymount Lions at the Recreation Center Courts to close out their fall season. UC Santa Barbara defeated Westmont in every match on the first day of the UCSB Classic. Although Loyola Marymount’s Otto Sauer and Borja Malet won the Flight A and Flight E Singles, the Gauchos took the other six titles.
Gauchos Wrap Up U.S. Open with Silver Medal Finishes UC Santa Barbara alum Katy Freeman continued her impressive work at the U.S. Open Swimming Championships with a personal-best time in the 100-meter breaststroke. Freeman, a former UCSB swimmer now competing for Santa Barbara Aquatics, placed second in the race with a finish of 1 minute, 5.35 seconds. She now ranks third in the world in the 100-meter breaststroke. Jessica Hardy won the race in a world-record time of 1:04.45, her second world record in two days. She set the world record in the 50 breaststroke with a split of 29.95 seconds when she time-trialed the 100 breaststroke.
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Don't miss the Golden Gaucho Reunion April 23-25, 2010 Robert Vogelsang, ’53, received the Outstanding Retired Faculty Award of Portland State University for Service to the Profession, to the University and to the Retirement Association. Vogelsang is a professor emeritus in Communication at Portland State University.
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Don't miss the Golden Gaucho Reunion April 23-25, 2010 Sherin L. (Pomeroy) Shumavon, ’64, graduated from the analyst-training program at the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts in January 2009. She maintains a private practice as a Jungian analyst in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Genevieve (Genny) Bockus Anderson, ’68, retired from Santa Barbara City College after 37 years teaching. While at SBCC, she developed the first fully online class at the campus with her department chair.
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UC Santa Barbara’s Off Campus Studies (OCS) Program in Ventura is looking for all alumni who have received their degrees through
the program — a program that has been in operation since 1972. All alumni of the OCS program are asked to contact Acting Dean Michael T. Brown at michael.brown@els.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-2944.
Joy McCaslin, ’73, was named interim president of Pierce College by the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees following the retirement of former president Robert Garber. McCaslin, who has worked at Pierce for 21 years and was serving as the vice president of student services, was unanimously selected to lead the college until a successor is found. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, McCaslin earned a master’s degree in Special Education from UC Riverside and worked at Antelope Valley and Glendale colleges. Elizabeth Lishner, ’75, was recently appointed administrative law judge for the Los Angeles Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review.
Dr. Wayne N. Burton, ’69, is the first recipient of the Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award, recognizing his long career as a proponent of workplace health and wellness. The award was presented by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the National Business Group on Health. He recently retired as corporate medical director for JPMorgan Chase bank.
Robert K. Cowen, ’76, was named associate research dean at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Virginia Key. Cowen, a Maytag professor of Ichthyology and chairman of the Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, has written or coauthored more than 100 publications, served on the U.S. Ocean Research and Resource Advisory Panel and held other leadership positions at UM. He will now be responsible for organizing faculty teams to pursue research opportunities at the Rosenstiel School.
Brent Thompson, ’69, serves on the Ashland, Ore., Transportation Commission, the Medford Urban Growth Boundary Advisory Committee, and the Ashland Little League Board. He is also president of the Friends of Jackson County.
Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Tom Franklin, ’77, retired after more than 30 years of service. Franklin became a firefighter and engineer shortly after graduating from UC Santa Barbara. He was a captain for 18 years, a battalion chief for a year and division chief for two years, before becoming the county’s deputy chief for three years. He was named interim fire chief when former Chief John Scherrie retired last year.
1970s Glenn Brown, ’73, has been appinted to the Board of Governors of the California Insurance Guarantee Association. Brown is CEO of Fu-Gen, Inc. Research and Investigation. He also serves as inspector general for California School Districts. Marc Grossman, ’73, was recently appointed chairman of the National Board of the World Affairs Councils of America.
Darlene Anastas, ’78, has been teaching Theater Design, Acting, and Theatrical Fencing in Milton, Mass. She just designed lighting for a set featured in the Cameron Diaz film “The Box.” Catherine Marshall, Ph.D. ’79, a professor at the University of North Carolina, has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration.
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MAT alumnus MarkDavid Hosale, ’93, Ph.D. ’08, joins the faculty of Architecture at the
Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands. In addition to teaching courses in new media, Hosale manages a research facility know as Protospace, an immersive environment for the development of virtual, nonstandard, and interactive architecture. A team of researchers that includes Hosale created the “Interactive HyperWall” at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. As a prototype for an emotive wall, the Interactive HyperWall is an important step towards the development of an emotive architecture that is no longer a static backdrop for its users but a key component in a dynamic customizable environment. An emotive wall is a wall that responds to the user, a wall that has a character, a wall that can move because it wants to. The emotive Interactive HyperWall is composed of seven separate wall pieces that display real time behavior by swinging its body back and forth, displaying patterns of light on its skin, and projecting localized sound.
1980s John "Hans" I. Gilderbloom, ’75, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’83, a professor at the University of Louisville, was honored as one of the world's top urban thinkers in an international poll by Planetizen, the leading website on urban planning and policy.The poll received thousands of votes from around the world. Gilderbloom was 66th in the poll and in the top 50 among living thinkers. Reina Markheim, ’83, was rewarded with the Linda Brown Excellence in Education Fellowship for the 2009-10 school year. A 24-year employee for the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, Markheim received her bachelor’s degree in Developmental Psychology and her teaching credential from UC Santa Barbara. Wayne Tikkanen, M.A. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, received an Outstanding Professor Award from Cal State Los Angeles, where he is a professor 24 Coastlines 24 Coastlines | | Fall Fall2009 2009
of Chemistry. Tikkanen has secured $1.5 million in grants, which has supported his research in selective catalytic carbon-carbon bond formation, an area that has implications in the preparation of pharmaceuticals and other products. Fred Viehe, M.A. ’75, Ph.D. ’83, has been promoted to the rank of professor at Youngstown State University, and appointed an associate editor of the International Journal of the Humanities. He also published two articles, "Atavistic Culture: The Bete Noire of Social Change," in The Forum on Public Policy: Journal of the Oxford Round Table, and "The Teddy Boys: Britain's First Countercultural Movement," in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and the Humanities. Ben Bahr, ’84, Ph.D. ’89, was appointed as the William C. Friday Chair and Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University of North Carolina - Pembroke. Dr. Bahr directs molecular, cellular, and behavioral experiments on pathogenic cascades that cause synaptic and cognitive dysfunction, and studies new protection strategies in models of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. His work has led to more than 120 publications. Bahr is also co-founder of Synaptic Dynamics, Inc., which is developing first-in-class drugs for Alzheimer's disease and other CNS disorders. Mindy Sheldon, ’84, will be using her 20-year’s experience as production accountant in the film and television industries to promote the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program. Newly relocated to Austin, Sheldon will work as an incentives compliance specialist in the Office of the Governor, Texas Film Commission. Michael Vinson, ’86, was recently appointed vice president of statistical sciences and analytics at Rentrak Corporation, a leader in multi-screen media measurement that serves the entertainment and advertising industries.After earning a master’s degree in physics from UC Santa Barbara, Vinson earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago, did post-doctoral work at Syracuse University, won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and do research in computational physics at Yarmouk University in
Bren researcher Paul Berkman, ’80, spearheaded the Antarctic Treaty’s 50th anniversary event this November. The treaty was a landmark agreement that set aside the frozen continent to be “used exclusively for peaceful purposes” and in the “interest of all mankind.” Fifty years later, the Antarctic Treaty Summit served as grounds for diplomats, scientists, legislators, historians, educators and others to convene and discuss the treaty’s science-policy achievements and how to protect those resources that lie beyond national jurisdictions.
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Hope and I are investing in the future of California!
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Harvey Schechter ’47 and his wife Hope have been strong advocates of UC Santa Barbara for many years. Harvey attended the Riviera campus and has been closely involved with the campus, including serving as a board member of the Alumni Association and also as a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.
A GIFT OF GRATITUDE
As Harvey tells it, “There was no tuition in those days, and the registration fee was only $17 per semester. In short, the people of California gave me a free four-year college education!” Harvey and Hope sought to create a lasting legacy to show their appreciation for the education he received. Through discussions with the Development Office, Harvey and Hope decided upon one of the most common forms of planned giving – a bequest in their wills. Their generosity will provide UC Santa Barbara with a gift equaling half the value of their estate upon their deaths. Upon receipt of their gift, the money will be used to help needy students enjoy and benefit from a UC Santa Barbara education that they might not otherwise have been able to afford.
Harvey Schechter, BA ’47, and Hope Schechter
Harvey explains the motivation for their gift this way: “Because that [UCSB] diploma served me so well since 1947, I vowed decades ago to pay back what I owe by doing for the young people of today and tomorrow what was done for me so long ago. If I lived to be 120, I would not be able to repay UC Santa Barbara and the people of California for what was done for me decades ago. Hope and I are investing in the future of California!”
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Jordan, and has published dozens of academic research papers in physics, biology and chemistry journals. Robert Curtiss, ’87, is now vice president of investments for Crowell Weedon & Co., the largest independent investment brokerage on the West Coast. Formerly a 12-year employee for Merrill Lynch, Curtiss is an active member of several charitable and civic organizations, including the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. Barry T. Ryan, ’87, was appointed as president/chief executive officer of West Coast University, where he will be responsible for all operations and development at the university. Ryan is a tenured professor in both history and law, and has served as the president of Argosy University, Southern California, and has held positions as a provost and vice president at universities on both coasts. He holds a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, a doctorate in European History from UC Santa Barbara, a master’s of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) in history from Westmont College. Additionally, Ryan served as the United States Supreme Court Judicial Fellow under former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Brian Nomi, ’89, returned to Camarillo this October after a year deployed with the United States Army in Joint Base Balad, Iraq. A political science graduate, Nomi is expected to take up his solo law practice upon his return.
1990s Radhakrishnan “Radha” Nagarajan, Ph.D. ’92, a senior director of optical component technology at Infinera, was named a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology in recognition of his pioneering work in photonic integrated circuit design. Nagarajan is one of the key architects in the development of Infinera’s large-scale photonic integrated circuits. He is also a fellow of the Optical Society of America and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Gregory Schell, ’92, screened his surfing documentary, “Chasing the
Lotus,” narrated by Jeff Bridges at the 2009 Bel Air Film Festival. “Chasing the Lotus” is a cinematic journey inspired by underground filmmakers Greg Weaver and Spyder Wills.
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The University of California Trust in London hosted the
2009 Mentor-A-Student program
in October. Fifty current and former UC students attended the event, with several UC Santa Barbara alumni and faculty providing advice to students on how UC has shaped their careers. At top, alumna Marilyn Donahue, ‘80, made concrete plans to mentor current student Tim Wall during his academic studies in London. David Brown, ‘07. Photos by Francis Ware
Eric J. Weibel, B.S. ’94, founded Alta Financial & Insurance Services, LLC, which is an insurance wholesaler. He is also working on forming a general insurance agency, which will develop, manage, and distribute property and casualty insurance products. Jumpstart co-founder and CEO Shawn Landres, M.A. ’95, has been named to the Forward newspaper’s annual list of the 50 most influential leaders in American Jewish life. Landres has written extensively on the flowering of new Jewish spiritual communities and their leaders. Kevin Carson, ’96, works as a lighting technician with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Britain. His son, Milo, was born in June 2009. Bill Watkins, Ph.D. ’98, joined the California Lutheran University staff as executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, director of master of science program in Economics, and associate professor of Economics. Watkins earned his master’s and doctorate in Economics from UC Santa Barbara and previously served as executive director of the UCSB Economic Forecast project as well as an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Courtney Miller, ’99, has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Metabolism and Aging and the Department of Neuroscience at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida.
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2000s After five years as an environmental insurance underwriter, Joy Brown, MESM ’00, is now working as the environmental compliance specialist for the city of Berkeley, where she resides with her husband, Sam Tabibnia, whom she married in February. Maria Lucia Castanheira, Ph.D. ’00, was promoted to associate professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is associate director of the Center for Literacy Education.
David Court, ’94, spent several years skiing and climbing in the Alps before pursuing a master’s degree at UC
Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. He has recently been taking groups on European ski vacations while still providing some insight on the effects of global climate change. His business, Alpine Exposure, is now part of 1% for the Planet and has raised thousands of dollars for environmental protection. www.alpine-exposure.com
After graduation, Corrine Kirkbride, ’00, joined the Peace Corps, where she was first sent to Macedonia, evacuated due to the civil war there, and then reassigned to the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Kirkbride earned both a master’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Teaching Mathematics at UC Davis. She recently accepted a full-time tenure track position at Solano Community College in Fairfield, Calif.
Becca Thomases, Ph.D. ’03, completed a post-doctoral position as an instructor at the New York University Courant Institute. She is now an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Davis.
Nicole Berg , ’01, earned a master’s in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2003. Until recently she was an options trader for Peak6. She has since started a nonprofit to give out scholarships to Chicago Public School kids who are economically disadvantaged: www.bettertomorrowfund.org. In the fall of 2008, she began law school, ultimately hoping to focus on human rights.
Andrea (Chadden) Berkley, MESM ’04, celebrated the arrival of her daughter, Elowah (“Ellie”) June Berkley, earlier this year. Berkley is the conservation coordinator for the Columbia Land Trust, where she performs stewardship and restoration projects on conserved lands. Her spouse, Chad Berkley, is a software engineer for UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The family lives in Portland, Ore.
Jennifer Copeland, ’01, and Dustin Steiner, ’01, were married Aug. 1, 2009, at the Old Mission Santa Barbara. The couple met during their freshman year at UC Santa Barbara and now live in San Diego, where Copeland works as a registered nurse at Scripps Hospital La Jolla and Steiner works in local politics for the county.
Kimberly (Spears) Hopkins, ’04, had a paper titled “Quadratic Reciprocity in a Finite Group” (joint with W. Duke) appear in the March 2005 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly. Hopkins was awarded the Donald D. Harrington Fellowship to study in the Ph.D. program at the University of Texas - Austin. She is now studying number theory.
Diane Siegal, ’01, a graduate of the single subject credential program in English at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education was honored as Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year. Jaron Farnham, ’02, was recently nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role for his work in “Still the River Runs.” This annual award is given to individuals who have achieved artistic excellence in Off-OffBroadway theater. Maia Averett, ’03, finished a Ph.D. in Algebraic Topology at UCSD under the direction of Professor Nitya Kitchloo in 2008. She now teaches at Mills College in Oakland.
MAT alumnus Garry Kling, M.A. ’04, is the multimedia technician at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Ariz. He is in charge of identifying, acquiring, and editing audio and video material for the exhibits and the permanent research archive. He is in charge of live audio and video production, as well as assisting in the development of an in-house audio/video label for world music, for which he is the executive producer. Helene Marsh, MESM ’04, is building one of the first LEED-H Platinum-certified custom homes in Northern California. Tiburon Bay House, which overlooks San Francisco Bay, is intended to far surpass the number of points required to achieve a LEED Platinum rating. www.ucsbalum.com 27 www.ucsbalum.com 27
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Luke Montague, MESM ’04, married Marsha Mueller, an emergency room physician’s assistant from Upland, Calif., at a Sept. 6 wedding on Coronado Island in San Diego. Montague is currently a project manager and general manager for the Ford Mance Company, where he works in mixed use and redevelopment in San Diego. J.J. Sclar, ’04, a graduate of the single subject credential program in History/Social Science at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education was named Teacher of the Year at Olive Pierce Middle School in the Ramona Unified School District. Kristine (Herrington) Wall, MESM ’04, who has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management since 2004, was recently relocated to NOAA’s office in Portland, Ore., to serve as a coastal management specialist for the Pacific Northwest region. Wall works closely with state and local governments in Oregon and Washington on an array of coastal-management issues, supports regional coordination on coastal issues, and oversees a coastal-land acquisition program throughout the West Coast. Last March, after three years as a staff research associate for University of California Cooperative Extension, where she worked on state grants improving agricultural water quality, Dale Zurawski, MESM ’04, accepted a new position as water-quality program manager for the Farm Bureau of Ventura County. She now provides day-to-day oversight and coordination of all Farm Bureau activities related to water-quality regulations and policies, and she represents agriculture as a stakeholder in issues related to water supply and demand. Anais Burke, ’05, M.Ed ’06, completed the single subject teaching credential program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate
Matt Ackley, ’96, has been selected as one of the 2010 Nicholl Fellows by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the same organization that presents the Oscars. Ackley’s script, “Victoria Falls,” about the friendship between two young men in wartorn Zimbabwe, was selected from a record 6,380 entries this year. He will receive a $30,000 prize as part of the fellowship.
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School of Education in 2006. She has taught mathematics at Santa Barbara Junior High School and now teaches at Dos Pueblos High School. Theresa Lancy, MESM ’05, purchased a home in Ventura this past July and now uses public transportation for her commute to Santa Barbara, where she continues to work for the city in the areas of water conservation and water-supply planning. She also became engaged to Brian Yack this past Valentine’s Day; the wedding is slated for summer 2010. Jason Nazar, ’05, received a 2009 Most Admired CEO Award from The Los Angeles Business Journal for his work with DocStoc. com. Nazar is a co-founder of DocStoc.com, an online service focused around sharing professional documents. Danny Openden, SPEDR, Ph.D. ’05, clinical services director of the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center, won an Applied Autism Research Award from the Organization for Autism Research. The project, an extension of the remote parent training program that began at UC Santa Barbara, will examine telemedicine as a mechanism for providing ongoing follow-up training. Karen (Wolowicz) Weiss, MESM ’05, was married to Jeremy Weiss in San Francisco on May 30. She continues to work at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Michael Cromie, ’06, a graduate of the single subject credential program in History/Social Science at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education was named Teacher of the Year at Buena High School in the Ventura Unified School District. Jeff Danciger, ’06, was a College of Creative Studies student who earned the UC Santa Barbara Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in 2006. He is currently in the Ph.D. Program in Mathematics at Stanford University. Yvana Hrovat and Joe Kuhn, both MESM ’06, were married in La Jolla, Calif., in July 2008. Hrovat, an environmental engineer at EDAW AECOM in San Diego, recently co-authored a paper titled “Water Sensitive Urban Design:An Emerging Model In Sustainable Design and Comprehensive Water Cycle Management,” to be published in the Journal of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. Kuhn is the stormwater program manager for the city of La Mesa. Michelle Miller, ’06, just completed a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics at San Diego State University. Her thesis was titled Level Set Methods for Biomedical Imaging. Together with her advisor and a Ph.D. student (who developed the new image processing technique), Miller wrote an article for the Journal of
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Structural Biology and presented a poster at the SIAM Imaging Conference last July. Jeffrey Moniz, Ph.D. ’06, was promoted to associate professor, awarded tenure, and appointed director for the Institute for Teacher Education, Secondary Program at the College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Zach Appelman, ’07, started his first year at Yale University in the MFA acting program. Bliss Dennen, MESM ’07, was recognized by Ford Motor Company as a Top 100 Web Influencer, Video Storyteller, and Adventurer. As one of Ford’s Fiesta Agents, she received a free 2011 Ford Fiesta, which she uses to go on monthly missions, the most recent of which was building a home with Habitat for Humanity. After a two-week Greek vacation in September, Bliss was planning to hop into her car and drive to Cincinnati to begin her new job assignment with Procter & Gamble. Selenne Garcia-Torres, ’07, is in the Ph.D. program at USC studying biomathematics. Jennifer Greif Green, Ph.D. ’07, has been awarded a research grant by the National Academy of Neuropsychology to fund a yearlong study of the effectiveness of neuropsychological evaluations. The study, which began in September, will focus primarily on children and adolescents with learning disabilities. Green is a post-doctoral trainee at NESCA as well as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, where she is involved with research on adolescent medical health. Karen Elizabeth Setty, MESM ’07, was married to Fabio Bolognesi on July 23 at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Orange County, Calif. Setty is currently working at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project in Costa Mesa, Calif. Cliff Dawson, ’08, a graduate of the single subject credential program in science at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and a first-year teacher was named Teacher of the Year at Pacifica High School in the Ventura Unified School District. Paul Kessenich, Ph.D. ’08, has a post-doctoral position at the University of Michigan as a Research Training Groups assistant professor via a grant from the National Science Foundation. After graduating, Nikki Virgilio, ’08, relocated to Arlington, Va., where she is now a forest carbon specialist with The Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Team, working to incorporate lessons learned from TNC’s worldwide portfolio of Forest Carbon Pilot Projects into the domestic and international
policy-making processes. She has been a contributing author on two forest-carbon-related research papers submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and she authored a report titled “Forest Carbon Strategies in Climate Change Mitigation: Confronting Challenges Through on the Ground Experience.” Rahuldeep Gill, Ph.D. ’09, was recently appointed assistant professor of Religion at California Lutheran University.A specialist in Sikh, Hindu and Muslim traditions, Gill’s studies investigate the role of literature in defining communal identity.
IN MEMORIAM William (Bill) Russell, ’40, died in Santa Barbara on Aug. 9, 2009. He was 94. Russell graduated in 1940 from Santa Barbara State College, which would become UC Santa Barbara, where he was captain of the basketball team. After graduation, he served as graduate manager of athletics and student activities at the college through most of the 1940s. In 1950, Russell began serving as the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) commissioner of the Southern Section. In 1956 he was appointed the State Commissioner of Athletics and executive secretary of the nonprofit CIF Protection Fund, which provided affordable insurance for
Robert “Bob” Lorden, ’49, died Oct. 17, 2009. He was 88. Lorden worked in student affairs for 31 years and served on the UCSB Alumni Association Board of Directors. A native of Santa Barbara County, Lorden served in the Navy in World War II and graduated with a degree in Economics from the Riviera campus of UC Santa Barbara in 1949. Starting as an assistant in the Associated Students office upon graduation, Lorden eventually was named the executive director of Associated Students and director of the University Center in 1963. He was responsible for the construction of the current University Center and helped found KCSB. He took the campus newspaper from twice a week to daily publication. In 1977, he was responsible for the opening of the UCEN II expansion project. During his career he brought some of the biggest music acts in the country to Harder Stadium and later oversaw events held at the new Events Center. He retired in 1980. From 1968 to 1974, Lorden was a member of the UCSB Alumni Association Board of Directors. He endowed the Lorden Award for Outstanding Leadership in Service to the Associated Students. In 2006, Lorden received the Alumni Association’s Charles Graver Outstanding Service Award. In recent years, he had been co-chair of the annual Riviera classes reunions held on the Riviera campus and had assisted in raising funds for the Mosher Alumni House.
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athletic participation. He retired in 1980. Russell had laid the groundwork for the CIF to add girls’ sports even before Title IX was passed. In 1998, the UCSB To read more Alumni Association honored Russell Milestones and Class Notes, with its Distinguished Alumni Award log into our online community for his far-reaching work in athletics, at www.ucsbalum.com for service to UC Santa Barbara, his city and his state. Preceded in death by his wife Dorathy, Russell is survived by his daughter and granddaughter, Diana and Thea Vandervoort.
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Margaret Louise (Upson) Hamilton, ’46, died on July 6, 2009. She was born in Casper, Wyoming, on March 20, 1924. In 1942, she attended Pasadena Junior College, and then transferred to Santa Barbara, graduating from Santa Barbara State College in 1946 with a teacher’s credential. In September of 1948 she married Thomas H. Hamilton, an engineer and graduate of Caltech. In 1957 they moved to Santa Rosa, where she was a substitute teacher in elementary and junior high schools. She was very active in the Santa Rosa Ballet Guild and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was one of the founding members of the Santa Rosa Ski Club. Her survivors include her husband; her daughters Sally Bondi, Susan Borgeson, and Carolyn Dixon; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Francis Laufenberg, ’48, died Sept. 22, 2009, in Long Beach, Calif. He was 88. Laufenberg was born in 1921 in Rock Island. After returning from service in WW II as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and torpedo bomber pilot, he earned a bachelor's in Education from UC Santa Barbara and a master's and doctorate in Education at USC. While at UC Santa Barbara, he served as social director for the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He joined the Long Beach Unified School District in 1960 as assistant superintendent for business, and was later named LBUSD superintendent. He retired in 1985 and then served on the California State Board of Education, including two terms as president. Survivors include his wife, Lee; his son Lawrence Laufenberg and his wife, Dena; his daughter Linda Lea Reese and her husband, Ted Reese; two grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Diana Beamish Buchholz, ’53, died Sept. 11, 2009. She was born in Los Angeles on Jan. 6, 1932. While at UC Santa Barbara, she was active in her sorority, Delta Gamma, and remained dear friends with many of her “sisters” until her death. In 1953, she married Lloyd Dunning Buchholz. They had three children, Kathrine, Todd, and David. Buchholz enjoyed gardening, travel, and participating in the Sweet Adelines. Ruth Anne Carter, ’70, died Nov. 6, 2009, in San Jose, Calif. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Santa Barbara. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, she taught English in Boron and San Jose, Calif., for more than 20 years. She was married to
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the late Charles Carter and was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She is survived by her sons and their wives, Chuck and Lora, Howard, Russ and Kate, and Steve and Dina; her sister, Mary Babcock; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Gary Lee Vaucher, ’70, passed away on Feb. 19, 2009, in a Panama helicopter accident. He was 60. An aviator, motorcyclist, and avid outdoorsman, Vaucher remained close with many of his Santa Barbara classmates and friends. He is survived by his wife, Daisy; his mother, Shirley Vaucher; and his two brothers, John and Rusty Vaucher. Steven Charles Thomsen, ’77, died Nov. 6, 2009, in Portland, Maine, after an 11-year battle with multiple myeloma. He was born Sept. 30, 1948, and grew up in Santa Barbara. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, he completed a certificate program and a fellowship focusing on prosthetics and orthotics at UCLA. His career took him to Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield, Mass., where he worked for 25 years before retiring. Thomsen is survived by his wife and daughter. Tim Kedge died May 31, 2009, of leukemia. He was 59. Kedge was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England. He did voluntary service in Africa before going on to college studies. He had been a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara from 1986-89. Kedge had spent 30 years teaching drama at Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, before retiring in 2005. He is survived by his brother and sister, and twin nephews.
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