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UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association | Fall 2014

Nakamura Wins UCSB’s Seventh Nobel

UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jan Campbell ’74, Santa Barbara President Justin Morgan ’07, Los Angeles Vice-President Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara Secretary-Treasurer

UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Fall 2014 Vol. 45, No. 1

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Shanna Bright ’93, El Cajon Jorge Cabrera ’02, Chicago Teresa Carranza ’09, Simi Valley Ron Chiarello ’83, Layfeyette Carl Clapp ’81, Honolulu, HI Manuel Estaban Ph.D.’ 76, Santa Barbara Mark French ’73, Santa Barbara Ralph Garcia ’83, San Mateo Debi Kinney ’97, Henderson NV Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Mary Moslander ’88, San Francisco Kristen Nesbit ’02, Los Angeles Michele Schneider ’91, Los Altos Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Rich St. Clair ’66, Santa Barbara Wenonah Valentine ’77, Pasadena Sue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa Barbara Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, VA Marisa Yeager ’95, Riverside Ex Officio Ali Guthy ‘15 President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Zach Rentz Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 Faculty Representative Ed Birch UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees

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UCSB in Africa

16 FEATURES 16 The Arms Manufacturer

20 African Diaspora Feeds Our Souls 22 Unite to Light

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Around Storke Tower — Campus Community Newsbits

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UCSB Materials Professor Shuji Nakamura Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

By Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs

Shuji Nakamura. Photo: Randall Lamb

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at

the University of California, Santa Barbara, and two others.

The prize is for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources, and is shared with Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Japan; and Hiroshi Amono of Nagoya University.

According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, when Nakamura, Akasaki and Amono “produced bright blue light beams from their semiconductors in the early 1990s, they triggered a fundamental transformation of lighting technology.

Red and green diodes had been around for a long time, but without blue light, white lamps could not be created. Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge for three decades.”

The LED lamp “holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids,” the academy continued.

Nakamura, who is also co-director of the campus’s Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center, is the sixth faculty member at UCSB to have won a Nobel Prize since 1998. UCSB alumna Carol Greider received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

“I am very honored to receive the Nobel Prize from The Royal Swedish Academy of Science for my invention of the blue LED,” said Nakamura. Speaking to a room full of reporters and students who had gathered in the campus’s Engineering Sciences Building for a press conference on Oct. 7, Nakamura said it makes him happy to see his dream of LED lighting become a reality. “Nowadays we can buy energy-efficient

“By making it possible to bring affordable, energyefficient LED lighting to developing countries, Professor Nakamura has also made a tremendous humanitarian contribution to our world.”

—UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang

LED light bulbs at the supermarket and help reduce energy use. I hope this helps global warming, too.”

Praising Nakamura’s great accomplishment, UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang offered his congratulations on behalf of the entire campus community. “We are overjoyed to congratulate our colleague Professor Shuji Nakamura on his Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful day of celebration for all of us at UC Santa Barbara, and for our extended community of scholars, alumni, colleagues, and friends around the world,” said Yang.

“Dr. Nakamura has helped to pioneer a scientific revolution in solid-state lighting, with far-reaching impact on fields ranging from information and communication, to energy and the environment, to health care and life sciences,” Yang continued. “By making it possible to bring affordable, energy-efficient LED lighting to developing countries, Professor Nakamura has also made a tremendous humanitarian contribution to our world.”

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Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

Jack Johnson’s Surprise UCSB Concert UCSB alumnus Jack Johnson ’97, and the members of Animal Liberation Orchestra: Zach Gill ’97, David Brogan ’96, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz ’98 and Steve Adams ’99 took the stage in front of Storke Tower on October 8, 2014 for a surprise concert at the “Come Together: Remember, Photo: Rachael Rutkowski

Reconnect, and Unite” event. The event, sponsored

by Associated Students, was held in commemoration of the six students who lost their lives during the Isla Vista tragedy in May.

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Photo: Sonia Fernandez

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Photo: George Yatchisin

UC Santa Sara Engebrits.

Barbara will have a fine dining venue on campus.

The former Faculty Club, rebranded as The Club at UC Santa Barbara, has opened in the University Center (UCen). Situated in a partitioned section on the second floor of the UCen, the temporary location features a cozy indoor space with seating for approximately 30 guests. The patio accommodates an additional 20. Both areas offer a panoramic view of the campus lagoon “The Faculty Club was always a beacon of hospitality and essentially the campus living room. In its new incarnation, The Club at The UCen will preserve this appeal, offering a fine-dining luncheon option in a comfortable setting for members and the campus community during renovation,” said Sara Engebrits, The Club’s director of member services.

The Club will operate as The Club at The UCen through the 2014-15 academic year while the new building is under construction.

Merith Cosden

Photo: Spenser Bruttig

A Room with a View

Photo: Spencer Bruttig

New Education Deans Appointed

David Marshall

New deans will lead both the undergraduate and graduate education programs into the new school year at UC Santa Barbara. Carl Gutiérrez-Jones has been named acting dean of the UCSB undergraduate education program, taking the place of recently retired Dean Mary Nisbet while Merith Cosden has been appointed acting dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, replacing Jane Close Conoley.

Gutiérrez-Jones is a professor of English and has served the UCSB community since 1990.

Cosden has been at UCSB since 1988 and stood as chair for the Department of Counseling for four years. Mary Betsy Brenner, a professor of education at UCSB since 1991 will act as senior associate dean.

Dr. Marshall will replace Professor Joel Michaelsen, who has served as Interim Executive Vice Chancellor since February and who served as chair to the national search advisory committee responsible for finding a new candidate.

Marshall was a professor at Yale University from 1979 to 1997, serving as Chair of the English Department, Director of the Literature Major, Acting Chair of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, among other appointments.

Research Editorial contributions from the Alumni staff and staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

UCSB’s Station Q and Google’s Move on It It has the name of a deep space outpost.

But inside, it is delving into the smallest man-made tools in history.

Station Q on the UC Santa Barbara campus is where Microsoft is working to develop the qubit, or quantum bit. The qubit is the next great breakthrough in computing. In current computing all work is based on “on and off,” or “0 and 1” bits of electrical charges. While that has allowed computers to work at blinding speed, there are theoretical limits to that speed.

In Station Q, mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists are working to create a physical state that is more than on and off, but is on and off at multiple levels and in multiple parts of an atom. The goal is the quantum computer, the holy grail of computing. The effort is led by Michael Freedman, the recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics.

Now enter Google, the most powerful information technology company in the world.

Google has announced that it too will sponsor a qubit laboratory led by UCSB physicist John Martinis. Only a few weeks earlier, it was announced that Martinis had won the Fritz London Memorial Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in physics, for his work in quantum physics, including research into qubits.

Martinis will work with his team of researchers at Google but continue his affiliation with UCSB where he mentors a group of doctoral students.

Google has claimed that it is near to developing the quantum computer in its Quantum A.I. laboratory with a configuration called a D-Wave machine. Ironically, one of the theoretical skeptics of the D-Wave machine has been Martinis and his group. In an article he co-authored in Science magazine, Martinis argued that the D-Wave configuration was actually no faster than current computers. Earlier this year, he also revealed that his research Group has built its own quantum computing array.

Apparently impressed with his science, Google has decided to bring Martinis into the Google fold to help speed the development, or the debunking, of the D-Wave machine.

Martinis has told technology writers that one of the big reasons for joining Google is that it will help him develop a more permanent team of researchers. Their goal will be to take the Martinis Group’s theoretical work and try to develop real-world applications.

If the UCSB researchers can create the quantum computer, it has the potential to be one of the greatest breakthroughs ever in the world of communication. In an interview with eWeek, Bernie Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of innovation at IBM, said the breakthrough could be best understood by comparing it to human language.

“It would be frustrating to have a conversation where you could only say ‘yes or no’ [or 1 and 0]. What if you could say ‘maybe,’ ” he said.

The potential first applications for the Google quantum chips: driverless cars and automated homes.

As for Martinis, his future is very bright. Ten of the past recipients of the Fritz London prize, which is only awarded every three years, have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.

Illustration: Michael Fang, UCSB Department of Physics, Martinis Group

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Nanodiamonds Are Forever

By Julie Cohen

James P. Kennett, professor emeritus in UCSB’s Department of Earth Science.

Photo: Sonia Fernandez.

Most of North America’s megafauna — mastodons, short-faced bears, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats and American camels and horses — disappeared close to 13,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene period. The cause of this massive extinction has long been debated by scientists who, until recently, could only speculate as to why.

A group of scientists, including UC Santa Barbara’s James Kennett, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science, posited that a comet collision with Earth played a major role in the extinction.

In a new study published in the Journal of Geology, Kennett and an international group of scientists have focused on the character and distribution of nanodiamonds, one type of material produced during such an extraterrestrial collision. The researchers found an abundance of these tiny diamonds distributed over 50 million square kilometers across the Northern Hemisphere at the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB). This thin, carbon-rich layer is often visible as a thin black line a few meters below the surface.

Kennett and investigators from 21 universities in six countries investigated nanodiamonds at 32 sites in 11 countries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Two of the sites are just across the Santa Barbara Channel from UCSB: one at Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, the other at Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island.

Read more at The UCSB Current

Quick Bits

Kathryn Whitehead ’07, an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara. This year, professor Whitehead was named on the MIT Technology Review’s 2014 list of 35 innovators under 35

Dirk Bouwmeester, a Physics professor at UC Santa Barbara and Leiden University in the Netherlands, has won the 2014 Spinoza Prize. Bouwmeester’s current research involves artificial atoms in semiconductors with possible applications in quantum informatics, as well as silver nanoclusters with optical properties inserted in DNA.

Brenda Major, a psychology professor at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology for co-authoring the paper “Social stigma and self-esteem: The selfprotective properties of stigma.”

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Engineering The annual Mini Baja race in Peoria, Illinois is among the most popular intercollegiate design students build competitions in the world. The mission: build one-person off-road car that can drive fast, 4x4 Go-Cart for amaneuver over and around obstacles, and endure Intercollegiate extended run time on inhospitable terrain.

“We just like to build things with our Race hands,” said Tucker Root, one of 10 mechanical engineering seniors split across two teams for the project. “We wanted to build something that we could actually use.”

The ten mechanical engineering students met alternately at the UCSB Engineering fabrication shop on campus and in a well-appointed garage they call “The Barn” in a quiet neighborhood near the university. Over the past year, they designed and built their vehicle, a deceptively simple machine that involves only the most necessary of equipment surrounding the regulation 10-horsepower Briggs & Stratton motor that all the participants in the race are required to use.

To read more, visit UCSB’s The Current online. http://www.news.ucsb.edu.

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Computer Science $6.2 million from DoD to Gaucho Computer Scientists The Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested over $6 million in a collaborative effort between UC Santa Barbara computer scientists and electrical and computer engineers. The goal of the four-year project is to provide a more comprehensive understanding of large, complex networks in real time by using geometry to map data from social and other networks.

The ambitious project leaders — UCSB computer science professors Ben Zhao, Subhash Suri, and Heather Zheng and electrical and computer engineering professor Upamanyu Madhow - have teamed up with Hewlett-Packard which is building scalable graph processing systems to support the endeavor.

“When you look at Facebook, or LinkedIn, or Twitter, you’re talking about networks of more than a billion people,” Professor Zhao told the UCSB Engineering department magazine Convergence. “Traditional algorithms developed and proved near-optimal decades ago no longer apply. Current algorithms scale poorly when the amount of data skyrockets.”

To read more about how UCSB researchers are using geometry to understand fast-moving, complex networks, visit Convergence Magazine at http://convergence.ucsb.edu

UCSB engineering ranks 7th worldwide UCSB ranks #7 in the world in the subject field of “Engineering/Technology and Computer Science,” according to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. More than 1,200 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year, and the best 500 are published.

Grant Supports Research Experience for Undergraduates program

Each summer from 2015 to 2017, 12 students will spend eight weeks working with UCSB faculty on original mathematical research projects as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which has just been given a grant of $352,000 from the National Science Foundation, representative Lois Capps has announced.

REU programs have a track record of recruiting women, minorities, and students from colleges that lack undergraduate research opportunities. Their goal is to expose and retain participants from these underrepresented and underserved groups in the field of mathematics.

“It is critical that we provide our students with educational opportunities in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields,” said Capps. “UCSB and the entire Central Coast community will benefit from the REU program.” The project is under the direction of UCSB Department of Mathematics’s Maria Isabel Bueno Cachadina.

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Research On the Water

From home, via space satellite, you too can help UCSB scientists find giant kelp forests UCSB scientists’ Floating Forests project is simple enough: take 30 years of satellite photographs of coastal kelp-dominated ocean areas and identify the various sizes and locations of those areas over time.

The trouble was, with over 100,000 images to review, scientists and researchers looking to examine the impacts of climate change on giant kelp forests didn’t have enough hours in the days.

In the satellite photos, giant kelp forests appear as little green blobs in a big blue ocean. “What people are actually seeing is the kelp forest canopy floating on the surface of the water,” Byrnes said.

“Computers have trouble distinguishing between sea foam and kelp forest, but to the human eye, it’s easy to see the difference.”

So Jarrett Byrnes, former postdoctoral scholar at UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis teamed up with Kyle Cavanaugh, UCSB alumnus and assistant professor in UCLA’s Department of Geography, and decided to crowdsource the effort.

Participants are shown a photo on the Floating Forest’s website and are asked to circle the kelp forests they see in the photos, then submit the result. The photos are then used to help estimate how much total carbon over time across the globe is locked up in giant kelp.

Oceans of Discovery

UCSB Grad Students Conduct Study for Potential Wind Farm Graduate students of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara, with support from the Sustainable Fisheries Group at UCSB, worked on a year-long research project about the potential for an offshore wind farm. The project’s goal was to assist the Government of Bermuda in evaluating the theoretical viability of offshore wind

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energy. The study, titled Offshore Wind Energy in the Context of Multiple Ocean Uses on the Bermuda Platform, ultimately concluded that offshore wind is viable. The Government of Bermuda has decided to conduct more research into the practical and financial viability before developing a wind farm.

With his interactive ‘telepresence’ program, ocean explorer Robert Ballard looks to make Nautilus Live a regular offering at the campus’s new OCTOS facility “When I found the Titanic, I got 16,000 letters from children the first week, asking ‘Can I do what you do?’ and ‘How can I be you? What do I have to do?’” said Robert Ballard, ‘65, who is the original discoverer of the Titanic and gave the keynote speech at the All Gaucho Reunion 2014. “That’s what led me to doing these live broadcasts. It’s hard to ignore 16,000 letters when I wrote one of those myself as a kid. And I really enjoy sharing my experiences.”

Which is why Ballard is teaming with his alma mater and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s CINMS to bring his educationaimed broadcast program — Nautilus Live, as it’s known — to campus as a regular offering of OCTOS, once the center is up and running. UCSB is leading an ongoing $10 million capital campaign to design and complete state-of-the-art educational exhibits, such as an interactive virtual dive display and an immersive theater, planned at OCTOS. “We want Santa Barbara to think of the Nautilus as theirs, because it is,” said Ballard, a newly elected trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.

“We want people from UCSB and the Santa Barbara community — students, teachers, educators, scientists — all to say, ‘That’s my ship.’”

The ROV Hercules hovers over the wreckage of a German U-boat discovered

by Robert Ballard’s expedition team, the Corps of Exploration.

Photo: Courtesy Ocean Exploration Trust

Arts Kip Fulbeck’s Hapa Project Unpacks American Identity Boxes UCSB art professor Kip Fullbeck comes from a Chinese mother and a father of English/Irish descent. He grew up in the LA area and recently told KCET “when I had to fill out that form as a kid that said ‘check one box’ it was always essentially, pick [between] mom or dad.”

Struggles for ethnic and cultural identity are a large part of American history, but in practice, finding a sense of belonging within disparate communities is perhaps trickier today than ever before.

“So I thought how cool it could be to have a project where anyone that didn’t fit into a box could have their picture taken and write their own statement about who they were in their own words,” said Fullbeck.

Expositions of the Hapa project are set up for interactivity: arrive at a gallery, like the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History this past Summer, take a Polaroid of yourself, write a caption response to the question “What are you?” in your own words, and place your entry up on the wall with others who don’t fit neatly into one established group or another.

Subjects are photographed in a “minimalist” style - head-on, nude from the shoulders up, without glasses, jewelry, makeup or much of any facial expression. The cumulative effect is impressive, as you can see for yourself on the project website. The term ‘tapestry’ comes to mind. Then ‘melting pot’. And in this age of profile picture ubiquity, semantic tagging and persistent categorization of ourselves and what we make, it might be that we need more Fullbecks to challenge our increasingly Zuckerbergian notions of who we are.

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Arts The annual Summer program concluded with a performance—to a packed house—at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. Along the way, the boys wrote a script; learned dance, movement, and mime; got coaching from professional rapper Roc$tedy; practiced the craft of mask making; and learned new ways Pedro Pasqual, Donelle Smith and Catalino Santiago. of inhabiting the world.

Photo: George Foulsham Now in its fourth year, UCSB theater arts program helps young offenders The Odyssey Project re-examine their own life odysseys brings a group of boys from Santa Barbara’s Los Prietos Boys Camp for

Young Offenders Find a New Home(r)

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troubled teens to UCSB over the course of six weeks to produce and perform their own version of Homer’s “Odyssey.”

“I’ve always wanted to combine the classics with contemporary issues,” said UCSB voice instructor Michael Morgan.

“Marginalized people have, for me, always been a very important issue in terms of making sure they get heard. I’m a voice teacher and I have a mission to help people get heard.”

One of Morgan’s goals with The Odyssey

Project is to provide the teens with guidance and understanding but also with the experience of holding them accountable.

“There’s a lot to learn,” he said. “These teens don’t often have the opportunity of knowing what it’s like to be groomed or to be actually cared about by a group of expert teachers and mentors working with them, energizing their creativity.”

Read more about the incredible Odyssey Project at the UCSB Current

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Sports Golfer Dedicates SB Championship to IV Classmates Gaucho golfer Brett Silvernail won his second consecutive Santa Barbara City Golf Championship earlier this year, just a few days after the Isla Vista tragedy in May. Silvernail, who held the lead coming into the final day, dedicated the win to his peers and those affected by the shooting.

“One of the girls in the shooting died in [my friend’s] arms. That really touched me. I couldn’t imagine being near that situation and seeing anything, and I especially couldn’t imagine having someone die in my arms. My heart goes out to them, and this victory is for them.”

The two-time, still-reigning champion scored four birdies and just a single bogey on the final day, scoring a 66, to keep him well ahead of the field but within reach of mourning being felt by his community.

“It makes it easier, in a sense,” Silvernail told the Santa Barbara News-Press after the win. “You realize that golf is just golf. It’s important to me, and I put a lot of emphasis in it, and I’ve worked a long time for it, but it is just golf compared to life. You see the tragedy that the friends and family have to go through. That’s who I really feel bad for, especially the parents. You look at that, and golf is so minuscule in comparison.”

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Interim Athletics Director Steps in for Massari Mark Massari, Director of Athletics at UC Santa Barbara since 2008, has left the school to accept the position of Deputy Director of Athletics at Oregon State University. Former UCSB Director of Athletics Gary Cunningham (1995-2008) stepped in as Interim Director of Athletics beginning August 1 while a national search is conducted for Massari’s replacement.

Massari has overseen an athletics department that includes 20 NCAA Division I programs, nearly 500 student-athletes, and 100 staff members. During his tenure, UCSB’s NCAA graduation success rate has risen to an alltime high of 85%, second in the University of California system.

“I am extremely proud of what has been accomplished as a campus together,” Massari said.

“My family and I have been fortunate to be beside such incredibly talented and dedicated coaches, staff, student-athletes, donors, and alumni. Isla Vista and UCSB are in our hearts. We have loved being Gauchos.”

Among Massari’s accomplishments are the “Dare to Be Great” campaign and the establishment of the Gaucho Fund, resulting in the largest number of annual donors to athletics

Mark Massari. Photo:UCSB Athletics

ever, including the first $1 million dollar gift to a women’s program (basketball) and the single largest gift to athletics ($2 million for scholarships) in program history. Massari also introduced the “Walk of Champions” plan which was instrumental in raising funds to renovate Harder Stadium and allowed UCSB to host the 2010 NCAA College Cup, the first national championship event held on campus in 35 years.

“I want to thank Mark sincerely for the leadership he has provided to our athletics department since 2008, and especially for his inspirational mentorship of our studentathletes and coaches,” said Chancellor Henry Yang in a statement to the university community. Congratulations to Mark on taking on this wonderful opportunity at one of the finest Pac-12 Conference athletics programs. We wish Mark and his family the best in this new opportunity.”

In competition, seven different Gaucho teams have advanced to 20 separate postseason appearances during Massari’s six years.

Women’s Swim and Dive Earns Team Scholar All-American Award The UC Santa Barbara women’s swimming and diving program was honored with a CSCAA Scholar All-American Team award after recording a collective 3.13 GPA over the winter quarter.

“This award is a testament to the work that our student-athletes have done in and out of the pool,” said head coach Gregg Wilson. “To perform that well in the classroom while in season is no small feat.”

The Team Scholar All-American Award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams who have achieved a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The award is presented twice annually, once in the fall semester and again in the spring, to recognize teams achieving a 3.0 in the semester coinciding with their respective NCAA championships. Even more impressively, the women’s swim and dive program raised its team GPA to 3.36 for the Spring Quarter.

The award continues a strong tradition of academic success for UCSB Athletics, as the Gauchos boasted an 85% NCAA graduation rate for the 2013-14 year, matching an all-time high and ranking second-best in the academically prestigious UC system.

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UCSB in Africa

How Not Impossible Labs Became an Arms Manufacturer

By Nick Smith Project Daniel: Mohammad and Daniel.

Mick Ebeling, ‘92, refuses to see the world like the rest of us. When asked to help fight ALS, most people offer their time, donate resources or, more recently, pour ice water over themselves and post a video online. Ebeling, with no technical training or background in engineering, invented a pair of glasses that allows the paralyzed to write with their eyes.

His journey into Sudan’s Nuba Mountains starts with a Time magazine article and ends with the world’s least expensive, most accessible prosthetic limb. To get there, Mick founded Not Impossible Labs, an organization committed to “disrupting the story of healthcare.”

More importantly, Ebeling’s work is changing the trajectory of people’s lives in ways those people couldn’t see coming. After Daniel Omar’s arms were taken by a bomb dropped by his own government, after his wounds had healed and the realization set in that he would never again bathe or feed himself, depression and hopelessness set in. Until, that is, Mick Ebeling flew to Sudan.

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[Meet Mick] He might have designed himself.

Born in Long Beach and raised in Phoenix where his parents started Arizona’s first abused women’s shelter, philanthropy “was always a part of my life.” He chose the Air Force Academy in Colorado where he played D1 basketball on a full ride, but transferred to UC Santa Barbara in 1990.

“I wanted to play more and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to stay in the military for the rest of my life,” says Ebeling. “I applied to UC Santa Barbara, and I got in, thankfully, with a little help from the volleyball coach there, Ken Preston [‘70].”

When 4 a.m. rides home to Isla Vista on a borrowed bike from his job as a bouncer at a long-closed State Street bar grew tiresome, Ebeling turned entrepreneurial to help pay room and board. He and a Lambda Chi Alpha brother started a business selling jeans, then outfits to sororities for volleyball tournaments. There may be stories in Ebeling’s forthcoming book, “about some of the things that happened at Santa Barbara...different things that I was doing just to put myself through school that ended Ebeling is a Gaucho of up turning into good businesses.”

Along with the vast differences incredible determination, between student life in a military but that doesn’t fully explain academy and on the beach, the what motivates a person to “Yin and Yang as far as college experience goes,” Ebeling finish reading a magazine emphasizes “the friendships article, walk out the front made” during his time at UCSB. door and go change the lives Some of his fraternity brothers spoke at his wedding, and of everyone about whom his children’s godparents are they’ve just read.

Gauchos. “It was an incredible community that came out of Santa Barbara.”

With his UCSB political science degree, Ebeling eventually became a film and animation producer. The Ebeling Group is behind projects including, famously, the title sequence for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace and credits for the Will Ferrell film Stranger than Fiction.

But the path he is on now began in 2007 when he met the Southern California street artist Tempt One. Tempt has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and, slipping into paralysis, could no longer communicate with friends and loved ones. Ebeling walked into a meeting with Tempt’s family with the intention of helping to cover some of their medical costs. By the time he walked out he had promised, despite knowing almost nothing about ALS or ocular technologies, to find a way for Tempt and his family to communicate again. “Meeting Tempt and the EyeWriter are why I’m [here],” says Ebeling. “I believe the things that you experience in your life are what gives rise to other things and significant moments lead to significant outcomes.”

The outcome in this case was the EyeWriter, a device created by a geographically dispersed team of volunteer experts which not only gave Tempt and his loved ones the ability to communicate, but allowed him to start making art again. It was also in this process that Not Impossible Labs was formed and began it’s incredible campaign to crowd-source the design and production of low-cost, do-it-yourself (DIY) medical devices.

To ensure those devices have the greatest possible impact, their designs

are released on open-source licenses so anyone can use,

customize and improve them.

Ebeling’s upbringing in a family dedicated to giving back, the discipline required to play D1 basketball (and to survive two years at Air Force) and his skills as a producer, managing projects and talent seem, in hindsight, are a near perfect formation for a man who is now unleashing a tidal wave of creative disruption on healthcare.

“My dad grew up in the depression, so I think he always had a feeling of being grateful for what he had. My mom came from a very large family—nine brothers and sisters —neither of them grew up in even any kind of middle class environment, so I think that my dad was able to, you know, have a successful business—I think there was just a tremendous feeling of wanting to give back and appreciation,” says Ebeling.

Ebeling is a Gaucho of incredible determination, but that doesn’t fully explain what motivates a person to finish reading a magazine article, walk out the front door and go change the lives of everyone about whom they’ve just read.

[Daniel Omar’s Sudan] Like many families in the Nuba mountains, a region near the border of North and South Sudan, the Omars feel free to mix religions. “My father and mother are Muslims,” said Daniel Omar. “But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.”

Despite the religious tolerance of the Nuba People, the Sudan in which Daniel Omar is growing up is among the most conflict-ridden regions on earth - its history is the story of persistent conflict and suffering. Anglo-Egyptian imperialism began in 1899 and gave way to a first civil war in 1955, then a second in 1983. In 2011, South Sudan was officially granted sovereignty by referendum, but a bloody South Sudanese civil war has been raging there ever since.

Among the Sudanese who have survived this history, these wars, and who have lost their limbs and endured debilitation, many wonder, given what their country seems always to have been, what chance is there for hope? Which is exactly what Daniel Omar asked himself after a bomb dropped by his own government took both his arms.

“I was at El Dar, taking care of our cows,” said Omar. “I heard the sound of an Antonov so I lay down. Then I could hear that it had released a bomb and it was coming down on me. So I jumped up, ran behind a tree, and wrapped my arms around it.” The move behind that tree may have saved Daniel’s life, but when he looked down he saw blood. “I saw my hands were not there. I could not even cry. I stood up, and started walking, then I fell down. A soldier came and picked me up and put me in the shade. Then he got a car.

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Project Daniel Volunteers.

And they washed and bandaged me, and brought me here.”

The here in this case was the clinic of Dr. Tom Catena at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in rebel-controlled Southern Sudan. Catena has saved hundreds of lives and performed dozens of amputations since arriving in the area in 2008. In 2011, Sudan’s Khartoum-based government started launching attacks targeted at Nuba-based guerrilla rebels. Those attacks escalated into what Catena called “premeditated civilian bombing … to terrorize people and force them out of their homes.”

For Omar, once his arms healed into rounded, scarless nubs, the troubles were just beginning. “Without hands, I can’t do anything,” said Omar. “If I could have died, I would have.”

[Prosthetics Problems] Prosthetic limbs are expensive; up to $10,000 per finger, as Richard Van As found out after losing four fingers from his right hand to a table saw. Not only are they expensive, they aren’t very good. “I started investigating things online and all of the different prosthetics that are available,” said Van As. “None of them are functional, as in returning functionality to your hand.”

“I had actually decided, when I was in the emergency room, that I’m going to make a set of fingers for myself,” said Van As. “I originally asked a lot of people for some help, and I sort of was turned down before you could even open up a discussion with people, by them saying ‘it’s impossible.’ And the more people told me it’s impossible the more I decided it was possible.”

From his home in South Africa, Van As found a YouTube video of an alien-like mechanical hand created by special effects hobbyist Ivan Owen in Bellingham Washington. The two men began collaborating at a distance. Progress was painstakingly slow until Makerbot, developers of 3D printing technologies, donated a pair of 3D printers, one for each collaborator. It was “an incredible boost to the speed with which we can do this,” Van As explained. Suddenly, they were able to iterate through design versions more quickly. They started a blog to document their efforts.

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Ebeling and Omar at the computer.

A South African woman named Yolandi reached out to Van As on behalf of her five year old son Liam, whose prenatal condition called Amniotic Band Syndrome had left him with no fingers on his right hand. Owen and Van As made their first Robohand for Liam and released their designs for free online.

Looking for a next step after the EyeWriter’s success, Ebeling found Van As and began a kind of makers’ courtship. “We had done an article on Richard, the work he was doing in South Africa, in May 2013. And then two months later on July 11th, I discovered the article on Dr. Tom,” says Ebeling. “We love to tell about people who are making the impossible possible, and so Richard embodies that more than anybody I know. He’s someone who just took matters into his own hands and created an incredible solution and then gave that solution away for free.”

[Scaling Goodness] “I just knew how to produce projects and I’m really passionate about something when I sink my teeth into it,” Ebeling says of what’s allowed him to upend the medical device space with The goal was to create no technical background.

After reading about Omar a sustainable solution and Catena, Ebeling went for amputees in the Nuba looking for ways to help, and his mountains. friend Van As was an obvious place to start. This time, with the successful EyeWriter under his belt and its more sophisticated sister project the BrainWriter in development, Ebeling knew more about designing systems that people can pick up and use on their own.

This was particularly important in a place like Sudan where interethnic conflict and the bodily harm it causes aren’t going away because a westerner flies in with a day or week’s worth of supplies.

The goal, much more than to replace the arms of Daniel Omar, was to create a sustainable solution for amputees in the Nuba mountains and elsewhere.

A Not Impossible Labs team assembled and started working on

Mick Ebeling and Daniel Omar High Five.

a system they could bring to Sudan and leave there. Besides speed, another advantage of 3D printing is cost - though the printers themselves are still expensive, the materials needed to produce a limb from Not Impossible’s final design cost around $10. With his team’s research and Van As’ practical experience, Ebeling began practicing printing and assembling the parts. He stopped by Van As’ house in South Africa to finish training on his way to Sudan, where it would take days to reach the village where Omar lived.

There are videos online about Ebeling’s trip, and they’re worth watching. Particularly moving are back to back shots: the first of an armless Omar, a morbid, defeated look on his face, being fed by a boy his own age; the second of Omar’s strange new fingers grasping cutlery, guiding spoonfuls from the plate up to his own mouth.

Once Omar was fitted with his new prosthetics, Ebeling showed other villagers how to use the equipment to replicate the process. They set up a prosthetics lab, and when Mick came back to the US, he left the 3D printers and other materials behind. “People haven’t seen a screwdriver, they haven’t seen a drill,” said Van As. “Then Mick arrives, and he’s got 3-D printers, and it’s so simple.” What Not Impossible accomplished was to provide, rather than a one-time aid package, a sustainable resource for dealing with a prolific issue in Sudan and elsewhere.

Richard Van As now owns a T-shirt that reads “International Arms Dealer - in a good way.”

[“Help One, Help Many”] Project Daniel has grown past Omar and past Sudan.

Because Not Impossible and Robohands’ design are open source, people from all over the world have downloaded and used them, giving themselves and loved ones dexterity they’ve never had or thought they’d never get back.

Part of the EyeWriter and of Project Daniel’s success had to do with the ease and affordability with which anyone

Project Daniel Training.

All photos courtesy of NOT impossible [labs]

could make these at home. Without releasing their designs open source and without the reduction and centralization of costs brought on by 3D printers, these projects wouldn’t have succeeded as they have. “This is like a story that never ends, so people tell it and then someone else picks it up and keeps “Doing good telling it in a new way, or a different way and they make modifications,” said Ebeling. can be a good Not Impossible Labs is also driven by business” volunteers. “We have a slate of projects and those projects start and stop based on the volunteers that come on board to them and [some] projects haven’t taken off nearly as much as some of the other ones,” says Ebeling. “When you have things that are crowd-sourced you have to go with the whims and the interest because the crowd very much dictates how things evolve.”

[Grander Designs] Mick Ebeling has become a celebrity of sorts. He is asked to speak at events and conferences around the world, he has a TED talk, Simon and Schuster published book of his coming out in early 2015, and will give the commencement address at a UCSB graduation ceremony next year.

Despite the impact of the projects he takes on with Not Impossible, his ambitions seem to extend beyond healthcare. “What we’re doing at Not Impossible is work that we believe is going to help evolve our planet, but we’re also not a non-profit,” says Ebeling. “We figured out ways to do this and to create global change and to be able to create something that is sustainable and self sustaining. And that’s something that I’m probably most proud of right now: we’re on the verge of a new type of thinking within business right now - that doing good can be a good business.”

Success is attainable, Ebeling advises a new generation of Gauchos, “as long as you’re driven, as long as you work hard, you do good, you be nice, and you, you know, work hard again.”

“Knowing that everything is possible is a pretty great way to wake up every morning.”

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African Diaspora Feeds Our

How can it be that a continent with 54 countries and more than 1 billion people is still so little understood by the country that considers itself the world’s leader?

Yes, Ebola makes it to the front page.

Wars and tribal genocides crop up on the inside news pages. A famine is always ready to fill the prime time TV. But with China snapping up African natural resources and the World Bank predicting that the African continent economic growth rates will surpass parts of East Asia, maybe it is time for Americans to pay attention.

At UC Santa Barbara, there are only a handful of African specialists. While the study of African American literature, culture, and society is robust, the study of Africa itself is far more limited.

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Geroge Thurlow, ’73

This coming year, there will be an additional focus on Africa with the arrival of one of the University of Southern California’s African experts, Dr. Shana Redmond. Redmond has been named the Ella Baker Visiting Professor in the UC Santa Barbara Black Studies Department. Her research focuses on the cultural impacts of the African diaspora as well as the limitations of traditional aid projects in Africa.

Between the 16th and 19th century, 23 million Africans were forcibly removed from their homeland, with 11 million coming to the U.S. It was the largest forced migration in human history. Out of that diaspora culture spread across the world influencing host cultures but also holding together African communities in the New World.

Yet trying to make sense of today’s one Africa is difficult. “Africa is not a country, it’s a continent,” she said during a recent interview. “My thoughts about Africa are complicated because it is such an incredibly diverse region.” In the north are the Arab states of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, all of which have been in political and democratic tumult in recent years. On the west is the Ebola outbreak that is more challenging because borders have become porous with increasing wealth. To the south, noted Redmond, there is the 25th anniversary of democracy in South Africa. In the center, bitter wars and brutal dictators.

Much of what we see is the continuing legacy of the colonial era that in Redmond’s words, “has become entrenched” with countries like Rwanda still trying to “throw off the yoke of colonialism.”

Yet Americans still know little about the continent, and Redmond points to her home institution as being woefully short on academics and teachers on Africa. She said it is “tragic” that USC has no “classically trained Africanist on its faculty.” The continent is critical to the future of the U.S., not just because of its raw materials, but also, because there will be chronic security issues from Libya to Sudan to Somalia.

Just as important is the future growth of Africa as a billion consumers enter the world marketplace. As Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del) recently wrote in the influential capital newsletter “The Hill,” when Americans hear about Africa, “we’re more accustomed to hearing about conflict and strife, disease and famine than about opportunity…

Africa is home to strong growing economies, emerging middle classes, budding democracies and vast natural and human resources. There are extraordinary opportunities for investment and partnerships—built on mutuality and

Souls

Shana Redmond at the Dak’Art Festival 2014 in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Shana Redmond.

respect—that can both move America forward and enable African-led solutions to African challenges.”

Coons said it is time to move beyond the view of Africa through the “lens of foreign aid,” a notion that is echoed by Redmond. She believes that many philanthropic endeavors in Africa are “well-intentioned” but most are not sustainable. Therefore rather than solving problems, they perpetuate them and lead to dependency. Not unlike the deeper economic and social issues in the U.S., the solution to Africa’s problems, she argued, is “structural responses. Fundamentally, these nations are in deep disrepair and in structural crisis. No number of NGOs (Non Government Organizations) will fix this.”

Don Petterson (BA ’56, MA ’58) was a Foreign Service officer for over 35 years, serving in nine African countries, three times as the US ambassador. His first book, Inside Sudan, is an account of his years there. President Jimmy Carter said it “Offers the insights of an experienced diplomat for greater understanding of both past and future events in Sudan.” Mother Jones said the book “...provide[s] a compelling entrée into the country’s quagmire and offer[s] a unique glimpse of the inner workings of U.S. foreign policy.”

He also wrote Revolution in Zanzibar, which tells of what happened before, during, and after the 1964 violent uprising

Redmond is working on a book that critiques the philanthropy of the First World towards Africa and in particular the “We Are The World” fundraising campaign. Like other critics, she feels the whole “We Are The World” philosophy was that the U.S. and its artists are “The World” and the rest of the world is somewhere else. She also argued that it was an example of the U.S. culture “flexing its virility” in showing how it could “save” another continent, while ignoring its own economic disasters. “Why was there no anthem [like We Are The World] for Katrina victims,” she asked.

What is the answer for students and alumni of UC Santa Barbara?

As any professor would advise, “do a lot of reading, do a lot of talking, and find your passion,” she said.

Work on learning culture and history, then search out where your passion for philanthropy lies. “I encourage people to think beyond the non-profit model. I know that is hard.” But other models like teaching or working in the media can also have impacts. So too does “unaffiliated travel” where Americans get off the “safari trail” and move among the people and cities of the world.

During her year at UC Santa Barbara, Redmond hopes to work with the campus’ Center for Black Studies Research and their Haitian research. She also plans to work as the faculty advisor to the Black Studies Journal, a collection of research papers written by undergraduates.

of Africans on the fabled spice island that overthrew the Arab-dominated government. The revolution caught the attention of the world and ushered in a period of close ties with the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries. For a time Petterson, then a junior diplomat, was the only American on the island.

Petterson recently published Old Man on a Bicycle, the story of his adventurous solo bicycle ride across the country in which he interweaves advice on how to realize a more enjoyable old age.

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One and a half billion people lack direct access to electricity and rely on firewood, candles, or kerosene for lighting.

Kerosene is a triple threat — expensive, unhealthy, and dangerous. It produces carbon soot and other pollutants and millions of children face severe chronic health problems from constant exposure to kerosene lamps.

Unite to Light Shines Hope on Lives of Millions

Moreover, the absence of suitable home lighting is directly linked to illiteracy, poverty, and health problems around the world. Too many children are burned or impacted by house fires linked to lighting - too many, at least, for a group of Gauchos at UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) who felt compelled to fix the problem on a global scale.

So far Unite to Light has created two lights: the UTL-1 reading lamp and the UTL-C light and USB charger. But the team’s ambition is perhaps best shown in their vision of how their products might most stably proliferate the globe.

“We are pretty particular about who our partners are, distributors who will come back again and again” says Unite to Light President, Dawn O’Bar. “Follow-up is important; our partners have found that 98% of lights are still around and still working,” years later.

At first, the light was specifically designed to be a reading lamp, but today the light is put to use in orphanages, disaster areas, and medical clinics and is even included in birthing kits, distributed through hundreds of organizations in over 60 countries on 4 continents. “These lights aren’t being re-sold in marketplaces - people need them so much. Theft can be problem, says O’Bar. “We’ve seen in some areas people shining the lights around so lions don’t kill their goats.”

Unite to Light emphasizes their lights be sold, as opposed to given away, and some distributors sell them at profit. The reasoning behind this is systemic sustainability, both environmental and economic. If distributors sell the lights, they can place new orders and get even more lights into the hands of people who need them. By this model, any lights donated into the Unite to Light system will see a multiplier effect, and the lights that are purchased last longer because of recipients’ pride of ownership. The organization is also working on a business model for girls and women in particular to support themselves and their families by selling the lights. “When you deliver a light to someone,” says O’Bar. “Usually three, four, five people around them are also affected - they all get access to the light.”

Here’s how it all started: roughly five years ago, a Santa Barbara non-profit, Goleta Presbyterian Church and Pangaea, focused on improving living conditions in Ghana, arranged for Ghanaian Pastor Kofi Fosuhene and Dr. Osei Darkwa to visit the IEE. Aware of the Institute’s work on high-efficiency LEDs and solar cells, Fosuhene and Darkwa asked if the Institute could design an affordable reading light to help more children study more safely at home. Although many solar powered flashlights were already available, none were designed specifically to address both safety and literacy in a long-term sustainable way.

John Bowers (Director of the IEE, eventual Founder of Unite to Light and current Chair of its Board), engineer Jock Bovington, and Engineers without Borders’ UCSB Lighting Group became involved in this Unite-to-Light brings individual solarproblem, along with three local engineers: David Schmidt on electronics, Norm Gardner on the physical powered LED lights to communities layout, and Marty Jenkins on quality and reliability. in Africa that are off the grid—where, After the team had worked through several designs, the first samples (100 in all) were sent to Ghana normally, people who want to read or and met with enthusiasm. Then greater distribution began: 800 lights sent to Presbyterian churches study after dark have no alternative to throughout the country. Quickly, a non-sectarian non-profit was formed - a 501c3 application with hazardous and unhealthy lights.

Photos: Unite To Light the IRS was received in late 2010 - to continue technological iterations and develop relationships with manufacturing companies and distributors.

Distribution partners include other non-profits, relief organizations, individuals developing small businesses in villages, private businesses, and service clubs. Rotary International and Direct Relief International, a worldwide charity providing disaster relief and other services, have become key partners. Unite to Light is now engaging with other organizations to supply solar based lighting and solar powered lights with chargers to the developing world.

Learn more about Unite to Light at www.unite-to-light.org and UCSB’s IEE online at http://iee.ucsb.edu/unite_to_light.

By George Thurlow, ’73

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Milestones

— Connecting thru the Alumni Association

1940s Ron Weller, ’47, of the 12th Armored Division, the efforts of which helped bring victory during World War II, has been honored with the Hellcat Award for 2014 – the highest honor bestowed by the 12th Armored Division. Ron received his BA in Sociology from UCSB, has worked in education most of his life and now lives in Santa Ana, CA with his wife of 67 years, Dorothy.

Sam Cathcart, ’49, turned 90 on July 7th this year. Sam grew up during the Great Depression to a father who sold the family farm and moved them to Long Beach, California. Sam served in World War II as a member of the 75th Infantry Division. During the war, Sam sent letters to his high school sweetheart Susan Curry-Cathcart, who he married May 8, 1944 while on furlough. Sam attained the rank of sergeant, became a squad leader, and won a Silver Star. After the war, Sam attended UC Santa Barbara, majoring in physical education. During his time at UC Santa Barbara, Sam excelled at football, boxing, and track and field, earning a place in the Gaucho Athletic Hall of Fame. Sam’s football talent also earned him a spot on the San Francisco 49ers, where he played for three seasons before finding a better paying position to support a growing family - the head coach at Santa Barbara High where he coached for nineteen seasons. Sam celebrated his birthday with his three sons, daughter, and grandchildren.

1950s Paula Di Fiore, ’53, won the Martin P. Mathiesen Award for her service as an educator and community leader in the state of California. She earned a BA in Music at UC Santa Barbara.

1960s Susan Cumins, ’67, has fourteen botanical illustrations appearing in The Big Bad Book of Botany by Michael

Largo. A selection was featured in an exhibition in August 2014 at the Coral Gables Museum in Florida. Since 2012, Susan has been a feature writer for New York-based The Botanical Artist, Journal of the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Susan has a BA in art.

In 1964, Victor Schaff, ’68, and his wife Susan packed their one-year-old daughter and all their belongings into a 1956 Ford and drove to Santa Barbara to continue their college education at UCSB. Even then Victor wondered, “Where does Southern California get its water?” One of Victor’s college jobs was collecting and selling Lupine seed to a local seed man. He soon learned that the erosion control industry was looking for low water and drought resistant seeds for non-irrigation projects, and there were virtually no native plant seeds available. With botanical book in hand, Victor drove throughout much of California, collecting seeds of native species, and S&S Seeds business was born. Under Victor’s guidance, S&S Seeds has developed into the largest native plant seed supplier in California, with customers throughout the United States and abroad. Victor Schaff won Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2014 South Coast Business and Technology Awards dinner.

Richard Olsson, ’68, retired in March 2014 from Wells Fargo with a 45 year career. He majored in economics.

1970s William Stock ‘71, has had local, regional, national, and international interaction with Y Service Club. He has had a Fresno State career in Student Affairs spanning 36 years, including campus, division, and departmental interaction and recognition. William was also active during initial stages of reactivating local Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (a statewide CSU group of faculty interested in postretirement service to their respective campuses and the condition of California

postsecondary education in general). He majored in Counseling & Ed. Psych.

Joan Lindsay Kerr, ’71, retired in June, 2014 from a 30 year career in education. She currently serves as the president of the California Association for the Gifted and co-authored the CAG publication, The Leadership Challenge: A Guidebook for Administrators.

George Baldonado, ’74, is the owner of his own business, Oasis Technology.

George majored in Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, and fell in love with computing program after taking a required class on it.

Judith Van Houten, ’76, has become the first recipient of the President’s Distinguished University Citizenship and Service Award. Judith began working at the University of Vermont in 1980, and over the years, she has become a world-class researcher and scholar in chemosensory transduction and principal investigator of statewide grants for Vermont. Judith has held administrative positions such as chair of the Biology Department and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She has also served on many committees. Her fundraising has resulted in over $124.5 million in grants. Her leadership helped to bring high-bandwidth connectivity to UVM, providing capacity and means for UVM’s research to flourish. She has a PhD in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara.

Jack Bermingham, ’79, has won the Diversity Visionary Award from Insight into Diversity magazine for his dedication to bringing diversity to Highland College in Des Moines, Washington. As president, he has supported the Faculty Senate in the creation of a Diversity and Globalism requirement and the Instruction Cabinet in initiating a Diversity and Globalism department. Today, Highline is the most diverse educational institution in Washington state. He has a PhD in History.

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How four simple retirement planning ideas came together to make one powerful gift: ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢

It’s time to downsize from our house and simplify.

Let’s make sure we have enough retirement income.

Are there tax benefits for us now?

We want a plan that will ultimately benefit UC Santa Barbara.

Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp brought their ideas to the Office of Major Gift Planning and we helped them to come up with a specific plan that:

Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp and Suzanne Mellichamp, M.A. Education, 1970.

• Provides generous supplemental income for life.

• Takes advantage of all possible tax benefits as they move from house to lower maintenance condo.

• Makes a generous provision that will ultimately benefit a cluster of endowed professorships at UC Santa Barbara.

How was all this accomplished?

Not surprisingly, their home had appreciated significantly.

First, we made sure that they would receive directly their

If you have similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director, Office of Development at (805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email plannedgiving@ia.ucsb.edu.

For more gift ideas and examples, please visit www.plannedgiving.ucsb.edu

$500,000 in tax-exempt appreciation as well as their original investment in the property. The balance that remained went into a charitable remainder trust to provide income for their lifetimes, then for their legacy at UCSB. The UCSB Foundation, as trustee of the trust, managed the sale­— working hard to ensure that the highest possible sale price was realized.

As Professor Mellichamp says, “We received a major tax deduction every year for five years instead of a tax bill from the sale of our house, and the proceeds were reinvested to supplement our retirement income. Best of all, a much larger gift will eventually go to the UCSB Mellichamp Endowment than we could have afforded otherwise. How was all this possible? Only because the feds and state are willing to be such generous co-donors … what a great way to maximize the impact of your assets!”

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— Connecting thru the Alumni Association

1980s Brad Tisdale, ’85, has opened Tisdale Insurance and Estate Services in Santa Barbara. Tisdale is certified by the Corporation for Long Term Care and the Institute of Business and Finance.

Previously, Tisdale worked at Mission Wealth Management and Long Term Preferred Care. He graduated with degrees in political science and German, and received his master’s degree in sports management from the U.S. Sports Academy in Daphne, Ala. He had previously worked as the associate athletic director at UCSB in charge of external operations, marketing and corporate sponsorships.

Tracy Mannon ‘81, recently published the book Travels with Tyler: A Mom’s Journey with Her Aspie Son about life and travel with a child on the spectrum. She majored in French.

Jeanine Gore, ’82, recently retired as superintendent of Mupu School.

Jeanine began working for the school in 1982, and she became the Principal/ Superintendent in 1992, continuing to also teach until 1998. Jeanine worked at Mupu for 32 years. She majored in English.

Women’s Economic Ventures founder and CEO Marsha Bailey ’84, was recently appointed to the National Women’s Business Council, a group that advises Congress, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Obama Administration on issues that affect female entrepreneurs.

Brian Spence, ‘86, owns a small business, Deployable Space Systems, that has developed a solar panel that is lightweight, durable, relatively affordable, and has NASA’s interest.

NASA sees the company’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) as a potential aid to humans living on Mars. Brian has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara.

Susan Goodale ’86, program director for the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association has taken a position as the Development Officer for the Office of Student Affairs. Goodale will be assisting in fundraising for scholarships, programs and student related projects.

Goodale has worked in the alumni office for more than 25 years spearheading the Student Alumni Association, the Gaucho Getaways and the Career Connections programs. She has received national awards for her work as well as serving in a leadership role with national collegiate travel associations.

She has mentored scores of interns and provided invaluable assistance to many UCSB students seeking career advice.

“Susan’s work in the Alumni Affairs office has been invaluable,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor for Alumni Affairs George Thurlow. “She has been a steady influence for quality and excellence for many, many alumni programs. She is loved and respected throughout the UCSB alumni world.”

Jose Hernandez ’86, NASA Astronaut, was present at the dedication of Alpha: Jose Hernandez Middle School in East San Jose on September 30th.

Viktoria Byczkiewicz, ’87, a Senior Lecturer in the American Language Institute in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California, has edited the book Democracy & Education: Collected Perspectives (2014) for which she also penned an introduction titled “Teaching for a Democratic World.” The book is the first in a series of volumes of collected essays and papers from scholars around the world on the subject of democracy and education. The series is the project of the John Dewey Center for Democracy and Education based at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The ongoing work reflects the critical, reflective, and exploratory effort of thinkers working from a range of disciplinary perspectives to examine the problems and possibilities of achieving universal democracy through education.

Jodie Martin Ellis, ’88, was an intern for Bob Dole in 1989. She has also worked as an aid for Nancy Kassebaum, a former Kansas senator. She now works in San Francisco. She majored in Political Science.

Joe Cooper, ’89, has been named the board chair for the Mental Wellness Center, a Santa Barbara nonprofit providing housing and other services to people with severe mental illnesses. He has provided accounting and financial consulting for companies for more than twenty five years. Joe earned an MBA from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree www.ucsbalum.com

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1990s Stuart and Michelle (formerly Burnett) Sayre, BA ’91, celebrate their 20 year wedding anniversary this year. They met as freshman in the dorms and now live in San Diego with their two daughters, ages 12 and 15.

Tony Vallejo, ’92, has become a member of Goleta City Council. He was appointed to serve until the end of 2016, finishing the term of resigning member Ed Easton.

Tony is a certified public accountant and graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Business Economics.

Nicole Romasanto, ’94, has been named the director of volunteers for Hospice of Santa Barbara. She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. She previously worked at Sanctuary Psychiatric Hospitals and at Family Practice Medical Group. She volunteers at Cottage Hospital and is on the board of directors of the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation.

James Patrick Rudolph, ’97, was accepted as a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department. The Franklin Fellows Program is an executive development vehicle via which the government taps citizens’ knowledge and which enables approved organizations to promote public service by their professionals.

James majored in Political Science.

Arnold Hyun, ’99, has become father to twin boys, Isaiah and Andrew Hyun.

They were born on May 12, 2014 at 5:08 pm and 5:09 pm, respectively. Arnold majored in Political Science.

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2000s Brian Moreno, ’00, was promoted to partner of Richardson Harman Ober PC, a Pasadenabased real estate, business and community association law firm. In 2013, Brian was the 20th California attorney to be elected to the College of Community Association Lawyers. He has also

Alums Make “40 Under 40 Listings” The Pacific Coast Business Times has unveiled its list of “40 Under 40” business and community leaders on the South Coast. They included: Justin Anderson, ’02, is the president of Ameriflex Financial Services in Arroyo Grande. He has taught finance at Santa Barbara City College and is on the board of First Tee Central Coast, which promotes youth development through golf.

Alisa Harnish, ’02, is the Transportation Manager for Direct Relief International in Santa Barbara. She oversees the shipment of medical and relief supplies all over the world for the $380 million DRI. She is a volunteer at Postpartem Education for Parents.

Brent Jacobs, ’01, is senior vice president and portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley in Oxnard. He served as an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army before coming to UC Santa Barbara and earning a degree in business economics.

Arthur Munoz III, ’00, is the senior vice president at Rabobank in Santa Barbara. He received his MBA from Cornell University and has been with Rabobank since 2009.

written a number of legal articles and is an approved instructor for several educational courses.

Brian Schwabecher, ’03, is regional vice president of business banking at Union Bank of Santa Barbara. He has been involved with Leadership Santa Barbara and with his brother started Festivals 4 a Cause which puts on a beer festival that has raised more than $50,000 for area non-profits.

Jacqueline Mora, ’02, Lindsey Leonard Guerrero, ’00, is the executive director of recently became the the Teddy Bear Foundation, which provides support for youth principal of McKinley cancer patients and their families. She earned a master’s degree Elementary School. She in education from National University and holds a multi subject has previously served as teaching credential. the principle of Sanchez College Preparatory School, the principal bachelor’s degree in Economics with an of John Marshall Elementary School, an accounting emphasis from the University of assistant principal, and a teacher. Jaqueline California, Santa Barbara. He is a Certified has a doctorate from USC, a master’s Public Accountant licensed to practice in degree from UCLA, and a master’s and two California. bachelor’s degrees from UC Santa Barbara.

Sergio Villa, ’02 was recently honored in Andrew Kaven, ’02, was promoted to the Pacific Coast Business Times’ annual partner from senior manager. Kaven is a Spirit of Small Business Awards. Sergio is member of Ernst & Young LLP’s Assurance the CEO and founder of Alliance Wealth practice in San Francisco where he primarily Strategies. After graduating from UC serves technology companies in the Santa Barbara with a degree in Spanish, he enterprise software and cloud computing spent years working as a financial adviser space. Kaven has a diverse accounting at Morgan Stanley and later with Santa and auditing background and has worked Barbara Bank & Trust. with start-ups as well as large Fortune 50 companies. He has taken clients from startSierra Loughridge, ’04, recently became ups through their IPOs and beyond. He has the principal of Washington Elementary extensive experience in revenue recognition, School. She is currently serving as child SEC reporting matters, and managing development and afterschool program stock and debt offerings. Kaven holds a coordinator in the Santa Barbara Unified

School District. She has also served as an administrative intern to the principal of Canalino Elementary School, facilitated tutoring sessions at Santa Barbara City College, and served as a teacher.

Sierra has a master’s degree from Cal State Northridge, a master’s from Pace University, and a bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara.

Tony Lochhead, ’04, has been named to the eleven man Major League Soccer “Team of the Week”. Tony is a UC Santa Barbara soccer alum playing for Chivas USA. Andrea Hurd, ’04, has been made an associate attorney for Maho and Prentice LLP. Andrea has been a part of the legal community for nearly ten years. She has interned with the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office and has been a member of the William L. Gordon Inn of Court, Santa Barbara Women Lawyers, and Santa Barbara Barristers. She majored in Communication.

Justin Tooley, ’04, has become the director of finance for Villa San-Juliette Vineyard & Winery. Justin has been the assistant controller for Roll Wine Holding and has managed the daily finance and compliance operations for Paso Robles’ Justin Winery. He graduated from UC

Santa Barbara with a degree in Business Economics.

Patricia Nguyen ‘04, has return to California after 8 years on the East Coast as the new Senior Director of Diversity Programs in Alumni Affairs at UCLA. She has a BS in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Jason and Somer Levine ‘05 & ‘06, were married on June 28, 2013 in Santa Barbara, CA. Somer majored in English and Jason in Physical Geography.

Robert Geraci ‘05, recently published his second book, Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life (Oxford 2014). He was also promoted to full professor at Manhattan College (a Catholic liberal arts college in NYC). Robert earned a PhD in Religious Studies.

Josh Corbelli, ’06, is trying to teach global entrepreneurship with a board game. Josh started out in Santa Barbara with two years at City College before transferring. At UCSB, Josh founded and acted as first president of the English

Club. His experience in Search Engine Optimization and in online marketing has led him to a passion for entrepreneurship.

Along with his partner, Josh has been working to refine and generate interest in the board game since 2011. Since being written up in Forbes magazine, Josh and his partner have been contacted by school districts and game distributors from around the world, interested in a fun, digestible curriculum for international business and entrepreneurship. Find out more on the Know Opportunity website.

Dori Molnar Friesen, ’06, a college admissions and recruitment specialist who has held administrative positions at two educational institutions, has been named student services manager at the Music Academy of the West. Ms. Friesen currently served as a graduate program advisor at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

She previously served as an admissions advisor/outreach coordinator at Santa Barbara Business College. In her new role she will support the Music Academy’s growing international recruitment efforts and help manage its innovative student wellness curriculum.

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Tyler Eck, ’07, has been appointed assistant winemaker at Fess Parker Winery in Los Olivos. After earning his degree in geography at UCSB, he earned a graduate degree in viticulture from Lincoln University in New Zealand. He previously worked in France in the wine making industry in the Rhone Valley. He has also worked in wineries in Tasmania, New Zealand, and Sonoma County.

Marcela Estrada, ’08, Is engaged to be married to college sweetheart, Edgar Serratos ‘07, on October 25th, 2014. She majored in Sociology and Chicano Studies.

Stephanie Timm, ’08, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Singapore in Urban Development & Planning. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential.

Stephanie majored in environmental studies.

2010s Christina Yan, ’12, former Marketing and Donor Relations Coordinator for the UCSB Alumni Association, has accepted a position as Director of Marketing and Guest Experience at Chartwells, San Francisco State University.

Barbara Nwaba, ’12, had a recordsetting victory at the Thorpe Cup, an international track and field competition between the US and Germany. She placed second at the USA Track & Field Championships in the heptathlon in June.

Barbara is also a prospect for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She majored in Sociology.

Matthew Wilson and Erika Bland, ’06 and ’12, were awarded 2014 Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Teaching Fellowships. The grant by KSTF Teaching Fellowship is awarded to early­career science, technology, engineering and/ or mathematics (STEM) teachers. KSTF seeks to improve STEM education by building a stable, sustainable cadre of networked leading teachers, who are trained and supported as leaders from the beginning of their careers. Matthew 28

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majored in Biological Sciences and Literature, and Erika majored in Aquatic Biology with a M.Ed. in Teacher Education.

Daniel Dunietz, ’13, opened his restaurant, Buddha Bowls, located in Isla Vista, in October of last year. Still in his twenties, Daniel has turned a teenage dream into a reality. Daniel recently graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in English.

Javier Castro, has signed with Oklahoma City Energy FC, a soccer team. Javier has played for UC Santa Barbara and the L.A. Missioneros of the Premier Development League. He also has experience playing with the L.A. Galaxy’s Under-20 team and Arsenal FC’s Under-18 Academy team.

IN MEMORIAM David Hengsteler, ’43 , died July 23, 2014. He was 95. David was a champion boxer and wrestler at UC Santa Barbara in the 1940s. In 1941, he was the collegiate heavyweight boxing champion, and in 1942, the collegiate heavyweight wrestling champion. David is a member of UC Santa Barbara’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

After UCSB, David taught and coached at Inglewood High. He later coached for 25 years at El Camino College in Torrance.

Ruth Kallman, ’47, died August 9, 2014 at the age of 89. She was born in Los Angele, and moved to Santa Barbara with her family as a toddler. Ruth has given much to the community; in her youth she volunteered at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and assisted with local USO events during World War II. She also served as president of the Santa Barbara Zoo Auxiliary and on the Zoo’s board of directors. Ruth attended Santa Barbara State College and the Knapp School of Nursing. Survivors include her sister Kelly, and her children Kris, Tina, and Carol.

Robert Ayer, ’51, died May 24, 2014.

He was born in Alameda, California.

Robert served in the US Army during World War II, and he fought on both the

European and Asian-Pacific fronts. He was educated at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara, where he would earn his teaching certificate. Robert had a long career as an educator, spending 30 years as a special education instructor at Goleta Valley Junior High School.

Survivors include his wife Arabia; his children Bonnie, Bob, Bruce, and Brian; his stepchildren Alberto, Cesar, and Maria; and his eleven grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.

Joe Yee, ’52, was a Santa Barbara native, attended Santa Barbara Junior High and then Santa Barbara High School after which he spent a year saving up for college. He graduated from UCSB with a mathematics degree and spent most of his life teaching high school math. At UCSB, Joe was a member of Beta Sigma Tau, a specifically interracial fraternity which closed in 1953, the year after Joe’s graduation. He is survived by his three children, Kathryn, Alan, and David who held a wake for Joe last year. Joe was 82 years old.

James Franklin “Jim” Shook, Jr., ’53, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, after a long battle with cancer at the Serenity House, Santa Barbara, CA on August 24, 2014. Jim is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ruth Shook; his sister, Patricia Wilson; brother-in-law Robert Wilson; as well as children and grandchildren. Born to Frank and Viola Shook October 28, 1929, in Moline, Kansas, Shook graduated from Barstow High School in 1947. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Education from UCSB in 1953. Jim married Ruth Stickney shortly after graduation and went into service in the US Army from 1953-1955.

Jim then started his 30-year career with Santa Barbara Elementary Schools. He was a founding member of Oaks Bible Church and donated his time for many years to the Gideon’s. Jim enjoyed spending time with his family, gardening, and traveling. He is infamous for his vegetable soup. He was 84 years old.

Juanita June Williams, ’59, died August 21, 2014. She and her husband

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Knox moved to Santa Barbara after they married in 1951 for June to complete her Bachelor’s degree at UCSB. Together, June and Knox visited over 50 countries and were founding members of the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation which, in part, led to June being honored as Woman of the Year by the City of Carlsbad. June is survived by her husband and twin daughters, Jodi Williams Wallis and Jeri Williams Colaw.

She was 81 years old.

Peter Westerlind, ’62, died June 12, 2014 in Shoreline, Washington. Peter was born December 9, 1937, in Rockford Illinois. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1962 and continued on to earn his PhD in anthropology in 1978.

Peter met his wife Eva doing fieldwork in Croatia for his dissertation. Together,

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they raised a family in Kirkland, Washington. Survivors include wife Eva, daughters Linnea and Erika, son-in-laws David and Jason, and grandchildren Liam, Evan, Graham, and Annika.

Robert Newcomb, ’67, died July 10, 2014. He was born in Oceanside, California. At 16, he attended the University of Redlands, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth Engvall. Robert interrupted his college education to join the Navy. After two tours, he returned to college, and ultimately earned a PhD in mathematics from UC Santa Barbara.

While at UCSB, he started the men’s volleyball program. In 1969, he accepted a teaching position at UC Irvine, where he was also the driving force in the creation of the men’s volleyball program.

Robert was also the founding director of the UCI Center for Statistical Consulting,

and played a critical role in forming UCI’s department of Statistics in 2002.

Survivors include his wife Betty, and his children, Dale, Jhyl, and Scott.

Katharin Roberts, ’80, died June 18, 2014. She was born September 13, 1957 in Santa Monica, California. Katie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College with a bachelor’s degree in Medieval Studies; she was also honored as Teaching Assistant of the Year while working on her doctorate at UC Santa Barbara. Katie would become a professor at Williams College and later a teacher at Santa Barbara City College. Survivors include her husband Matt, her children Aaron and Claire Ann, and her brother Robert.

Martin Holoien died July 18, 2014.

He was born in Wolf Point, Montana,

the fifth of eight children. Martin earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Washington and in 1970 was awarded his PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of Minnesota. Martin began teaching high school at Hillcrest Lutheran Academy. He taught several years at North Dakota State University. In 1968 he became Director of the Computer Center at Moorhead State University (now MSU), and in 1971 he also became the first chair of the Department of Computer Science. Martin finished his career teaching Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, retiring in 1998. Survivors include his children Renee, Daniel, Cynthia, and Lee. William and Olivia Allaway died June 15 and June 12, 2014, respectively. William was the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP)’s founding director. Olivia was born November 24, 1924 in Patchogue, New York; William was born March 31, 1924 in Illinois. They married in 1952 and moved to Santa Barbara in 1960. William’s work at UCSB led to the development of the largest study abroad program in the world. Survivors include their children, Bill Jr., Ben and Eve. Matthew O’Neill, died August 9, 2014. On a long ride through the central coast, just before sunset one August evening, a pickup truck passed and clipped Matthew on his recliner bicycle. He was in the process of working towards a PhD in special education from the Gevirtz School at UCSB. Matthew was 33 years old.

Patricia McClaran died August 14, 2015. She was born in Washington, D.C. and was a manager for the Books, Inc. chain in San Francisco and Carmel. Patricia was responsible for revamping and directing the Museum Store for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Survivors include siblings, Stephen and Ann, and her children, Paul, Bruce, Jane, and Stephen.

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