UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association | Spring 2008
Singer Jack
Johnson­—
too busy taking
care of the world
to take it over 10
Romantic
Research:
Your brain
on love 6
Season Ender:
Cunningham
retires as UCSB’s
athletics director 15
Economic Forecast:
California will be
hit harder than
the nation 21
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Spring 2008 Vol. 38, No. 4
Contents
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FEATURES
10
6 UC Santa Barbara Researcher Stephanie Ortigue
Studies Your Brain on Love
By Elizabeth Werhane ‘00
10 Alumnus Jack Johnson ‘97 Maintains His
Subdued Style Amidst Stardom
By Matt Kettmann ‘99
15 The Final Winning Score for Gary Cunningham
as He Heads Into Retirement
By John Zant
15
21 UCSB Economic Forecast Says California
Economy to Fare Worse Than Nation’s
DEPARTMENTS
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22
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31
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Editor’s Column: Looking to the Future
Sports Roundup: Coach Mark French to Retire
Around Storke Tower: News & Notes From the Campus
Research Roundup: Human Impact on Oceans
Alumni Authors: From the Kitchen to the Corporation
Milestones: ’50s to the Present
COVER: Surfing Singer Jack Johnson ‘97 Remains Down-to-Earth
While Finding Major Success in the Music World.
Cover photo by Thomas Campbell
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COASTLINES STAFF
George Thurlow ’73, Publisher
Andrea Huebner ’91, Editor
Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director
Kate Yarbrough, Art Director
Thomas Johnson, Editorial Consultant
UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jack Krouskup ’71, San Mateo
President
Robert Jupille ’89, Los Angeles
Vice-President
Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga
Secretary-Treasurer
Jodi L. Anderson ’94, Goleta
James Barber ’67, Walnut Creek
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
Thomas J. Jevens ’87, San Jose
Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto
Alexandra Meshkov ’79, M.A.’83, Palm Desert
Steve Mendell ’63, San Diego
William Pascoe ’67, San Rafael
Carolyn Zelle Perino ’60, M.A.’78, Coronado
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
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President, Associated Students
Gary Greinke
Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation
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Note from the Editor
By Andrea Huebner
Looking to the Future
After two decades working at magazines and daily newspapers, I am excited to join the staff at UC Santa Barbara
Alumni Affairs as the editor of Coastlines. As a 1991 alumna of this great university, it is a thrill to join the Gaucho team at a time of great transformation.
The recently opened Mosher Alumni House is becoming a center of campus
life, with programs for both alumni and students. Alumni Affairs is also creating
connections between students and alumni through the Campus Alumni Program
for Students. And UC Santa Barbara continues its evolution in academics and in
its beautiful campus as proposed in the Long Range Development Plan (page 24).
As Coastlines follows the progress of these efforts, the magazine will undergo
refinement as well. Our first step has been to make the magazine available online
in the Publications section of the Alumni Association’s Web site: www.ucsbalum.
com/publications/coastlines.html. Just click on the cover image to download a
PDF of this latest edition.
While Coastlines continues to highlight the accomplishments of UCSB and its
alumni, such as Jack Johnson (page 10), it will also explain how the university
contributes to the lives of alumni and the citizens of our nation. We want to show
you how UCSB remains involved in your daily lives—from the Economic Forecast
(page 21) to networking opportunities to continuing your education through
Summer Sessions—even if your student years are far behind you. Coastlines
will also showcase opportunities to reconnect—through giving, learning and
reaching out.
One of Coastlines’ most popular sections is Milestones, where alumni offer updates on their professional and personal lives. I’d like to invite all alumni to send
us a note about a new job, professional award, marriage or new child. Information
can be sent using the form on page 36 or by simply e-mailing me. Don’t forget to
include your graduation year!
I’d also welcome suggestions on what you would like to see in Coastlines or
how the magazine can serve you better. Send mail to Coastlines, Mosher
Alumni House, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1120 or e-mail to
andrea.huebner@ia.ucsb.edu.
I look forward to bringing you news on UC Santa Barbara and its alumni and
hope you will keep us up-to-date on your lives.
Andrea Huebner ’91
Coastlines Editor
UC Santa Barbara
We welcome feedback on Coastlines as well as any comments from alumni. As you might
have noticed, we found our Letters to the Editor bag empty for this issue, so please feel free
to write us. Letters can be sent through the mail to Coastlines, Mosher Alumni House, UCSB,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1120 or e-mail to andrea.huebner@ia.ucsb.edu.
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Edwinn Starr asked, “War, what is it good for?” but Stephanie Ortigue has posed a new question: Love, what is it good
for?
Ortigue, head of the 4D Brain Electrodynamics Laboratory, tests how love affects the brain. She conducts her
research under the umbrella of the University of California,
Santa Barbara’s Brain Imaging Center. Although Ortigue’s
studies are ongoing, her testing suggests that love is good
for the brain.
“I try to understand some of the most complicated experiences in our daily life,” Ortigue said. “Love is one of the
most important questions to study.”
The Brain Imaging Center has become a hub for brain
studies with the addition of the 28,000-pound fMRI
machine that arrived on campus in June 2007. An MRI
machine generates images of the brain. The f stands for
functional; you can have someone in the machine complete
a task and see what part of their brain becomes activated.
The fMRI data creates a comprehensive map of where
brain activity happens, showing three-dimensional images
of the brain. Researchers also collect data from the university’s Geodesic EEG system, which provide data on when
activity happens in the brain. Combining the two­—with
the when and the where information—gives researchers a
four-dimensional look at the operation of the brain, making
it easier to see correlations between cause and effect.
To begin her tests, Ortigue had to find people in love.
Volunteers who stated they were in love completed the
Passionate Love Scale questionnaire, a series of questions
created by Elaine Hafield in 1986 to determine whether
someone meets psychology’s definition of love.
The survey asks them to rate statements on a scale of one
through nine, with one meaning “not at all” and nine meaning “definitely.” Examples include “I would rather be with
_____ than anyone else.” And “I have an endless appetite
for affection from _____.”
The Swiss National Foundation initially funded Ortigue’s
research when she was at Dartmouth. She’s now applying
for other sources of funding.
When Ortigue conducted similar studies at Dartmouth
in previous years, she exclusively tested women subjects.
After coming to UC Santa Barbara in October 2006, she
extended it to men. “It was pretty hard to find men in love
on campus,” Ortigue said, but she found that some exist.
Even before enrolling subjects, Ortigue’s test plan went
before the Human Subjects Committee, which conducts an
ethical review.
Kathy Graham, research personnel analyst for the Human Subjects Committee, said the fMRI itself has minimal
physical risk—as did Ortigue’s test overall. “Whether someone is in love or not in love is not going to increase the risk
to the individual,” Graham said.
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By Elizabeth Werhane’00
Brad Kazmerzak photo
…when people were really in love, they were faster to do a task if their
love’s name had been subliminally presented
In her study, subjects in love and not in love were placed
in the fMRI machine. They watched a display area, where
the name of the person they were in love with might be
presented subliminally — so fast that their brain couldn’t
consciously read the name. They were then asked to do a
“lexical decision task.” They would be shown an arrangement of letters quickly, and then they had to determine
whether it was a real word or not.
Ortigue found that when people were really in love,
they were faster to do a task if their love’s name had been
subliminally presented. She may conduct similar tests using subliminal images of the face of the person the subject
loves.
Ortigue expanded her studies to examine whether
loving something had similar effects to loving someone.
In collaboration with Dr. Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli, a
Swiss psychiatrist, she developed a variation of Hatfield’s
questionnaire called the Passion Scale. The Passion Scale
gauges how enamored someone is with a particular hobby
or activity, such as music or surfing.
In tests of loving someone or loving something, the part
of the brain activated by love is in the angular gyrus — a
portion of the brain approximately above the left ear. It’s
an area of the brain associated with self-representation as
well.
With the fMRI machine in the basement of the psychology building, UC Santa Barbara is well equipped to peek
into the mind. The fMRI on campus has a 3-tesla magnet,
Using both a high-powered fMRI
machine and EEG equipment,
Stephanie Ortigue studies love’s
effects on the brain. She views
3D images of her subjects’ minds,
noting the areas that love triggers.
returning higher spatial resolution than most hospital MRI
machines, which typically have a 1.5-tesla magnet. “It gives
you a very nice picture of your brain,” Ortigue said.
The MRI, a Siemens Magnetom Trio, can take a picture
of the brain in as few as four minutes. In tests that ask
subjects to perform a task, someone can be in the fMRI for
up to two hours.
As stewards of this research tool, the Brain Imaging Center, led by Director Scott Grafton, collaborates with other
scientists to learn about the brain.
The Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara teamed up
with Ortigue to study whether love can improve reaction
times. Parkinson’s patients, often characterized by their
decreased motor functionality, stand to benefit from activities that help the brain react faster. In the past six months,
Ortigue tested 12 patients—both on and off medication—
and although testing is not complete, she said she’s seen
promising results.
Ortigue’s not talking much about applications of her
studies yet, although she hints that if there’s a way to recreate the brain activity of someone in love, it might be
possible to reap the benefits of love without being in love.
She’s also not talking on the question of whether she has
a significant other. She doesn’t wear a ring, and she limited
her confession to a coy “I am in love with neuro science.”
What’s next? “I want to see if love can improve creativity,” Ortigue said.
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The Ethics of Looking at Brains
The Human Subjects Committee reviews between 600
and 700 research proposals each year. To date, about 20
have been submitted for projects utilizing the fMRI machine and affiliated with the Brain Imaging Center.
The entire committee reviewed all fMRI-related tests
for the first six months, Research Personnel Analyst for
the Human Subjects Committee Kathy Graham said.
“Since it was new to campus, we decided to default to a
little more careful review.” The committee includes faculty from human subjects research fields and a physician
who is familiar with fMRI technology.
“For all studies, no matter what they are made up of,
the ethics are pretty simple,” Graham said. “Research
has to have more benefit than risk. So no matter how low
the risk, if it has no benefit, it’s not approvable.”
The federal government defines fMRI machines as
minimal risk equipment. Subjects are asked to disclose
if they have any metal in them; if they do, the metal can
create discomfort from the pull of the fMRI’s powerful
magnet. Even tattoos can contain metal and be painful in
an fMRI machine, Graham said.
Graham said the committee considers physical,
mental, social and confidentiality risks. “We do look at
whether something is likely to be upsetting to somebody,” she said, but the important consideration from an
ethics point of view is letting the subject know what is
expected. Then the subject can choose whether or not to
participate. “There’s a fine line between protection and
paternalism.”
The studies on campus look at social science questions, not medical, but a brain image from an fMRI can
reveal anomalies in a subject’s brain. The researchers on
campus can’t diagnose anomalies they find, but they can
call attention to it and recommend further investigation.
Graham loves her job. “It’s not every day that you get to
come to work and decide, ‘but is this right?’” she said.
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Surfing Singer Jack Johnson
Stays Mellow
How UCSB’s Famous Songwriter Keeps His Cool
While Conquering the Pop Charts
By Matt Kettmann ’99
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Thomas Campbell
Jack Johnson passed by possible career tracks in surfing and filmmaking to become a songwriter and singer.
In the early 1990s,
a surfer boy from
the North Shore of Hawaii came to UCSB. He fell in love during his freshman
year, majored in film studies, made his mark as a stellar cinematographer, and
graduated in 1997. The world of popular music hasn’t been the same since.
That, of course, is the short story of Jack Johnson, the tremendously successful singer/songwriter beloved from Sydney to Summerland who some might say currently possesses the prestigious title “World’s
Most Famous Gaucho.” When his fifth album Sleep Through the Static was released this past February, it
topped the best-selling charts for three straight weeks, and remains in the top five today, thanks in part
to being on the covers of both Rolling Stone and Outside magazines. He headlined the Coachella Music
Festival in April—considered pop music’s top ticket—and is continuing his world tour throughout the
summer, including at least one stop here in Santa Barbara. He founded the successful company Brushfire
Records six years ago, has produced everyone’s favorite surf films, and hangs out with the likes of surf god
Kelly Slater, comedian Ben Stiller, and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. He’s happily married to his college sweetheart Kim (’98), has two young boys, and owns nice homes in Montecito, Oahu, and Australia.
Women drool at his handsome looks, girls scream and faint in his presence, and men respect him, if for
no other reason than he rides waves bigger than our houses. And yet despite the fact that Jack Johnson has
all the reasons in the world to have a big head, forget his past, and sit on his laurels while conquering the
planet, he continues to be the kind, humble, and hard-working man he was during his UCSB days. Plus,
he’s using his fame to promote environmental causes everywhere, and that’s something all of us Gauchos
should be proud of.
“Jack was a machine, an extremely hard worker, who never complained,” explained his former film studies classmate Chris Rafferty (’98), who made the short action film Dead End with Johnson during school.
“He maintained a sense of humor, but had no problem getting down to business. He was focused and had
unending endurance. And he was always up for anything. Whatever kind of crazy shot we’d dream up, Jack
would just do it.”
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His former professor Dana Driskel, who teaches the film studies production course, worked extensively with Jack on a short
documentary called Portraits, about people who studied art in
a university setting. “He impressed me with two things,” said
Driskel. “He had a good eye, a good cinematic eye, and he was a
kind guy, and really kind person. He’d be the type of person who
would write you a ‘thank you’ card. It’s modest little stuff, but it’s
the sort of thing that only a person who’s thinking a bit broader
considers. That just seems to be a signature of Jack.”
Another former classmate Colman Nady, who attended UCSB
until 1998, called Johnson “down-to-earth,” explaining, “Most of
the people in the film studies department are pretentious, and
single-minded—they want to get to Hollywood to become Hollywood people. Jack wasn’t like that at all.”
Although his former classmates and professor were vaguely
aware that Johnson was a surfer—they had no clue, however, that
he grew up with the infamous Pipeline break in his North Shore
backyard and could have gone pro—they all realized that he studied cinematography in hopes of one day making surf films. And
that’s what he did after graduation, directing the 1999 release
Thicker than Water, a fresh, beautiful change from the traditional
wave-after-wave flick. Later Johnson surf films would include
September Sessions (2000), Sprout (2004), and A Brokedown
Melody (2006).
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In the meantime,
however, Johnson was honing
his songwriting skills as a guitarist in the Isla Vista jam band Soil.
Although too shy to sing at Del Playa parties, Johnson was quietly
creating his own catalogue of tunes, singing them into a tape
recorder alone in the bedroom of one of his IV surf shacks. As he
traveled the world filming surf breaks, his friends leaked the tapes
out, which were then copied and started making Jack Johnson
fans in surf communities worldwide. He sang one such song
“Rodeo Clowns” with a Philadelphia pop star named G-Love, and
it became a radio hit.
Suddenly, the notion of making his own album seemed like a
good idea, and in 2000, out came Brushfire Fairytales. The collection of mellow songs—simple, infectious rhythms paired with
sweet lyrics and a beachy vibe—instantly became round-thecampfire hits, and the subdued style caught on like, well, a brushfire. The Jack Johnson fairytale was in full swing. (Bonus point
for Gauchos: the song “Bubble Toes” about meeting Kim features
the line “I was eating lunch at the DLG,” as in De la Guerra
Dining Commons.) Throw in some world tours opening for Ben
Harper and a string of evermore successful albums—namely the
more mellow On & On (2003, featuring the song “Horizon’s
Been Defeated,” which refers to Santa Barbara’s offshore oil rigs),
the slightly more uppity In Between Dreams (2005, the year he
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enlisted another former Gaucho, Zach Gill, as his keyboardist), the playful music
for the animated film Curious George (2006, thereby enlisting a whole new
generation of young fans), and this year’s ponderous Sleep Through the Static, not
to mention a slew of fun surf flick soundtracks—and this Gauchos’ skyrocketing
success is unparalleled.
But that’s not to say everything is rosy all the time for Johnson, and his personal pains and worries about the world are reflected more than ever on Sleep
Through the Static. It’s dedicated to Danny Riley, the cousin of Kim Johnson,
who died in 2007 at age 19 during his sophomore year at UCSB. “He was like
a brother to me,” said Jack earlier this year. “A lot of the songs reflect that. Like
anybody who’s had to go through losing someone who’s really dear to them, it’s
a hard process.”
And it’s not just the death of close friends that makes this UCSB grad’s life
challenging—Johnson is finding that keeping mellow and down-to-earth amidst
such stardom can be tough. “As much as this is a really fun job and has all these
aspects that come with it that are positive,” he explained, “it’s a job like everything else. It becomes overwhelming, and there needs to be a lot of balance that
happens so you don’t go too far with it all.”
Part of the way Johnson maintains an even keel is by focusing on the planet’s
environmental balance. His tour buses run on biodiesel; his record company
is part of One Percent for the Planet, which donates profits to green-minded
causes; and he has supported Heal the Ocean, the Surfrider Foundation, and
other nonprofits with his own money. And most popularly, he founded the Kokua
Festival in Hawaii, which brings rock stars together with eco-friendly vendors and
environmental advocates. That formula will be replicated throughout this year’s
world tour, with eco-booths at each venue and free
tickets being given to local nonprofits to help them
raise money and awareness. Explained Johnson,
“We’re trying to kind of shine the light we have on
groups doing a good thing in every town we play
at.”
At the end of the day,
though, Jack Johnson finds his best balance in the
company of friends and family, and keeps a positive outlook on the future of our embattled planet.
“When you have kids,” said Johnson, “you have no
hope but to have hope.”
And for the rest of us, Jack Johnson leaves us
hoping that we find success in doing what we
please. “Jack seems to do what makes him happy,”
explained his former classmate Rafferty. “Whether
that be surfing, making movies, or playing music.
Not seeking fame or fortune, but just reveling in
doing what he enjoys. Following his bliss. Seemingly living in the moment, without worry, without
pretense, without fear. I think we’re all attracted
to that. We all want to be happy. We all want to
do what we enjoy. Jack is just really good at all of
that.”
Jack Johnson’s Discography
“Brushfire Fairytales,” Universal 2001
“On and On,” Brushfire Records 2003
“In Between Dreams,” Brushfire Records 2005
“Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film
Curious George,” Brushfire Records 2006
“Sleep Through the Static,” Brushfire Records 2008
From “Bubble Toes” to “Horizon’s Been Defeated,” Jack Johnson’s music has
been inspired by his UCSB days.
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Scotland
June 8-17, 2008
Discover the very best of Scotland. From
Oban, travel to the Isle of Mull and its 13th
century Duart Castle. Visit the Isle of Skye’s
Armadale Castle to learn about ancient
Gælic life. Enjoy a drive through the Highlands. Admire the charm of the Slate Islands
and journey through the Trossachs to view
the “bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.” Visit
the stately castle in Stirling and the monument to William Wallace. Explore St. Andrews, and the important port city Dundee.
Conclude with an excursion to Edinburgh.
$2895 per person land only, based on double
occupancy. Assistance booking international
air available.
Greece: The Pelopennese
& The Island of Poros
September 29-October 10, 2008
Umbria Hill Towns
September 10-18, 2008
Explore this amazing region from your base of
Spoleto, a charming town where ancient ruins
mix with stunning medieval architecture, and
scenic paths showcase the many highlights.
Admire the impressive Palazzo dei Consoli
in Gubbio; the magnificent basilicas in Assisi,
known as the home of St. Francis; and the
churches in
Montefalco,
renowned
for their
stunning
works of
art. Journey
to Todi, a
town that
according
to legend was founded by Hercules, and enjoy
its unspoiled medieval ambience. Meetings
with locals and enrichment opportunities
provide highlights throughout the trip.
$2,395 per person land cost based on double
occupancy. International air from LAX and
SFO available for $1,719. Other gateways
available.
Argentina and Chile with an
Andean Lakes Crossing
November 3-15, 2008
Post Trip Extension to Iguaçu Falls
November 15-18, 2008
Discover
Greece:
Athens
t h e
ancient
capital,
and the
towns of
the scenic
Peloponnese region. Meander the winding
streets of Patras; make the pilgrimage to Delphi;
explore Mycenae; marvel at the theater in
Epiauros, whose acoustics are still so superb
that a whisper on stage carries all the way to the
top of its perfectly preserved seating. Enjoy the
charm of Poros and Hydra. Finally, discover the
treasures of Athens. Meetings with locals and
enrichment opportunities provide highlights
throughout the trip.
This remarkable
UCSB exclusive
tour to Argentina
and Chile links
two of the
continent’s most
culturally and
geographically
diverse countries via your journey through a
lake crossing in the majestic Andes Mountains.
Explore Santiago. Fly to Puerto Montt, gateway
to Patagonia and the Chilean-Argentinean lake
country. Move on to Buenos Aires, the “Paris of
South America”. As a special feature ­— a day
in the pampas, in gaucho country, at a private
estancia or ranch. Enrichment discussions and
meetings occur throughout the trip.
$2,695 per person based on double occupancy
land cost. International air available $1,429
LAX; $1,479 SFO. Call for other gateway
cities.
$5,995 per person based on double occupancy
land and inter-country air. Assistance with
international air available upon request-approx.
$995 from LAX. Other gateways available.
Walks Through Enchanting New
Mexico
September 28-October 4, 2008
Georgia O’Keefe called it “The Faraway”,
this enchanted land of stark beauty and clear
light. A walk here is akin to stepping into
an O’Keeffe
masterpiece.
On paths
forged by
Indians and
Conquistadors,
pass through
green valleys,
desert canyons,
mountain trails,
and forests of
pine. This magical terrain still inspires and
artists thrive. Intimate, enchanting, the old city
of Santa Fe glows in the desert sunlight against
the blue backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains. Explore history and culture as we
enjoy our walks based in this region.
$2,795 per person land cost based on double
occupancy. Domestic air additional cost;
assistance provided in booking air.
Holiday Markets of Salzburg
and Austria
December 2-10, 2008
Discover the
magic of the
holiday season
with visits
to Austria’s
renowned
h o l i d a y
markets. This
special program
combines an itinerary of planned excursions
and free time in Vienna and Salzburg. Explore
the mazes of wooden booths decorated with
fragrant pine boughs and displaying unique,
handcrafted decorations and gifts. The smell
of warm gluhwein, roasted chestnuts and spicy
gingerbread will fill the air and tickle your
senses. Enjoy the beauty of these cities, their
twinkling charm and historical treasures.
$2,095 per person, land only, based on
double occupancy. Assistance with booking
international air available. LAX and SFO $999.
Other gateways available.
14 request brochures for these trips or to be placed on the mailing list for these and future trips, such as New Mexico,
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To
Greece,
Argentina or other destinations,call the UCSB Alumni Association at (805) 893-4611 or email gaucho.getaways@ia.ucsb.edu.
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Cunningham hangs up
his Gaucho jersey
By John
John Zant
Zant ’68
By
Paul Sherman
Gary Cunningham hugs junior guard Whitney
Warren after the UCSB women’s basketball
team won the 2008 Big West basketball
tournament championship in March.
G
aucho sports fans may have wanted Superman when UCSB hired a
new director of athletics 13 years ago, but instead they got a Clark
Kent kind of guy — Gary Cunningham, a mild-mannered adminis-
trator who had long since replaced his No. 55 UCLA basketball jersey (he
was co-captain of the Bruins’ first Final Four team in 1962) with business
attire.
The UCSB job turned out to be the most prolonged and the last full-time
position of Cunningham’s 29-year career in athletic administration. He announced in January that he will retire at the end of the 2008 school year.
His future agenda includes fly fishing, golf, travel and doting on his two
grandchildren. He and Barbara, his wife of 46 years, will continue to live in
Santa Barbara.
There were some bright flashes of accomplishment in the modest metropolis of Gaucho athletics under Cunningham’s watch, and he recently
looked back at his tenure with a measure of pride.
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e pointed to the six Big West Commissioner’s Cups
that UCSB has earned in the past seven years. The
cup is awarded annually to the school that has the
best overall performance in conference sports. Cunningham may have to make room for another one in June. “With
our successes in winning Big West Conference Championships in
men’s and women’s in basketball and swimming, we are in first
place to win the Big West Conference Commissioner’s Cup,” he
said. In addition to numerous league titles, the Gauchos won the
NCAA men’s soccer crown in 2006 and were runners-up in 2004.
“Another achievement is the coaching staff we’ve been able to
hire at UCSB,” Cunningham continued. “They are multi-dimensional people. They are not only concerned with winning, but also
with the student-athlete having a quality experience, graduating and becoming a successful citizen.” Among the coaches he
hired are Tim Vom Steeg (men’s soccer), Paul Stumpf (women’s
soccer), Bob Williams (men’s basketball), Marty Davis (men’s
tennis), Wolf Wigo (men’s water polo) and Bob Alejo (strength
and conditioning).
“The third area is this building,” Cunningham said. He was
seated in his office on the second floor of the Intercollegiate Athletics Building that was constructed in
2005. Behind his desk was a window overlooking the backstretch of Pauley Track.
“The students believed in us,” he said,
“He was head
“and assessed themselves the money
and shoulders above
to build this beautiful building.” With
43,000 square feet of space, the
the rest,” Yang said.
building houses coaches’
offices, a learning center, weight
“The hallmark of his
room, training room, auditorium
career is a passion
and the Phil Womble Hall of
Champions.
for both athletic
One of the athletic director’s
favorite rituals is a special
excellence and
ceremony for athletes on the eve of
academic values.”
their graduation from the university.
“There’s nothing more gratifying to me
than to see our student athletes graduate,” he
said. “We’ve done it the last two years in our auditorium. They wear their caps and gowns, and I give them
a hood. It’s really neat. I hope we continue that tradition.”
Cunningham has earned a few degrees himself, but he never
refers to himself as “Doctor,” as many officials with non-medical
doctorates are apt to do. His academic background in the University of California system — his Ph.D. is from UCLA’s school of
education — made him the first choice of Chancellor Henry Yang
to oversee UCSB athletics in 1995. Cunningham had spent the
previous nine years at Fresno State.
“He was head and shoulders above the rest,” Yang said. “The
hallmark of his career is a passion for both athletic excellence and
academic values.”
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anis Ingham, the university’s faculty athletic representative,
said her first impression of Cunningham was that “he’s such
a gentleman.” Then one day Ingham saw his competitive
nature. She was sitting beside him during a soccer match at
Harder Stadium. They were in the east stands, opposite the side
where the spectators are conventionally seated.
“There was a man behind us, screaming and yelling for the
visiting team in our ears,” Ingham recalled. “Gary said, ‘Sir, you’re
welcome to sit here, but if you want to cheer you have to go to
the other side where the fans are.’ The man said, ‘This is America.
I can cheer if I want,’ and he started yelling even louder. Gary’s
eyes were blazing and he said, ‘Be quiet if you’re going to sit over
here.’ The man said, ‘Who are you anyway to tell me what to
do?’ Gary stood up to his full height (6 feet, 7 inches) and said,
‘I am the athletics director and I’m telling you, you can’t sit here.
Move.’ You could almost see his heart beating out of his shirt.
I said to myself, this is the competitive athlete that never goes
away . . . the basketball player, the coach. As athletic director, he
was much more elegant. He was patient, patient, patient . . . but
finally, I saw him go: Snap.”
Cunningham is a rare basketball coach who can say he has a
winning record against John Wooden. He was coach of UCLA’s
freshman team that played the varsity on opening night at Pauley
Pavilion in 1965. Led by Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Lucius Allen, the yearlings defeated the No. 1-ranked
varsity 75-60. Cunningham later became Wooden’s assistant, and
for two seasons (1977-78 and ’78-79), he was the second successor to the legendary coach. The Bruins went 50-8 under Cunningham before he retired from coaching and went into athletic
administration.
During almost three decades in the business, Cunningham
served on some of the NCAA’s most important committees, and
in 2005 he was the first recipient of the Division I-AAA Athletic
Directors Association Lifetime Achievement Award, which was
subsequently named after him. “The first NCAA Convention
I went to,” Ingham recalled, “I walked around with Gary, and
everybody said, ‘Young lady, you’re really fortunate to be working
with him.’ ”
Perhaps the highest honor of Cunningham’s life is his continuing friendship with Wooden. After Wooden suffered a broken
wrist and collarbone this year, Cunningham was one of the first
non-family members to visit his 97-year-old mentor.
Other than that relationship, Cunningham downplays his
UCLA ties. “I’ve always rooted for people that pay my check,” he
said. “My loyalty is right here at UCSB. It’s been a great run for
me. My one regret is that I couldn’t do all the things I wanted to
do in terms of facilities, in terms of giving the coaches everything
they need. Our shortcomings are not caused by lack of desire, but
lack of money.
“I think I can walk away and say I did the best I could, and I’m
leaving UCSB better than it was when I came. I look for my successor to take it further.”
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Mark French to Retire from
Women’s Basketball Program
After an immensely successful career, head
coach Mark French will retire from the UC
Santa Barbara women’s
basketball program, he
announced on Thursday.
The winningest coach in
program history, French
steps down after leading
the Gauchos to 13 Big
West Conference titles
and 12 NCAA Tournament appearances
Mark French
during his 21 seasons
in Santa Barbara. He
will stay on as head coach at UCSB until a
replacement is named.
“It has been both an honor and a pleasure to serve as the head women’s basketball coach at UCSB for the past 21 years,”
French said. “The opportunity to be a part
of the lives of our outstanding women has
given my life a richness and deep sense of
satisfaction that I will always cherish. The
time has come, however, for me to step
aside and allow our program to benefit
from the leadership, passion, and energy of
a new head coach.”
After returning to his alma mater before
the start of the 1987-88 season, French
built UC Santa Barbara into one of the
premiere programs on the West Coast. In
his 21 seasons, he compiled an overall record of 438-200 for a winning percentage
of .687. French guided the Gauchos to a
winning record each of the last 18 seasons
and his teams have qualified for postseason play 13 years in a row (10 NCAA, 3
WNIT).
Beginning in 1996-97, UCSB absolutely
dominated the Big West, at one point winning 25 consecutive games in the conference tournament and earning the league’s
automatic bid in the NCAAs nine years in
a row. After advancing to the NCAA Tournament Second Round a total of five times,
French’s Gauchos finished with an overall
record of 27-7 and reached the Sweet 16
for the first time in program history in
2004.
In all, French’s squads have produced
eight All-Americans and a total of 58 AllBig West honorees.
French will step down after guiding the
Gauchos to an overall record of 23-8 this
past season and a return to the Big Dance
for the first time since 2005.
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Swimming
Gauchos Named Big West Champions
UC Santa Barbara men’s and women’s swim teams dominated
the Big West Swimming and Diving competition to capture
top titles. The men’s team won the league title with 856
points. The women’s team was in top form at the meet and
scored 926 points to be named Big West champions. The men
earned their 26th title, third in the past five years (`04, `06),
while the women’s team was crowned conference champion
for the third straight season, 11th overall.
In the men’s events, UCSB came out of the finals with first
through seventh place in the men’s 100 free final and totaled
107 points, with junior Bradley Matsumoto claiming the prize
in 43.89.
Sophomore Matt Bartlett narrowly beat out UC Irvine for
the title in the men’s version of the 200 individual medley
(1:47.88) and took the first of the five places the Gauchos
won in the men’s 200 free.
Other league titles going to Gauchos include senior cocaptain Brooks Felton in the 500 free (4:28.89), junior Jeff
Sudbury in the men’s 100 breast (55.06), and Matsumoto in
the men’s 50 free (19.83).
The men’s relay teams swam their way to league
Women’s Basketball
UCSB Wins 12th Big West
Tournament Title
Senior Jessica Wilson scored a team-high
16 points and led three teammates in
double figures as top-seeded UC Santa
Barbara clinched its 12th Big West Conference Tournament title with a 74-59 victory
over second-seeded UC Davis on March 15
at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The Gauchos improved to 23-7 overall
with their fifth consecutive victory and
won for the 19th time in their last 20
games to earn the league’s automatic berth
into the NCAA Tournament.
Wilson was named the Big West Conference Tournament MVP after hitting
7-of-15 from the field to go with seven rebounds and five assists to lead four UCSB
starters in double figures. The senior guard
also finished with a steal and a block in her
final game in Anaheim.
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championships in the 200 medley relay, 200 free relay, 400
medley relay and the 800 relay.
On the women’s side, sophomore Anne Marie May won
the 50 free for the second year in a row (22.21), as well as
placing first in the 100 free (49.71).
Junior Katy Freeman overtook teammate freshman
Sara Nicponski for first place in the women’s 200 breast.
Freeman’s time of 2:10.89 is a new UCSB record and meet
record. She also swam a meet-best time in the 100 breast
of 1:00.75, and won the 200 individual medley, clocking in
2:01.52.
In the women’s 200 free, sophomore Courtney Bauer took
the league title in 1:49.09 over teammate Liz Wagner who
clocked in at 1:49.83.
Not wanting to be outdone, the women’s relay teams won
the 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, 400 free relay and 400
medley relay.
At the 2008 NCAA Championships, the women Gauchos
earned a total of 36 team points and placed 25th overall. This
marked the first time since 1990 that UCSB has scored points
at the women’s NCAAs.
In the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 23, fourth-seeded Virginia
scored an 86-52 victory over No. 13 UC
Santa Barbara at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. Wilson scored 13 points to
lead the Gauchos in her final game in the
blue and gold.
UCSB, which had won 19 of its last 20
games entering the contest, sees its season
come to a close with an overall mark of
23-8.
Soccer
Rob Friend, Tyler Rosenlund
on Canadian National Roster
Former UC Santa Barbara soccer players
Rob Friend and Tyler Rosenlund were among
the 19 players listed on the Canadian men’s
national team camp roster, as announced
by head coach Dale Mitchell earlier this
month.
The former Gauchos are currently
training in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for quali-
fying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa.
While CONCACAF’s first phase of
2010 World Cup Qualification begins in
February, Canada will wait until the second phase to play their first game on June
15 in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines.
Playing with the Gauchos in 2001 and
2002, Friend became first player in program history to be drafted by an MLS
team when he was selected by the Chicago Fire in the fourth round of the 2003
SuperDraft. The native of Kelowna, B.C.,
currently plays professionally for Borussia
Mönchengladbach in Germany.
Rosenlund was a three-year letter winner at UCSB from 2004-06 and helped the
Gauchos win the program’s first national
championship in his final season. The
Port Coquitlam, B.C., native signed with
the Swedish Club Atvidabergs FF after
foregoing his senior season at UCSB.
CanadaSoccer.com contributed to this
report.
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Women’s Soccer
Edwards Promoted to Associate
Head Coach
Kai Edwards, who joined the UC Santa
Barbara women’s soccer coaching staff
as an assistant coach last spring, has been
promoted to associate head coach, head
coach Paul Stumpf announced this week.
“The promotion is well-deserved for
Kai,” Stumpf commented.
“He works very hard, has great energy,
and is an outstanding coach.”
Edwards, who along with Stumpf was
instrumental in this season’s outstanding
Gaucho recruiting class, is looking forward
to the opportunity.
“I am excited to be part of a program
that is gearing up to make a run at the Big
West title and an NCAA Tournament bid,”
Edwards said.
Edwards came to UCSB from his alma
mater, Sonoma State University, where he
was an assistant coach.
Men’s Soccer
Two Gauchos Drafted in MLS
Supplemental Draft
UC Santa Barbara senior forward Tino
Nunez was drafted by Real Salt Lake and
defender Greg Curry was selected by the
expansion San Jose Earthquakes in the 2008
Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft.
Nunez was taken in the second round with
the 17th overall pick and Curry went in the
third at No. 29.
UCSB’s record-shattering year in terms
of the draft continued as Nunez and Curry
became the fifth and sixth Gauchos to be
drafted by an MLS side in 2008.
They join former teammates Ciaran
O’Brien, Andy Iro, Eric Avila, and Brennan Tennelle in the professional ranks to
complete the largest draft class in program
history.
On Jan. 18 O’Brien and Iro became the
first players to come out of UCSB to go
in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft.
O’Brien was chosen by Colorado with the
fifth overall pick and Iro went to Columbus at No. 6. Avila then went to FC Dallas
in the second round with the 19th overall
selection and Real Salt Lake claimed Tennelle in the third round at No. 37.
Prior to this year’s draft, a total of five
former Gauchos had been selected in the
SuperDraft, with Memo Arzate and David
McGill the only two players to go in the
same year (2004).
Nunez and Curry are the sixth and
seventh players from Santa Barbara to be
chosen in the Supplemental Draft.
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UCSB Economic Forecast Says California Economy
to Fare Worse Than Nation’s
The California economy is headed toward a recession and the state’s economy “will be
worse than that of the United States,” according to the Economic Forecast Project at
UC Santa Barbara.
Speaking at an economic forecast presentation in March, the project’s director, Bill
Watkins, a former research economist at the Federal Reserve in Washington, said
that California has an economy that is much more volatile than the nation’s. Its
current weaknesses include the state’s budget crisis and the reduced availability
of initial-stage venture capital. “These weaknesses, along with a decimated
residential real estate sector, imply that, once again, Californians will suffer
more difficult economic times than will most Americans,” Watkins said.
“Even if the United States manages to avoid a recession, California
likely will not.”
The UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project is a research
unit that provides regional, statewide, and national economic
data, analysis, and forecasts to the public. According to
research by the project’s economists, California will lose
jobs in the coming months, the tech sector will be weak,
and unemployment will climb more rapidly than in
the rest of the nation. In addition, domestic migration out of the state will accelerate and California’s
state budget, already in crisis, will get worse.
“Local governments will see serious fiscal
challenges,” Watkins said.
“Our forecast,” Watkins concluded, “is for a relatively mild California recession, while we expect the
United States to narrowly avoid a recession.”
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BY THE NUMBERS
Philanthropist Establishes Endowed Chair for Social Sciences
UC Santa Barbara applications
for Fall 2008
31
5
7
2
94
23,140
number of high school seniors
offered Fall 2008 admission
55,871
total freshmen and transfer
applications, a record for UCSB
15
percent increase in freshmen
applications over last year
52.7
percent of all applicants who
are members of a racial or
ethnic minority group
92
percent of applicants who are
Californians
31
percent of freshmen applicants
who have a GPA of 4.0 or
higher
3.71
average GPA of all freshmen
applicants
49.4
percent of UC freshmen
applicants who included UCSB
as one of their campus choices
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UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from Sara Miller McCune and SAGE
Publications Inc., the company she founded, to establish an endowed chair for the dean
of social sciences in the College of Letters and Science.
The recent gift from McCune, the publisher at SAGE, will support the teaching,
research, and special activities of Melvin Oliver, a distinguished UCSB professor of sociology and dean of the social sciences. In honor of the gift, the leadership position will be
known as the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences.
McCune is a longtime campus benefactor and a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation. SAGE Publications, with its headquarters in Thousand Oaks, is a leading global
and commercial academic publisher.
“Dean Oliver adds so much value to our community that we consider it a privilege to
support UCSB in establishing this named chair,” said McCune.
UCSB to Help Set Sustainability Standards for College
UC Santa Barbara is among a group of educational institutions in the U.S. and Canada
selected to participate in a new initiative to develop standards for measuring progress
toward sustainability on college and university campuses.
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) is a collaborative
pilot program recently launched by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), of which UCSB is a member. Program participants
include public and private colleges, community colleges, and research universities.
The STARS system will be similar to the Leadership in Energy Environmental Design
(LEED) green building rating system. STARS, however, will be applied to an entire campus rather than to a single building or set of buildings and will evaluate social responsibility as well as environmental stewardship. The new STARS rating system will be available
early next year.
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Go Back to School With UCSB Summer Session
Summer Session offers students from other universities, high school students
and Central Coast residents the opportunity to work on college degrees during
the summer.
Courses are offered in two six-week sessions: from June 23 to Aug. 1, and
from Aug. 4 to Sept. 12.
On-campus courses cost $162 per unit, plus a campus-based fee, with nonUniversity of California students paying a $140 application fee. Off-campus
courses cost $108 per unit, with non-UC students paying a $140 application
fee. For Summer Session courses, UC undergraduate students pay for the first
8 units and get all other units free.
For registration information and a list of classes offered at the off-campus
sites, visit the UCSB Summer Sessions Web site at www.summer.ucsb.edu.
Another option for pre-college students is the Research Mentorship
Program, which involves students in cutting edge research with UCSB faculty
members and advanced graduate students. The program tuition costs $3,000
with additional costs if a residential option is selected. For more information,
visit www.summer.ucsb.edu/precollegeprograms.html.
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UT’s Yudof Chosen to Head up UC System
The University of California Board of Regents has voted
unanimously to appoint Mark G. Yudof to succeed Robert
C. Dynes as president of the University of California.
Yudof’s appointment will become effective this summer,
with the exact date to be determined. Dynes announced
last August his intention to step down by June 2008 after
nearly five years in the position.
“I am deeply honored by this appointment,” said Yudof.
“The University of California stands as a model for the
world, creating tomorrow’s leaders and innovators and
helping to solve many of society’s most pressing problems.
I can think of no greater personal privilege than to have
the opportunity to lead this remarkable institution.”
Yudof, 63, has served as chancellor of the University of
Texas system since 2002. He heads one of the largest university systems in the country
with 15 campuses, 194,000 students, and an annual operating budget of $10.7 billion.
Yudof emphasized the importance of accountability mechanisms at the systemwide
and campus levels to demonstrate the return on the public’s investment in the university. Likewise, he said he will place a priority on communicating with Californians and
building greater understanding of how the university contributes to their daily lives.
“The University of California is important to every family in California,” Yudof said.
“We must earn the confidence of the people of California every day, and part of that
effort involves demonstrating how our work is solving problems that are important in
their lives—in health, in the environment, in agriculture and nutrition, and in countless
other areas.”
In addition to serving as president, Yudof will hold a faculty appointment in the
School of Law at UC Berkeley.
Yudof, a native of Philadelphia, earned a bachelor’s degree and an LL.B. degree from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Alumnus Creates $500,000 Endowed Fellowship Fund in
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from alumnus M. Ross Johnson and
his wife, Charlotte, to establish an endowed fellowship fund to recruit and support
outstanding graduate students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Johnson, who earned a doctorate in organic chemistry from UCSB, is an internationally recognized medicinal chemist and pharmaceutical and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is co-founder and president of Parion Services, a pharmaceutical company in
North Carolina.
The Johnsons established the graduate fellowship to honor his doctoral advisor,
UCSB Professor Emeritus Bruce Rickborn. Rickborn is a renowned organic chemist.
During his 39-year career at UCSB, more than 30 graduate students obtained doctoral
degrees under his direction.
“Professor Rickborn played a great role in my success and the success of many other
UCSB students as well,” said Ross Johnson. “We could think of no better way to honor
him than to establish a fellowship in his name that would attract future generations of
top students to UCSB.”
Spring 2008
UCSB Alumni Can Now
Get LinkedIn
UCSB alumni can now network with
each other on the professional networking site LinkedIn.
An online network of more than 20
million professionals, LinkedIn offers free
personal accounts with networking and
introduction features.
To sign on to the site, log on to
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/55812/
60015D5F7092 and follow the instructions to create a LinkedIn profile if you
do not already have one. Once you put in
a request to join, you will be approved by
the group manager as quickly as possible.
About 500 people have already joined
the UCSB Alumni Association group.
For more information, contact Susan
Goodale, Alumni programs director, at
(805) 893-4611 or at susan.goodale@
ia.ucsb.edu.
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UC Santa Barbara Releases Draft Long Range Development Plan
The draft Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) that will help UC
Santa Barbara plan its future to the year 2025 has been released and is
available for public review.
The UCSB Vision2025 LRDP identifies facilities and services
needed to accommodate a proposed 1 percent annual student
population growth rate projected to 2025. The updated LRDP will be a
companion document to the campus’s Strategic Academic Plan,
providing the physical plan needed to implement the Academic Plan.
SPEAK UP
You can share your opinion on the plan by sending e-mail to info@
UCSBVision2025.com, or mailing comments to University of California, Office
of Planning & Design, c/o Vision 2025, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1030.
The deadline for comments is 5 p.m. June 23.
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How to find out about the LRDP:
• Log onto www.UCSBVision2025.com for the plan,
environmental impact reports and the Vision2025 project.
• Watch “Community Connection on the Road,” which offers viewers
a video summary of the plan hosted by David Edelman in conversation with Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas and Associate Vice
Chancellor Marc Fisher, on Cox Cable or streamed on the
Vision2025 Web site.
• Request DVD copies of “Community Connection on the Road”
through the Web site.
• Read printed copies of the documents at Santa Barbara libraries.
The LRDP and EIR will proceed later this year to the UC Board of
Regents and the California Coastal Commission for review and approval.
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Faculty Awards
David Awschalom, a professor
of physics and of electrical and
computer engineering, has been
named Faculty Research Lecturer
for 2008. Awschalom is director
of the Center for Spintronics and
Quantum Computation and
associate director of the California
Nanosystems Institute, a collaborative endeavor between UC Santa
Barbara and UCLA.
Paolo Cascini, an assistant
professor of mathematics, has
won a prestigious Sloan Research
Fellowship from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation for his research
in algebraic geometry.
Miguel Eckstein, a professor of
psychology who is affiliated with
the Vision and Image Understanding Laboratory, has been named
one of two winners of the National
Academy of Science’s $50,000
Troland Research Award.
Joel Feigin, a professor of music,
has received a $10,000 commission from the prestigious Fromm
Music Foundation to compose a
concerto for piano and chamber
orchestra for
Israeli-American pianist Yael
Weiss.
Michael Gazzaniga, professor
of psychology at
UC Santa Barbara and direcMichael Gazzaniga
tor of UCSB’s
Sage Center for the Study of the
Mind, is the recipient of a 2008
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American
Psychological Association (APA).
Gazzaniga has also been invited
to present the prestigious Gifford
Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.
Daniel Hone, professor emeritus
of physics and director of
outreach and education for the
Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics, has been named UCSB’s
Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professor for 2007-08. The honor comes
with a $10,000 grant to support
the awardee’s research-related
activities.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, assistant
professor in the Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry, has
won UC Santa Barbara’s 2007-08
Harold J. Plous Award, given
annually by UCSB’s Academic
Senate, on behalf of the faculty,
to an assistant professor from the
humanities, social sciences, or
natural sciences, who has shown
exceptional achievement in research, teaching, and service to the
university.
Matthew Tirrell, dean of the
College of Engineering, recently
received the William H. Walker
Award for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering
literature.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
will recognize Chancellor Henry
T. Yang in April for his pioneering aerospace research. Yang, who
is also a professor of mechanical
engineering, has been selected
to receive the AIAA Structures,
Structural Dynamics, and Materials Award for 2008.
Bren School Dean to Retire Next Year
Ernst von Weizsäcker, dean of the Donald Bren School of Environmental
Science and Management, has announced his plans to retire next year.
A search committee has been formed to fill his spot, according to
Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Council Nominations Co-Chair Eve Rothfarb.
Dean von Weizsäcker said he had planned to head up the Bren School for
about three years, but that he may extend his time as dean if necessary.
Dean von Weizsäcker, who joined the Bren School in January 2006, had
previously been policy director of the United Nations Centre for Science
and Technology for Development.
Spring 2008
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Library
CDL
Access
for Alumni Association Members
In coordination with UCSB’s Davidson Library, we are pleased to announce a new Library benefit for
Alumni Association members. UC’s California Digital Library is offering access to the ProQuest Research
Library. ProQuest is an electronic data service featuring thousands of online journals and magazines covering a wide array of subjects.
What is included?
ProQuest Research Library is a searchable collection of more than 2,000 full-text online journals and
magazines. Most provide coverage beginning 1992
(or 1995 at the latest) with access to full-text or text
and graphics of covered articles.
In order to ensure that the ProQuest Research Library
is offered as an exclusive benefit to Alumni Association members, every person who uses the database
must obtain an access code.
Are there limits or conditions?
Our contract stipulates that the purpose of access to
the service is only for personal use and that users
will not unduly exploit the resource by using it for
commercial purposes or systematically downloading
portions of the file. Therefore we will be requiring all
users indicate agreement to these terms before an
access code can be provided.
How do I get
an access code?
Previous to obtaining your access
code, each member of the Alumni
Association must download the personal use agreement and email the
form to our Membership Coordinator
at pamala.blane@ia.ucsb.edu. The
agreement is available here: http://
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library.html
Your response email will act as
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these exclusive journals. If you are not yet a
member, you may join the Alumni Association
and receive all the membership benefits,
including access to the Alumni Digital Library.
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Library Wins National
Award for ‘UCSB Reads’
The UC Santa Barbara Library
has received a prestigious
national award from the
American Library Association
(ALA) recognizing outstanding
achievement in library public
relations for “UCSB Reads for
Earth Day,” a 2007 community-wide effort to
raise awareness about global environmental issues.
The award includes a cash prize of $5,000.
The “UCSB Reads for Earth Day” program was praised by the
ALA for “reflecting the values of the Santa Barbara community,
home of the original Earth Day, and for leading a campus-wide
initiative to read, discuss, and even recycle (for other readers) the
book, ‘Field Notes from a Catastrophe.’”
Held in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Public Library,
Patagonia, and many campus partners, the program reached a
wide range of community members beyond the university, from
high school students to Patagonia employees to users of recordings for the blind and dyslexic.
UC Santa Barbara Awarded $2 Million for
Alzheimer’s Research
The University of California, Santa Barbara has been awarded
nearly $2 million from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation for innovative research in Alzheimer’s disease. The grant will support
research on the neurofibrillary tangles that, in addition to amyloid
plaque, are a hallmark of the disease.
The research effort will be led by Kenneth Kosik, co-director of
UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute and Harriman Professor
of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He will head
the Larry L. Hillblom Center for Neurodegeneration Research at
UC Santa Barbara, which will exist for the duration of the fouryear, $1,970,291 project.
Kosik has spent most of his career studying the neurofibrillary
tangles of Alzheimer’s disease. His research group at Harvard
University, where he was previously a faculty member, was one
of the first to discover that “tau” is the protein involved in the
tangles. Recent discoveries in his lab at UCSB helped to attract
the foundation’s attention.
Spring 2008
Faculty Publications
Anthony Barbieri-Low, assistant professor of history, examines
in detail the lives and social histories of the men and women
behind the monuments of early China in his critically praised
“Artisans in Early Imperial China” (University of Washington
Press, 2007). Benjamin Jerry Coheno, professor of political
science, has published a comprehensive account of an academic
discipline rooted in political science and economics with “International Political Economy: An Intellectual History” (Princeton
University Press, 2008). Francis M. Dunn, professor of classics, weaves a multi-layered understanding of ancient Athenian
culture and technology to explain a critical transition in the
Greek concept of time in his book “Present Shock in Late FifthCentury Greece” Sabine Fruhstuck, professor of East Asian
languages and cultural studies, examines Japan’s nontraditional
military in her study “Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and
Popular Culture in the Japanese Army” (University of California
Press, 2007). Yunte Huang, professor of English, probes the
multiple contributions of Pacific Ocean nations’ literature to
American literary history in “Transpacific Imaginations: History,
Literature, Counterpoetics” (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Roger J. Ingham, professor of speech and hearing sciences, has
surveyed the multiple influences of brain imaging technologies
on his discipline in a book titled “Neuro-imaging in Communication Sciences and Disorders” (Plural Press, 2007). Carol Lansing, professor of history, examines a 13th century sea change
in Italian public expression of emotion in “Passion and Order:
Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes” (Cornell
University Press, 2007). Rose McDermott, a professor of political science, examines the ways in which processes related to
aging, physical and psychological illness, and addiction influence
U.S. presidents’ decision making in “Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making” (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
In Memoriam
Robert W. Reynolds, professor emeritus of psychology, died at
his Goleta home on Jan. 28, 2008. The Buffalo, NY, native was
80. He specialized in teaching about brain function and behavior during the 34 years that preceded his retirement in 1990.
He is survived by two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
Donald R. Atkinson, professor emeritus of counseling psychology with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, succumbed
to pancreatic cancer on Jan. 11, 2008, at his home in Santa
Barbara. The native of Union City, Ind., was 67. A pioneer in
multicultural counseling, he wrote three books and more than
100 journal articles. He retired from UCSB in 2002 after 30
years of teaching. He is survived by Carol, his wife of 17 years, a
son, two granddaughters, and many nephews and nieces.
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research
100 California High Schools
Account for High Number of
Dropouts, Study Says
Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map
of Total Human Effects on Oceans
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily affected by human activities,
and few if any areas remain untouched, according to the first global-scale study of
human influence on marine ecosystems. By overlaying maps of 17 different activities such as fishing, climate change, and pollution, the researchers have produced a
composite map of the toll that humans have exacted on the seas.
The work, published in the Feb. 15 issue of Science and presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Boston,
Mass., was conducted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
(NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara. It involved 19 scientists from a broad range of universities, NGOs, and government agencies.
The study synthesized global data on human impacts to marine ecosystems such
as coral reefs, seagrass beds, continental shelves, and the deep ocean. Past studies
have focused largely on single activities or single ecosystems in isolation, and rarely
at the global scale. In this study the scientists were able to look at the summed
influence of human activities across the entire ocean.
“This project allows us to finally start to see the big picture of how humans
are affecting the oceans,” said lead author Ben Halpern, assistant research scientist at NCEAS. “Our results show that when these and other individual impacts
are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people
expected. It was certainly a surprise to me.”
The study reports that the most heavily affected waters in the world include
large areas of the North Sea, the South and East China Seas, the Caribbean Sea,
the East Coast of North America, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian
Gulf, the Bering Sea, and several regions in the western Pacific. The least affected
areas are largely near the poles.
Importantly, human influence on the ocean varies dramatically across various
ecosystems. The most heavily affected areas include coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves, rocky reefs and shelves, and seamounts. The least impacted ecosystems are
soft-bottom areas and open-ocean surface waters.
— Public Affairs
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The California Dropout Research Project,
based at UC Santa Barbara and directed
by education professor Russell W. Rumberger, has issued a new report analyzing
data on high school dropout rates. The
study indicates that a relatively small
group of California schools account for a
significant number of high school dropouts. Based on data from the California
Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS),
the study conducted by the California
Dropout Research Project (CDRP) shows
that just 100 high schools — out of 2,462
high schools in California — account
for more than 40 percent of the state’s
dropouts.
“While the dropout crisis is systemic,
this latest research tells us that we don’t
need to fix every school to begin addressing the dropout crisis,” Rumberger
said. “We need to focus our energy and
resources on finding solutions to improve
the schools and school districts with the
highest number of dropouts.”
Highlights from the report (www.lmri.
ucsb.edu/dropouts/) include:
• There are 25 California high schools
— 1 percent of high schools — that
account for 21 percent of the state’s
dropouts
• The average individual school dropout rate in California is 3.5 percent. More
than half of California high schools have
dropout percentages less than or equal to
the state average.
• There are 73 high schools that have
dropout rates greater than 50 percent.
• A total of 662 schools (27 percent)
report zero dropouts.
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U.S. Experiment Retakes the Lead in Race To Find Dark Matter
Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment have announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide
race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted a half-mile underground in a mine in
Soudan, Minn., again sets the world’s best constraints on the properties of dark matter candidates. Teams searching for dark matter have quadrupled in the past few years and now number 20. UC Santa Barbara is among 16 institutions involved in the CDMS
experiment. UCSB emeritus professor David Caldwell, a physicist, was one of the originators of the experiment.
Small Sea Creatures May Be the ‘Canaries in
the Coal Mine’ of Climate Change
As oceans warm and become more
acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food
webs are at risk.
Gretchen Hofmann, associate
professor of biology at UC Santa
Barbara, has just returned from
a research mission to Antarctica
where she collected pteropods, tiny
marine snails the size of a lentil,
that she refers to as the “potato
chip” of the oceans because they
are eaten widely by so many species. The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs
funded the expedition.
Pteropods are eaten by fish that are in turn consumed by other
animals, such as penguins. As these small creatures are stressed by
an increasingly acidic ocean, due to the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, they are less able to cope with a warmer
ocean.
“They are harbingers of change. It’s possible by 2050 they may
not be able to make a shell anymore,” Hofmann said. “If we lose
these organisms, the impact on the food chain will be catastrophic.”
Spring 2008
Collaborative Ways to
Manage Fisheries Emerging
in Southern California
An innovative collaboration has developed
between local trap fishermen and scientists at
the Bren School of Environmental
Science and Management at UC Santa
Barbara. The partnership, called CALobster,
tries to involve fishermen in fisheries research
and management, ensuring the
sustainability of lobster
populations, and maintaining
working harbors.
Currently the
California spiny lobster is
being scrutinized
as Californians evaluate the first five years
of marine reserves
in the Channel
Islands area.
A series of
short-term
studies have
been conducted,
including an
assessment of a
recent and controversial management decision to
establish no-take
fishing reserves at the
Channel Islands.
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The Frittata Affair
The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports
Judy Cook Pochini ‘53
AuthorHouse
by Randy R Grant, John Leadley and Zenon Zygmont, ‘81
World Scientific Publishing Co.
A love affair developed into a marriage that blossomed into a shared passion for cooking. Judy
Pochini shares more than 20 memoir-style anecdotes
about her chef husband Bob and his family along
with descriptions of their Northern Italian Genovese
cuisine. As professional chefs and home cooks, the
Pochinis developed a cuisine that includes classic
Genoan dishes yet blends in the flair of California’s
ingredients and cutting-edge styling. The family
continues to serve it today at Pochini’s Restaurant in
San Francisco and in their family kitchens. The book
includes 200 companion recipes suited for beginning as well as advanced home cooks. There are also
18 suggested menus as well as a kitchen equipment
checklist and tips on where to find ingredients.
Big Ideas to Big Results
Michael T. Kanazawa ‘86
FT Press
Why do most corporations fail to achieve breakthrough performance? They make things too complex. They clutter it with jargon and confusion. They
dither on the launch pad. They hire too many consultants. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. In
this book, Michael T. Kanazawa and Robert H. Miles
introduce a simple, practical approach: the Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) methodology.
Drawing on their experience working with hundreds
of senior executives, they demonstrate how to align
your organization behind just a few core initiatives
and find success.
Spring 2008
This sports economics textbook is specially
designed to teach undergraduate students about
the college sports industry. The book focuses on
the unique cartel structure of the NCAA and its
member institutions to shed light on the labor
market for college athletes and coaches; the tension between athletics and academics; the finance
of athletic departments; the role of the media and
commercialization of college sports; race, gender,
and legal issues; and the desirability and plausibility of reform.
Pepper in Her Pocket: The Stove & Stories of a
Country Grandmother
RaeAnn Proost ‘65
Booklocker.com
Mary Ann Ivie was a plucky little lady born in the
wilds of Idaho in 1878. She had seven children
to rear, food to put by, dinner to cook, and tales
to tell. Stroll with Mary Ann through her garden
and learn how her faith in God and strength of
family scaffolded her through trials in life and
assured the survival of six generations. Mary Ann
had one strong-willed daughter and one naughtytongued granddaughter. She took to carrying a bit
of pepper in one of her apron pockets to catch the
nasty tongues and sass that erupted from those
two. Quick as a blink, she would catch the little
girls before they could run. Heirloom recipes of
English, Swedish, German, and Basque origins and
accompany each story. This book is the second of a
three-part series. The first book, “Sorry Little Supper,” was published in 2005 and the third book,
“Cupcakes on the Counter,” will be published in
2009.
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1950s
Kathryn McKee, ’59, has
joined the board of directors of the American Red
Cross, Santa Barbara County
Chapter. McKee is president and principal
consultant of Human Resources Consortia.
McKee currently serves as a Trustee of the
UCSB Foundation; director on the boards
of Old Spanish Days, Santa Barbara Human
Resources Association and the UCSB Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute.
1960s
Edward J. Hanzlik, ’68, has been elected
a Distinguished Member of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers in honor of his contributions to the Society and the petroleum
industry, having served on Society committees and published technical papers in each
of four decades. He previously served the
Society as a Distinguished Lecturer, which
included giving the first distinguished lecture
in Kazakhstan. His career has led him to visit
more than 25 countries. David Moss, ’68, will
retire from public education in June after a
40-year career. He is Superintendent of Fortuna Union High School District (Humboldt
County) and taught government, history
and economics. He also coached track for
23 of those years.
1970s
Chris Jochim, ’70, has been appointed
resident director of the California State
University International Programs Center
at Beijing University in China. He will
begin his appointment in August. Jochim,
who received his doctorate in Religion and
East Asian Studies from USC in 1980, is
the chair and a professor of the Humanities
department at San Jose State University.
Kati Haycock, ‘71, has joined the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Commission,
which will hold a two-year investigation
on how factors such as education, environment, housing and transportation shape and
affect Americans’ health choices. Haycock
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is the president of The Education Trust, a
Washington,D.C.-based organization that
provides hands-on assistance to urban
school districts and universities to improve
student achievement. Steven A. McAdam,
’72, retired after a 30-year career at the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, which managed the
environmental and economic resources of
San Francisco Bay. He was deputy director at
the time of his retirement. He plans to serve
on the boards of director for nonprofit agencies and continue as head coach of the men’s
and women’s volleyball teams at Alameda
High School, where his two children attend.
Larry A Calderon, ’72, has become the vice
president of Community and Government
Affairs at Nova Southeastern University in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He previously served
as president of Fort Lauderdale’s Broward
Community College for four years after leaving the presidency of Ventura Community
College in California in 2003. Dorian (Elder)
Kuper, ’78, has been
elected president of
the Association of
Environmental and
Engineering Geologists. She lives in
Oregon and is the
president of Kuper
Consulting, an engineering geology
firm specializing in
Dorian Kuper
mining.
1980s
Brent Auernheimer, ’80, MS ’82, Ph.D. ’87,
received the 2008 President’s Award of
Excellence at California State University,
Fresno, where he is director of the digital
campus program and a computer science
professor. The award, which includes
$10,000, recognizes a faculty or staff member who demonstrates integrity, leadership
and a commitment to the university and
community as exemplified by CSU Fresno
President John Welty, according to the university. Timothy Johns, ’80, has been named
president, director and chief executive
officer of Bishop Museum, Hawaii’s State
Former
Swim Team
Member
Wins
‘Amazing
Race’
UCSB alumnus and former swim team
captain T.K. Erwin and his girlfriend
captured the big prize of $1 million on
“The Amazing Race” in January.
“The Amazing Race” is a CBS show that
tracks duos in relationships as they
compete around the world.
During the show’s 12th season, the teams
traveled almost 30,000 miles and trekked
over four continents in an attempt to win
the competition. Erwin and his girlfriend
Rachel Rosales crossed the finish line in
Anchorage, Alaska, to claim the $1
million prize.
During Erwin’s time at UCSB, he served
as the Gaucho men’s swim team captain
for the 2005-06 season and set a school
record in the 200 meter backstroke during
his junior year with a time of 1:47.14,
which was later broken by teammate Chris
Good.
Rosales owns a floral business, and she
and Erwin both reside in Huntington
Beach, Calif.
The finale featured the last three teams
racing from Taiwan to Alaska, attempting to complete such tasks as climbing
a glacier and deciphering a puzzle that
required participants to remember earlier
moments in the contest.
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Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
Johns previously served as chief operating
officer for the Estate of Samuel Mills Damon and chairperson of the Hawaii State
Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Suzanne B. Rudy, ’80, has been elected to the
board of directors of both FNB United Corp.
and CommunityONE Bank. Rudy is vice
president, corporate treasurer, compliance
office and assistant secretary for RF Micro
Devices, Inc., a supplier of radio systems and
solutions for the wireless communications
industry. Peter Deragon, ’81, has merged
his search firm, Deragon Executive Search
LLC, with Stanton Chase International.
Deragon Executive Search LLC was founded
in 1994 and is based in San Luis Obispo,
Calif. Deragon will partner with the Los
Angeles and San Francisco offices of Stanton Chase, focusing on the expanse of its
financial services practice. Deragon’s work
targeted executive placement in sectors that
include private wealth management, securities research, asset management, and private
and investment banking. David Prichard,
’81, has been elected to the United Way of
Santa Barbara’s board of directors. He serves
as chairman of the Leadership Giving Committee at the United Way. Prichard is a senior
vice president, private client advisor and
market president for the Bank of America,
Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Richard
Nanula, ’82, has joined Colony Capital as a
principal, taking on a senior role in all firm
activities worldwide. He will be based in Los
Angeles. Nanula previously served as executive vice president and chief financial officer
of Amgen, Inc., where he made a number of
significant acquisitions and raised substantial
capital. Nancy Weiss, ’82, is the new director
of nutrition services for the Santa Barbara
School Districts. She will be responsible for
managing elementary and secondary school
cafeterias and food service employees for the
districts. She had spent several months as
interim director of nutrition services. Col.
Ken Chance, ’85, will serve as the U.S. Army
Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
beginning this summer when he and wife
Coleen Chance, ’85, move to Russia. Juan
Necochea, Ph.D.’87, has been awarded the
Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor
Spring 2008
Award,the highest
honor that CSU San
Marcos bestows upon
its professors. He is
also co-director for
the Center for the
Study of Border Pedagogy.
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UCSB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING
This year’s meeting will be held at the UCSB Faculty Club
Saturday, June 7, 2008, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Agenda
1. Minutes of the June 2, 2007, meeting
2. President’s report
3. Executive Director’s report
4. Election of directors
5. Old business/new business
6. Adjournment
C. Vincent LeonGuerrero, ’90, has
been elected partner
in the law firm Blank
The Board of Directors has nominated the following
Rome. Leon-Guerslate of candidates to serve as directors of the Association:
rero will be a member
of the real estate
John Keever, ’67, 3 year term
group in the firm’s
Arcelia Arce, ’98, 3 year term
Washington, D.C.,
office. He represents
In addition, the board has nominated the following current
institutional invesdirectors to serve an additional term:
tors, REITs, local and
Jodi Anderson, ’94
national developers,
KC Bishop, ’69
and corporations in
Jack Krouskup, ’71
connection with real
Ron Rubenstein, ’66
estate dealings. Cliff
Melnick, ’94, has been
All members of the UCSB Alumni Association are welcome
named a partner in
to attend.
the law firm Meserve,
Mumper & Hughes in
This is the only notice of the 2008 annual meeting that
Los Angeles. His law
will be published.
practice focuses on
Ron Rubenstein ’66
trusts and estates. BrySecretary-Treasurer
an Cook, Ph.D. ’97,
UCSB Alumni Association
last year’s recipient
of the early career research award from the
Division for Research,
Bay Tributary Teams and a gold Chesapeake
Council for Exceptional Children, has been
Bay Partner Community Award from the
promoted to full professor by the University
Chesapeake Bay Program. She works for the
of Hawaii. Lesley Rex, Ph.D. ’97, professor
Frederick County government in Maryland,
at the University of Michigan, won The
coordinating Clean Water Act compliance for
D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished
the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities.This
and. She also writes a blog about global
award was created to recognize scholars who
warming at http:// local-warming.blogspot.
have provided students with the quality of
com/, Anne Bingham, ’99, has become Intel
intellectual support that only remarkable
Corp. ’s Campus Recruiting Manager, which
learning, coupled with boundless generosinvolves recruiting job candidates at colleges
ity of spirit, can bestow. Shannon Moore,
and universities. She previously worked in
MESM ’98, recently received a Governor’s
Intel Finance for three years. Jill Gravender,
Citation for work with the Chesapeake
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As Professor Mellichamp says, “We received a major tax
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Showcasing UC’s Public Service
MESM ’99, has left her position as Director
of UC Water Programs for the Los Angeles–based Environment Now Foundation
to become National and Operations Officer
at the L.A.–based California Climate Action Registry. John L. Johnson, Ph.D. ’99,
interim associate dean of Winston-Salem
State University’s School of Health Sciences,
published “Every Night and Every Morn”
(Tristan Press 2007), a book that reports
on the accomplishments of Congressional
Medal of Honor winners of color.
2000s
After seven years as manager of the Prezelin
lab at UCSB, Steve McKagan, MESM ’00,
has begun a new position as a fisheries biologist for the Division of Fish and Wildlife
on the island of Saipan, in the Northern
Mariana Islands. Andrew Breibart, MESM
’01, had his article “The WEPP Road Batch
Model: A Tool for Reducing Erosion from
Trails” published in the July 2007 issue of
STREAM NOTES, a publication of the
Stream Systems Technology Center at the
Rocky Mountain Research Center in Colorado. Breibart was a hydrologist on the Lake
Tahoe Basin Management Unit when this
study was conducted and currently holds the
same position at the USDA Forest Service
in Northern California. WEPP stands for
“Water Erosion Prediction Project,” and his
article addressed techniques for reducing
On March 4, UC Santa Barbara was ably represented at UC Day in Sacramento by, from left, Tyson Eckerle, Bob Gregory, ’50, Rocio Torres,’05, state Sen.
Abel Maldonado, Melinda Glasgow, ’02, Rob Garcia, and Renee Livingston,
’82. UC Day is an annual event that emphasizes to California’s elected officials
the vital role the University of California plays in the state’s education, innovation and quality of life.
erosion from new hiking trails near Lake
Tahoe. Daniel McGregor, ’01, is a licensed
real estate broker with Radius Group Commercial Real Estate on California’s Central
Coast. He will specialize in apartment sales.
Previously, McGregor worked with Re/Max
Gold Coast Realtors in Ventura, Calif. Danielle Fest Grabiel, MESM ’03, is now at the
David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC),
having received the school’s first three-year,
full-tuition “Advocate for Justice” academic
Sara Miller McCune, *’05, has launched a major national magazine and Web site that focus on
providing well-researched solutions to society’s most serious problems. The glossy 8x11 magazine
will begin with a circulation of 100,000 that includes opinion leaders from government, academia,
business, philanthropy and journalism in the U.S. and Canada. The Web site, www.miller-mccune.
com publishes a daily stream of policy-related articles and blogs, as well as all the content from the
print magazine.
The magazine staff works with the academic community to promote their findings in accessible
format that is both easily understood and thought-provoking, according to McCune, who is a trustee
for the UCSB Foundation. McCune is chairwoman of SAGE Publications, a leading international
publisher of academic journals, references and books for professionals in many fields.
Miller-McCune and Miller-McCune.com are published by the Miller-McCune Center for Research,
Media and Public Policy, a nonprofit public benefit.
* Honorary alumni
Spring 2008
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the Energy Sustainability Coordinator
in the city’s Office
of Environmental
Affairs. He works
with local commercial and industrial
sectors to improve
the energy efficiency
of their buildings
and increase the use
of renewable energy
as part of the city’s
Climate Action Plan,
which established a
strategy for meeting
the goals of the Kyoto
Protocol. Evangeline
Gaucho alumni Michael “Willy” Williams, ‘86, Brent “Bucko”
Benchek, ’05, is the
Fager, ‘86, and John “Jarveye” Jarvis, ‘86, reunited in March
new executive director of the Santa
for the Solvang Century Ride, which is a fundraiser for heart
Barbara Chapter of
disease-related programs. The riders, who were Sigma Chi
the American Instifraternity brothers while at UC Santa Barbara, gear up before
tute of Architects.
the start of the race for their first 100-mile ride.
Kristina Estudillo
Tierney, MESM ’05,
who works as a planner for Marin County,
scholarship. She plans to study international
was
recently
elected
to
represent Sonoma in
human rights and environmental law. Brandy
creating
the
Sonoma
County
Community
O’Gorman, MESM ’03, was named chair
Climate
Action
Plan,
intended
to reduce
of the Environmental Compliance Committee for the California-Nevada Section
of the American Water Works Association,
the largest organization of water-supply
professionals in the world. The committee
works to develop a proactive program to
identify and track changes to existing environmental regulations and new regulatory
requirements that would affect water supply
utilities. Kazuhido Yamada, MESM ’03, has
spent the past three years living in Munich,
Germany, developing renewable energy
sources. This past March, he established
a windpower company in Poland, which
owns a 50-megawatt wind farm and plans
to expand its capacity to 200 megawatts. He
is also working to build eco-power plants
fueled by micro-hydro or biomass in Central
and Eastern Europe. Kevin Afflerbaugh,
MESM ’04, left his job in the Environmental
Services Office of the city of Santa Barbara
and moved to Boulder, Colo., to become
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greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by
2015. James Uwins, MESM ’05, recently
returned from a “seven-month all expensespaid stay in one of the Middle East’s finest
locales: Camp Taqaddum in Al Anbar
province, Iraq.” Uwins was commissioned in
the U.S. Marine Corps in 1999, has been a
captain since 2004, and was on active duty
when he attended the Bren School as a part
of a USMC program to provide training for
officers to manage environmental issues.
Kristiana Kocis, ’06, joins the American
Red Cross, Santa Barbara Chapter, as major
gifts officer. Kocis had previously worked
with UCSB’s Annual Fund and the science
and engineering fundraising office. Nicole
Helton, ’06, had “As We Are,” a work of
dance choreography, presented as part of
the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s “New
Works: Santa Barbara Choreographers” on
Jan. 11. Helton serves as the administrative
director for Santa Barbara Dance Alliance.
She also performed with Ballet Santa Barbara recently. Amanda Kastelic, ’06, is the
new community relations and education
coordinator for Hospice of Santa Barbara.
She was previously executive assistant to
the publishers of the Santa Barbara NewsPress. Kimbrely Matsoukas, MESM ’06,
has been promoted from Sustainability
Coordinator to Sustainability Manager at
Coach and UCSB Grad Lin Loring
Racks up 700 Wins in Tennis
Indiana Women’s Tennis head coach Lin Loring, ’72,
earned the 700th coaching win of his career earlier this
year. Loring sits atop the NCAA wins column as the first
Division I women’s tennis coach to win 700 matches. Loring
Lin Loring
tallied 658 of the wins at Indiana University, and 42 wins
while coaching at UCSB from 1973 to 1977.
He didn’t even realize he had 700 wins until assistant coach Ramiro Azcui
told him.
While at UC Santa Barbara, Loring spent four years guiding Santa Barbara’s
women’s teams into the Top 20. He engineered his UCSB squads to 17th-, ninth-,
and 14th-place national finishes his last three seasons.
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carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street.
In addition to managing and reporting on
internal waste elimination teams and the
recycling program, she organizes community
projects and directs the company’s external
recycling program and climate-neutral product program. Patrick Yellin, MESM ’06, has
been promoted to National Coordinator of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
Discharge Monitoring Report—Quality
Assurance Study Program. Central to his
many and wide-ranging duties is the task
of coordinating state-level coordinators,
who evaluate the analytical and reporting
abilities of laboratories that routinely perform the inorganic chemistry and whole
effluent toxicity self-monitoring analyses
required by National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System program permits.
Yellin is located at EPA headquarters in
Washington, D.C. Daniella Elghanayan, ’07,
has joined SurfMedia Communications as
a public relations associate. She previously
interned at nonprofit organizations, such as
the Santa Barbara Green Business Program.
Tisa Jimenez, Ph.D. ’07, assistant professor
of special education at Loyola Marymount
University, published “Education for All:
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Spring 2008
Critical Issues in the Education of Children and Youth with Disabilities” (JosseyBass, 2008) with co-editor Victoria Graf.
Antonio Lloret, Ph.D. ’07, has already begun
an assistant professorship at the Instituto
Tecnológico Autónimo in Mexico City. Maria Mircheva, MESM ’07, became a mother
on June 9, 2007, giving birth to a healthy
daughter, Sasha. Mircheva is currently
Executive Director of the Sugar Pine Foundation in South Lake Tahoe. Amy Matteson,
’07, has joined the Santa Barbara Independent as a copy editor. Peter Thermos, ’07, has
been commissioned as a second lieutenant
in the U.S. Marine Corps. He will report to
The Basic School in Quantico, Va., on May
1. Anne Whitney, Ph.D. ’07, assistant professor of education at Penn State University,
won the Steve Cahir Early Career Award
given to early career scholars for an article
or dissertation in the area of writing and
literacies that demonstrates excellence in
theory, literature review, methods, and findings, including significance of the research
and quality of writing. The award is given
every other year and only when there is a
deserving paper.
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Obituaries
Betty June (Cline) Zaby, ’45, died Dec. 14,
2007. She was 84. She was a longtime resident of Downey, Calif., although she and her
husband, John, had recently moved to North
Las Vegas to be closer to family.
June Marie Conrad, ’48, died Jan. 21, 2008,
after a long battle with cancer. She was a
lifelong resident of Ojai, Calif. She served
as a homemaker and substitute teacher. She
also served as church secretary for Ojai First
Baptist Church.
Carl C. Cummins, ’48, died Jan. 3, 2008. He
was 88. He served as the Dean of Applied Arts
at Cal Poly for 25 years until his retirement
in 1986. He continued to teach part time in
the College of Engineering until 1998. He
received a master’s from USC and a Ph.D.
from UCLA.
Jesse Todd Brouhard, *’55, died Feb. 22,
2008. He was the first UC Santa Barbara
Honorary Alumnus in 1955. His wife, June
Koenig Brouhard, graduated in 1954. Todd
Brouhard was a sales executive for Sears; he
retired in 1986. The Brouhards moved to
Santa Barbara from West Covina, Calif. Over
the years they remained actively involved with
the Alumni Association; June Brouhard was
a founding board member. The Brouhards
will leave their home on the Santa Barbara
Riviera to the University to support alumni
scholarships.
Jorgen Hansen, ’57, died Feb. 24, 2008. He
was 85. He had taught figure drawing in the
Santa Barbara Adult Education Program
since 1978. He had served as the educational
coordinator for the Santa Barbara Museum
of Art. His artwork was in group shows in
California, Paris and Mexico. He had served
as a navigator/bombardier in World War II.
James B. Lindholm Jr., ’65, died Jan. 31,
2008, after battling pancreatic cancer. He was
64. He served as San Luis Obispo County’s
only legal counsel from 1977 to October
2007. He earned his law degree from UC
Berkeley in 1968.
John Alfred Pierre Dennis Jr.,’70, was shot to
death Feb. 9, 2008. He was a faculty member
at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., and
City College of San Francisco, where he was
known as “Dr. D” on both campuses. He was
director of St. Mary’s High Potential Program,
which worked with first-generation college
graduates. He held a Ph.D. and a master’s
degree from Stanford.
Mark L. Bronson,’85, died Nov. 21, 2007. He
was 44. He was a real estate and investment
management partner in the Tokyo office of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. A
pioneer in his field, Bronson developed many
of the financing and investment structures
commonly used in Japan today.
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