CAMPUS NOTES

Santa Barbara County Deputy District Attorney Joyce Dudley will keynote the 9th annual conference of UCSB’s Professional Women’s Association on May 10. Developing professional and personal strengths is the conference theme, and it is reflected in the many workshops offered. Signups begin on April 11 by going online to <www.pwa.ucsb.edu>. Registration fees are $55 for PWA members and $80 for nonmembers; scholarships are available. Contact Barbara Byrge (babs@engineering.ucsb.edu) for details.

It costs $1,000 to send a cancer-stricken child to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times for a week. The A.S. Community Affairs Board (CAB) invites the campus community to help such youngsters by participating in a Walk for Good Times around the lagoon on April 17. The entrance fee is $10 a person and registration is at 10 a.m. at the event. CAB is trying to beat last year’s total of $3,000.

T.J. Bloominger, senior storekeeper for communications services, last month collected two first-place ribbons from the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show for his orchids Mexicoa giesbreghtiana and Sophronitis acuensis. It was his first time at the international show.

Marc J. McGinnes, senior lecturer of environmental studies, was appointed to the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission last month as a representative of Second District Supervisor Susan Rose. A practicing attorney, he intends to retire from UCSB in June after 33 years of teaching.

Chrisanna Waldrop, who handles intellectual property issues for the Office of Research, has been appointed by Third District Supervisor Brooks Firestone to the Santa Barbara County Human Relations Commission for a three-year term. She succeeds Denise Segura, professor of sociology, who served from 2002-05.

Lora Leamy, formerly an assistant in the Development Office’s donor relations section, has been promoted to development’s coordinator of gift recognition systems.

Monica Pessino, formerly a graphic artist for the Marine Science Institute, is now creative director of the MSI’s graphics unit, which is called Ocean O’ Graphics. The autonomous unit is a full-service design and production studio.

Robin Logue Rogers, formerly research development officer in the Office of Research, has been selected executive assistant to the dean of social sciences in the College of Letters and Science.