CAMPUS NOTES

Construction of the Broida Expressway Bicycle Path, which began in early October, is now about half completed, according to Marsha Zilles, an architect with physical facilities. She expects the 120-yard-long concrete path to be finished in early February, unless rain delays the contractor. The 12-foot-wide, landscaped thoroughfare will stretch from the Material Science Lab to Webb Hall.

Claudia Chapman, executive director of the UCSB Academic Senate, has been elected president of the Santa Barbara County Arts Fund Board of Directors for 2005-07. She has been on the board since 1998.

Chemist Martin Moskovits, the Bruce and Susan Worster dean of science, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was honored for “distinguished research in surface and cluster physics and chemistry.”

Adrian Wenner, professor emeritus of ecology, evolution, and marine biology, has been elected president of the Western Apicultural Society for the 2005-06 term. The professional society emphasizes beekeeping and research.

Ned Nash, an administrative assistant with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, has co-authored the lavishly illustrated “The World’s Most Beautiful Orchids” (Thunder Bay Press, 2005) with Greg Allikas.

Janet Walker, professor and chair of film studies, analyzes human memory, especially regarding traumatic events, as it constructs personal and public meaning in “Trauma Cinema: Documentary Incest and the Holocaust” (University of California Press, 2005).

Hether Brown, a 1999 UCSB graduate and self-employed bookkeeper and office management specialist, has joined the Office of Public Affairs as office manager. She follows Winnie Yamada, who retired after 17 years of service at UCSB.

Donald L. Guenthart, a retired lead groundskeeper for Housing and Residential Services, died on Nov. 6. The California native was 73. He and his wife, Shirley, had operated pony rides and a landscape gardening business before H&RS hired him in 1980. He retired in 1991. He is survived by his wife, four children, a sister, three brothers, and eight grandchildren.