CAMPUS NOTES

The UCSB Lagoon has a new, if temporary, habitat to help water birds avoid disturbance by people and predators. Interns with the Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration joined rowing coaches to move the rowing team’s floating dock to the middle of the lagoon last month. They spread more than 200 bags of sand—approximately three tons—over the dock and set up driftwood perches. The rowing coaches contributed the use of the dock for 11 months a year, said Lisa Stratton, the center’s ecosystems director.

Bruce Bimber, professor of political science and communication, is one of more than 40 scholars selected to be a 2006-07 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto. He will have a year in which to pursue his research projects.

Jeff Dozier, professor and founding dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, was selected by NASA and the Interior Department as one of two winners of the prestigious 2005 William Pecora Award for scientific excellence in remote sensing of the Earth. He is the third UCSB geographer to receive this award since 1991.

Stephanie LeMenager, associate professor of English, has been awarded the 2005 Lyon Prize for Best Book in Western American Literary Studies by the Western Literature Association. Her book is titled “Manifest and Other Destinations: Territorial Fictions of the 19th-Century United States” (University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

Helen H. Gordon, an editor and faculty assistant in electrical and computer engineering, has published “The Secret Love Story in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (Xlibris Corp., 2005), the result of a personal quest by this former English professor to reveal the sonnets’ true meanings.

Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history, has edited the 2004 UCSB conference papers on Wal-Mart’s influence and practices into “Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism” (The New Press, 2006).

Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, professor emeritus of history, died at his Santa Barbara home on Oct. 24 of heart failure. The native of Zhejiang, China, was 82. After working for Harvard University, he was hired at UCSB in 1959. During his 32 years here, he chaired the History Department, was named Faculty Research Lecturer, and wrote a prize-winning study of Chinese history that is still in print. He is survived by his wife, Dolores, a UCSB professor of music; a son; and three grandchildren.