CAMPUS NOTES

Stephen E. Cooper, ’68, of Discovery Bay, was recently elected to chair the 2005-06 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees. Another new officer was Fredric E. Steck of Santa Ynez, who was chosen vice chair, development. Returning officers included treasurer Bruce G. Wilcox, ’77, of New York City; Kathleen D. McKee, ’59, of Santa Barbara, vice chair, stewardship; and secretary Susan Worster, ’70, of Los Altos Hills. The foundation, the principal fund-raiser for UCSB, has raised its comprehensive campaign goal to $500 million by 2007.

Bernard Kirtman, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the 2005 Prize for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, which was recently presented in Greece at the interdisciplinary conference of the European Society of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering.

Marisela Marquez, director of the Academic Senate’s Center for Faculty Outreach, was named a Local Hero for 2005 by the Santa Barbara Independent, mainly for her work as president of La Casa de la Raza and her social activism.

Eckart Meiburg, professor and chair of mechanical and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. With members around the globe, the APS is the planet’s largest professional society for physicists.

Jati Sengupta, professor of economics, discusses the growth of India’s information technology sector and its global impacts in “India’s Economic Growth: A Strategy for the New Economy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Gale Morrison, professor of education, now serves as full-time acting dean of UCSB’s Graduate Division. Since August 2004 she had been acting dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, which is now run by Dean Jane Close Conoley.

Alfred Gollin, professor emeritus of history, died on Oct. 30, 2005. The New York native was 79. A G.I. in World War II, he won a special term at Oxford University in Britain, eventually graduating with a doctorate. He was also official historian for London’s The Observer newspaper. After returning to the U.S., he spent two years at UCLA before coming to UCSB in 1966. He wrote two groundbreaking books on air warfare, and retired in 1994. He is survived by two daughters, Julie and Suzanne, both of whom live in Europe.