CAMPUS NOTES

Time to pass on new or “gently used” books for children, from infancy through age 12, so that they may find new readers in other families. Until March 31, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is collecting bilingual books, children’s dictionaries, pop-up books, biographies, nature books, and age-appropriate fiction for distribution throughout the South Coast. The Read Around the World Book Drive has several drop-off points on campus in addition to the GGSE. They include the Women’s Center, the A.S. Community Affairs Board, the Office of Student Life, and various units of Housing and Residential Services.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, professor of history, has been honored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations with its Ferrell Book Prize for distinguished scholarship. His 2005 book, “Racing the Enemy,” a comprehensive account of the end of WW II in the Pacific, was called “a stunning achievement” by the prize committee.

Ann Bermingham, professor of history of art and architecture, has edited “Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough’s ‘Cottage Door’” (Yale University Press, 2005), a companion book to the exhibition by the same name at the Huntington Museum in San Marino, Calif. The exhibition of paintings will run through May 14.

Steven Gross, professor of French horn, has released a solo CD, the “Complete Strauss Horn Concertos,” through Summit Records, the leading label for brass musicians. The recording is accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Bratislava and conducted by Dale Clevenger of the Chicago Symphony.

Michael Miller, former research analyst for Institutional Advancement, has been promoted to director of development for the Division of Social Sciences. He joined UCSB in 2004.

Ann Smoot, former coordinator of special research projects for the Development Department, has been promoted to its director of regional giving. She has been at UCSB since 1981, and with development since 1984.

In an article on the new contract for UC clerical workers in the March 6 edition a quote mistakenly indicated that UCSB childcare workers would receive an equity increase. That increase on this campus is only for library assistants, according to Leslie Sanchez, employee and labor relations manager. Also, nonunion clericals have “agency fees” that go to CUE deducted from their paychecks.