CAMPUS NOTES

UCSB’s Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life has successfully created a $2-million permanent endowment, center officials announced. Sparked by a prestigious challenge grant of $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002, the Capps Center had to raise three times that amount by last July. W. Clark Roof, director, and Leonard Wallock, associate director, thanked local foundations and private donors.

Philip J. Bugay, UCSB ’81 and a senior vice president of investment banker Morgan Stanley, has been elected treasurer of the UC Alumni Associations. As an alumni representative to the Board of Regents, starting as a Regent-designate, he will become an ex-officio voting Regent in one year.

Catherine L. Albanese, professor of religious studies, has been named a member of her alma mater’s prestigious alumni honor group, the Libris Society of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Members are graduates who have “distinguished themselves in their personal and professional lives.”

Sanjit K. Mitra, professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ James Mulligan Education Medal for “outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education...” It carries a $20,000 honorarium, and is his third IEEE award.

Christine Van Gieson, director of admissions, has been awarded tuition and limited expenses for a weeklong educational seminar in Heidelberg, Germany, this month by the Baden-Württemberg state government. She was one of 15 selected through an international competition.

Shasta Delp, formerly an Academic Senate administrative assistant, has been promoted to Senate analyst for graduate education. She will work closely with the Graduate Council.

Timothy M. McGovern, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, died suddenly on Oct. 9 from a heart attack. The native of Langley Park, Md., was 41. He joined UCSB in 1998 as a lecturer and worked his way up. His research focused on 19th-century Iberian literature and applied linguistics. He is survived by his mother, Ona, and a sister and two brothers. The Nov. 3-4 campus Colloquium on Mexican Literature will be dedicated in his honor.

In “Halloween Contest Set” (Oct. 9, 2006 issue) Kim Summerfield’s name was misspelled.