CAMPUS NOTES

Staff Assembly <www.staffassembly.ucsb.edu> and the Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Council <www.csac.ucsb.edu/index.shtml> are among those organizations and departments that have recently conducted major overhauls of their Web sites. Linked to the CSAC site are other sites useful to employees, from Human Resources to the Professional Women’s Association and the local weather. UCSB Libraries <www.library.ucsb.edu> is another wide-ranging resource with a re-design that not only indexes library services but links to UCSB Graduate Division, the Alumni Association, and even UC’s At Your Service site, which has also been made more navigable.

Mustafa Khammash, professor and vice chair of mechanical engineering, has been elected a Fellow in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for his “contributions to robust control and its applications.” He is one of 268 new Fellows worldwide.

W. Douglas Morgan, professor of economics, has been appointed to the Montecito Water District Board of Directors as a replacement director until the next election in November 2008. He specializes in water resource economics, and joined the UCSB faculty in 1967.

Catherine Cole, associate professor of theater and dance, and Stephan Miescher, associate professor of history, have co-edited “Africa After Gender?” (Indiana University Press, 2007) with Takyiwaa Manuh, University of Ghana professor of African studies, an exploration of gender’s meaning in Africa today.

Judi Haskell, former grants manager for the Neuroscience Research Institute, has transferred to the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research as contract and grants manager. She has worked on campus since 1985.

Vickie Wadlington, former office manager for Central Stores, has been promoted to assistant manager and will also oversee all administrative support functions as well as operations for mail services and central receiving. She has been with UCSB for 25 years.

George Yatchisin, former Arts and Lectures writer and publicist, is now communications coordinator of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. He has been at UCSB since 1994, and worked for Instructional Computing and lectured for the Writing Program.