CAMPUS NOTES

Filmmaker and UCSB sociology professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, director of “The Shape of Water,” will be featured at the Professional Women’s Association’s 11th annual conference on May 9. “Women as Architects of Change—Connect Today/Seize Tomorrow” will run all day in Corwin Pavilion. Panel discussions and workshops facilitated by local business women include “Women and Finance,” “Public Speaking and Confidence,” among others. Visit <www.pwa.ucsb.edu> to register by Friday, May 4. Call Sandy Camp, x4127, with questions.

Pamela Allen, a senior conference coordinator for Housing and Residential Services’ Campus Conference Services, has recently been designated a Certified Meeting Professional by the Convention Industry Council. This comes after successfully passing a written examination, preparation for which usually takes one year. She now joins a handful of other UC staff with such credentials.

Michael Goodchild, professor of geography, has received the Geospatial Information and Technology Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2007. The award “recognizes an individual’s outstanding contribution and longstanding commitment to the geospatial industry,” according to the citation.

Dr. Elizabeth Downing, acting director of Student Health Service for a little more than 18 months, has been selected the permanent director and campus physician. A specialist in adolescent medicine, she first joined UCSB as a staff physician in 1979.

Mary MacRae, formerly executive director of Santa Barbara’s Center Stage Theater, has been selected office manager for the UCSB Alumni Association. She is a UCSB alumna in English literature.

Stephen M. Horvath, professor emeritus of biological sciences, died at his home in Clarence, NY, on March 21. The Cleveland native was 95. After a variety of medical research and teaching positions, mostly on the East Coast, he joined UCSB in 1961 and helped establish the Institute of Environmental Stress. He retired in 1984 and is survived by two sons, a daughter, and six grandchildren.

Further information about the NSF CAREER grants first published in the April 2 issue has disclosed that totals of three other assistant professors’ grants were incorrect. The corrected, five-year totals should be $734,000 for Song-I Han; $600,000 for Todd Oakley; and $708,000 for Tommaso Treu.