CAMPUS NOTES

Next month, Goleta Valley Beautiful will laud at its annual awards banquet two UCSB locations for their superior design or landscaping qualities: The Intercollegiate Athletics Building on Ocean Rd. will receive the group’s 2008 award in the public/institutional category, while the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration has created a tour of exotic trees on campus that will get an award in the open category.

Benjamin J. Cohen,professor of political science, has joined the board of directors of the State Street Ballet, a group he and his wife, historian Jane DeHart, have supported for many years. He joined the faculty in 1991.

Stephen Laguette, lecturer in mechanical engineering, was notified that his paper, “Integration of Industry Partners into a Capstone Design Program,” has been selected one of the five best in the category of Design in Engineering Education by the American Society for Engineering Education.

Verta Taylor, professor and chair of sociology, has received a John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Social Change from Notre Dame University. It is given annually for a career of “outstanding contributions to the scholarly literature” about collective behavior.

Carla M. D’Antonio, professor of environmental studies, has co-edited, with Jeffrey D. Corbin of Union College and Mark Stromberg of the UC Natural Reserve System, a comprehensive anthology of state-of-the-art grasslands research titled “California Grasslands: Ecology and Management” (University of California Press, 2008).

Steven R. Smith, assistant professor of counseling, clinical, and school psychology, has co-edited a textbook for graduate-level clinical and counseling psychology programs titled “Personality Assessment” (Routledge, 2008). Robert P. Archer of the Eastern Virginia Medical School was co-editor.

Robert O. Collins, professor emeritus of history, died on April 11 of cancer. The Illinois native was 75. A former dean of graduate students and director of the UC/DC Program, he was a renowned Africa scholar and author of some 40 books, many written after he retired in 1994 with 29 years of service. He is survived by a daughter, two sons, a stepson, and two brothers.

In the April 14 Faculty Club story, the club’s locker room, not the main building, was constructed as “a temporary facility.” .