CAMPUS NOTES

UCSB’s Professional Women’s Association has space at its 10th annual conference on Wednesday, April 19, in Corwin Pavilion. Though the deadline has passed for online registration—see the PWA Web site <www.pwa.ucsb.edu> for the program—people will be able to register at the door. KEYT television anchorwoman Paula Lopez will keynote the luncheon at about 12:30 p.m.

David Marshall, dean of humanities and fine arts, has been awarded the prestigious 2005-06 Louis Gottschalk Prize for his book “The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815.” The American Society for 18th-Century Studies considered a wide number of works in various disciplines before making its award selection.

Whitney Morris, a conference coordinator for the Campus Conference Services Office, has passed a one-year course of preparation, ending in a written examination, to become a Convention Industry Council Certified Meeting Professional. She is one of “a very few people in the UC system who have this distinction,” said her supervisor, Sally Vito, of Housing and Residential Services.

Joshua Schimel, professor of ecology, evolution, and marine biology, and chair of the Environmental Studies Program, is one of 18 North American academic environmental scientists to be awarded an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. The fellowship provides two weeks of training in making science understandable to the general public.

Farfalla Borah, former employee and labor relations assistant manager for Human Resources, was recently selected the campus’s disability compliance officer and whistleblower coordinator. The UCSB alumna has been a staff employee since 1983, the last 10 years of which with labor relations. She succeeds Linda Raney, who retired after 23 years of service.

Jayne Rosenblatt, former assistant to the dean of the College of Creative Studies, has moved up in classification to become assistant to the director of the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. She has been at UCSB nearly nine years, all at CCS.

Charles Walter Rosenthal, a snow researcher affiliated with UCSB’s Institute for Computational Earth System Science and the Natural Reserve System, died in an accident on California’s Mammoth Mountain on April 6. The native of Burbank, Calif., was 58. A former T.A. for the Department of Geography, he had worked part-time for ICESS since 1990 and planned to pursue a doctorate at UCSB. He is survived by a wife, Lori, and their daughter, Lily. To contribute, go to <www.icess.ucsb.edu/news>.