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Up Front

4 SecLab Scientists Combat Cutting Edge Cyberattacks 8 Hero Hackers Earn Stripes in Capture the Flag Competition 9 Gaucho Played Key Role in Nabbing Hacker 12 Lesson Planet Helps Teachers Go Back to School

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hero hackers: Computer Security Group Arms the Technological World Courtney Hampton, Coastlines writer

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Breaking:

“Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” read the tweet from the Associated Press in April 2013. Sixty characters, one fake report, and within two minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged over 140 points.

Each year, UC Santa Barbara hosts a hacking contest, the International Capture the Flag Competition.

Photo: Paul Wellman.

Back at UC Santa Barbara, the hack inspired Computer Science Ph.D. student Gianluca Stringhini to identify compromised accounts on social media platforms by examining short URLs often found on Twitter accounts. He found that URL shortening services are easily manipulated, producing malicious URLs that can “phish” for private information or send spam.

Stringhini, along with fellow doctoral students and computer science faculty, compose the Computer Security Group at UC Santa Barbara. From their headquarters at the Security Lab (SecLab) in Harold Frank Hall, the group designs, builds, and secures software systems, essentially arming software against cyberattacks. The unassuming laboratory affronts problems in cyberspace by detecting intrusion and malware, securing web-based applications, and performing vulnerability analysis on computers.

“From the technological point of view, it’s a cat-andmouse game, meaning that we could develop a new way to detect these targeted attacks,” said Professor Giovanni Vigna, codirector of the Security Lab on campus.

For example, in February 2013 information security group Mandiant released a report exposing China’s involvement in cyber espionage of U.S. companies. The “eye-opening” document revealed a major threat by the Chinese military on U.S. businesses.

In light of recent cyberattacks, Vigna stated that the Computer Security Group has shifted focus to work on evasive malware. Malware has become more aware of its surroundings, allowing it to hide in particular applications or documents and attack specific people.

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The UC Santa Barbara Computer Security Group faculty, l to r: Giovanni Vigna, Gianluca Stringhini, and Richard Kemmerer.

Photo: Rod Rolle.

“It’s like proving that a lock can be picked so that when you have to buy a lock, you buy a better one,” Giovanni Vigna In March 2011, a SecurID company, RSA Security, was hacked after an employee opened an Excel spreadsheet titled “2011 Recruitment Plan” that had malware to take control of the computer and phish for sensitive information.

As cyberattacks have grown more sophisticated, Vigna explained that there are less opportunistic attacks and more targeted attacks, and mapped out the evolution in malware and cybercrime in the past 10 years: Cybervandalists began by breaking into websites for bragging rights, but then hackers realized that they could siphon money and private information from these cyberattacks.

“From a technology point of view, they moved from throwing a wide net and compromising a small group of computers and suck out information,” Vigna elaborated. “Now with cyberespionage, they want to infiltrate you—they want to infiltrate Google, The Wall Street Journal, a South Korean bank. They want a precise target.”

To keep up with the game of cat-and-mouse, the Computer Security Group has recently discovered an automated way to steal Netflix movies, Spotify songs, and Amazon streaming movies. But Professor Giovanni Vigna, codirector of the Security Lab on campus, says that they are the “good guys.”

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explained Vigna. “We find the problem. As an academic, [we wonder] how does this work? Can it be broken? Before we go public, we go back to [the company] and say, ‘Listen, there’s this problem. Can we help you fix it?’”

The two main focuses of the Computer Security Group are vulnerability analysis and anti-malware solutions. Vigna likened vulnerability analysis to picking a lock.

“It’s like proving that a lock can be picked so that when you have to buy a lock, you buy a better one,” Vigna described. “A lot of vulnerability analysis is that.

Of course, the same tools can be used for bad purposes.

But when we find vulnerabilities, we find them so that we can fix them before they are deployed to a million users.”

The second focus, anti-malware solutions, analyzes programs to see if an attachment or website is malicious. These programs—Wepawet and Anubis— are available to the public for free. Any time a person encounters a website or document that is suspicious, the program can run the website or document for the person and check if it is malicious. In addition to the group’s practical solutions, the Computer Security Group also does extensive research and theoretical work. This group publishes more papers at conferences than any other organization in the world.

Consequently, UC Santa Barbara has become a hot spot for computer science, bringing in international students from all corners of the world for the doctoral program.

From about 200 applications, only two doctoral students are accepted each year.

Ali Zand, current Ph.D. Computer Science candidate from Iran, said that UC Santa Barbara was an easy choice because it was a top school in practical security and “has the perfect weather.” Zand reflected on a few of the Computer Security Group’s recent accomplishments that have stemmed directly from current events.

In Summer 2007 the Computer Security Group performed the Top-to-Bottom Review of electronic voting machines in California.

The group discovered major flaws in the Sequoia voting system and exposed these flaws by creating a viruslike software to steal votes.

“While most critical systems are continuously scrutinized and evaluated for safety and correctness, electronic voting systems are not subject to the same level of scrutiny,” read the 2008 report. “A number of recent studies have shown that most (if not all) of the electronic voting systems being used today are fatally flawed, and that their quality does not match the importance of the task that they are supposed to carry out.”

The report identified vulnerabilities in the voting machines and made suggestions for improvement. Just months after the Computer Security Group completed its review of the voting machines, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified and withdrew her approval of the machine.

Vigna said that this was one of his crowning

Marco Cova '10.

Photo: Paul Wellman

achievements while working at UC Santa Barbara.

“It was great because it showed the impact of the [Computer Security Group’s] activities,” Vigna lauded Marco Cova ’10 assisted in the review of the voting machines as a Ph.D. student.

Cova first worked with the Computer Security Group as an exchange student at UC Santa Barbara during the 2001-02 academic year.

The Italian student chose to return to the University for his doctoral degree in 2005 and assisted in publishing the results of the Top-toBottom Review in 2008.

Cova describes his time at UC Santa Barbara as “fundamental” because it created job opportunities and shaped his views on how research should be pursued.

“Doing a Ph.D. with the

Security Group is quite a bit of work and [a] commitment, but I’ve always found that its people and its atmosphere made the lab a great place to also have fun and spend time together besides work,” Cova said.

For the “good guys” in the Computer Security Group, saving democracy, preventing cyber espionage, and thwarting hackers are all in a day’s work.

Programs Wepawet - http://wepawet.iseclab.org/ Detect and analyze web-based threats by reviewing a URL. Anubis - http://anubis.iseclab.org/ Analyze malware by submitting a Windows executable or Android application file, APK.

Giovanni Vigna’s Tips to Avoid Getting Hacked 1. Do not use Internet Explorer 2. Update your machine’s software 3. Disable Java 4. Backup all important files and programs 5. Check your banking account for suspicious activity and use a two-factor authentication (like an additional password or a RSA SecurID key) to prevent identity theft www.ucsbalum.com

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Hack and Defend:

UCSB’s Acclaimed ICTF Competition Breeds Hackers,

By Bopha Hul ’13 but the Good Kind Throughout the computer room, the continuous click-clack sounds of fingertips running deftly over the computer keyboard can be heard. With eyes glued to the screen, teams of programmers try to outsmart each other while maintaining their own security defenses.

While this could describe a determined group of hackers looking to break into sites for social or financial gain, the gathering is actually the International Capture the Flag Competition, a hands-on experience for college students and others held annually at UC Santa Barbara.

“Computer Science is better learned through hands-on approach,” explained Professor Giovanni Vigna, who is a faculty member of the Computer Science Department and Director of the Center for CyberSecurity at UC Santa Barbara.

Each year, Professor Giovanni Vigna, left, and his team of researchers organize the International Capture the Flag hacking tournament, and it plays out much like real-world hacking.

Photo: Paul Wellman

The iCTF Competition is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which teams compete independently against each other through live exercises. This prime example of the hands-on experiences students receive and can participate in on campus helps UC Santa Barbara breed hero hackers, those who battle to prevent harmful attacks on computer networks.

In these live exercises, the teams are given security problems where they must access, fix, and defend. All the while, they must use that same knowledge to breach opposing teams’ security defenses, hence capturing the “flag.”

The contest, which can go on for eight hours nonstop, originated in 2001. The iCTF became an international competition in 2004, and now boasts sponsors, such as Lastline, which provides malware defenses to companies.

Professor Vigna finds the iCTF Competition is both an educational and effective way to challenge computer science students. “First, it motivates students. Competition fosters innovation, creativity and commitment. Second, it increases the visibility of our education projects. In general, the security education at UCSB is of enormous value, we have some of the best researchers in the world. Third, it allows us to collect data to use for experiment,” he said.

Despite hackers’ portrayals in movies, the cat-and-mouse activity at the competition is less visually dynamic, involving hours of focused analysis and testing.

“There is a romanticization of the hacking community and this is largely in part due to Hollywood not being able to convey a realistic portrayal. Hacking is oftentimes a screen of text and scientific tests, almost like solving a riddle. It is not nearly as exciting as Hollywood makes it seem,” Professor Vigna said.

Sometimes, it’s only possible to identify heroes by the glow of their computer screens.

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Gaucho’s Vigilance Helped FBI Track Down Hacker

By Andrea Huebner ’91

It was the volume of UC Santa Barbara computer traffic that initially made Campus Network Manager Kevin Schmidt suspicious.

Network logs and traffic reports recorded a spike of campus network traffic going to the CNN website. “We shouldn’t see this level of activity pointed toward CNN,” said Schmidt, who graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1993. “The traffic was coming from several on-campus computers at the same time. The activity was typical of someone using a tool trying to conduct a denial-of-service attack.”

In fact, the day before, on Feb. 8, 2000, CNN’s website had been crippled by a denial-of-service attack. After checking log files, Schmidt determined that a computer in the Physics Department was being used in the CNN attack.

“Around that time, we realized we needed to get someone else involved,” Schmidt said. He contacted CNN and the FBI, who sent two agents to the campus to investigate. “We turned the hard drive over to the FBI to do their own forensics on it to see what information could be useful in the investigations,” Schmidt said.

During the investigation, the UC Santa Barbara team discovered key pieces of evidence about the hacker. First, logs tracked unauthorized access coming from the University of Alberta. Second, the hacker had left software tools on the computer, which had allowed him to control computers along UC Santa Barbara’s network, but also contained information leading back to the hacker.

As a result of UC Santa Barbara’s help, the FBI tracked the hacker to a home in Montreal, Canada. The hacker turned out to be a 16-yearold using the moniker Mafiaboy. “He was a script kiddie—he didn’t write (the software tools) himself,” Schmidt said.

Eventually, Mafiaboy was sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center and ordered to donate $250 to charity for his role in the February 2000 attacks on Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, CNN and other major Internet sites. The sites lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Sharing Information vs. Security

UC Santa Barbara Campus Network Manager Kevin Schmidt ‘93 is the campus’s first line of defense against cyberattacks.. Photo: Andrea Huebner

In Mafiaboy’s attack, the majority of compromised networks were at universities, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Schmidt pointed out that the unique needs of a university can make it vulnerable to attacks like these. “Open research environment and network security—that is a really big challenge today,” he said.

“You have faculty and undergraduates where security is not their first concern or area of specialty, so it can be very challenging to protect these environments or even know that they have been compromised.”

Balancing the role of research and the need for cybersecurity is a top concern of UC Santa Barbara’s network security group. “There were things that we didn’t have available to us then that have subsequently gone into place, such as a certain kind of traffic filter,” Schmidt said, which can restrict an attack to the network of an affected computer and limit the damage done to the target of the attack.

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have a centralized set of standards or tools. “Then the network itself evolved, so the demand grew,” Schmidt said. With the network security group established, Schmidt was named campus network manager.

When Schmidt first came to UC Santa Barbara, he was a transfer student from CSU Long Beach and had also been working at GTE as a database programmer. He became a consultant at the Micro Computer Lab in Phelps Hall, and, by the time he graduated in 1993, he was working part-time as information technology support staff for the Office of Budget and Planning.

Three years and several positions later, Schmidt became the first UC Santa Barbara campus network manager, sharing his expertise with other University of California campuses and participating in state and federal security groups.

Changing Landscape of Cyberattacks In the years since the 2000 attack, Schmidt has found the style of attacks have become more serious. “What happened back then tended to be the domain of idle curiosity—casual hackers trying to see what they could do,” he said. “They weren’t driven by financial gain. They weren’t driven by this economic or military purpose.”

Today’s larger attacks tend to be better organized and more targeted, and can be considered cyberterrorism, according to

Tips to Protect Yourself • Keep all operating systems and software up to date. For PCs, you can use a free program like Secunia PSI to identify what is out of date on your system. http://secunia.com/ • Install an anti-virus product.

• Use a firewall. Apple computers have a built-in firewall, but users must enable it.

• Use best practices to create your passwords. Avoid simple passwords, such as LetMeIn. Schmidt’s strategy to create a password involves converting a line or two of a song to an acronym along with some punctuation. “So it keys off of something meaningful to you,” he said.

• Don’t use the same password on multiple sites. Use the security questions to protect your password. “It’s not just using passwords, but using passwords intelligently,” Schmidt said.

• Use two-factor authorization, especially for any kind of financial information. This requires something you know—your password— and something you have—such as your phone to which a code is sent—to access a site.

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Schmidt. “That’s a concern, especially somewhere like UCSB,” he said. “We have people involved in research that could be marketable or have to do with defense. You can have countries wanting to take advantage of that.”

Schmidt said that cybercriminals have gone far beyond the email asking you to click a link and change your password or a call from the “Microsoft security center” saying they have detected a virus on your computer. Entrepreneurial hackers in other countries have turned malware into an industry, according to Schmidt.

Websites resembling regular e-commerce stores offer to customize malware to the buyer’s specifications, he said.

The site will also offer malware distribution, virus detection scanning, and data collection services, including a map showing the percent of computers worldwide infected by that particular malware.

“It’s full service,” said Schmidt, who learned about these sites through a presentation by the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force. The task force, which was established by the Patriot Act, provides training and technical expertise in e-commerce, network security and digital data recovery to industry, academia and law enforcement communities.

For Schmidt, vigilance isn’t restricted to cybersecurity at work—he also employs a variety of security techniques to protect himself and his family (see box). “People can’t be too relaxed and think anti-virus products will save them,” he said.

a conference, can be compromised with a key logger or other malware and expose your username and password to theft.

• Do not trust requests for sensitive information through email or telephone communication that you did not initiate. If you are unsure about how to respond to a request for sensitive information, ask someone you trust to review the request. Or ask the requester for additional contact information, such as a telephone number where you can reach them later.

• Keep your sensitive files protected.

1. Use encryption software, such as TrueCrypt, to put them into an encrypted directory. http://www.truecrypt.org/ 2. Save them to removable media, such as a flash drive, and then lock it up securely at home.

• Have backups of your important software and files. There are online backup services that also offer encryption.

• Securely erase and destroy media before you get rid of it, including hard drives, cell phones and laptops. You can’t just reformat the media; you must overwrite the media to completely erase your information.

• Consider the consequences of the information you put on social media, such as vacation plans that could alert someone to your house being empty.

Cybersecurity Glossary Agent — A program that performs some information gathering or processing task in the background.

Typically, an agent is given a very small and well-defined task.

ARPANET — The precursor to the Internet, ARPANET was a large wide-area network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). UC Santa Barbara was one of the first nodes on the network.

Authentication — Verifying the identity of a user, process, or device, often as a prerequisite to allowing access to resources in an information system.

Cyberattack — An attack, via cyberspace, targeting an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment/infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing controlled information.

Denial of Service (DoS) — A type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.

Hacker — Unauthorized user who attempts to or gains access to an information system.

Firewall — A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network.

Log file — A file that lists actions that have occurred. For example, Web servers maintain log files listing every request made to the server.

Malicious code — Malicious code is the term used to describe any code in any part of a software system or script that is intended to cause undesired effects, security breaches or damage to a system.

Malware — Short for malicious software, malware is software designed specifically to damage or disrupt a system, such as a virus or a Trojan horse.

Network — A network is a group of two or more computer systems linked together. Computers on a network are sometimes called nodes. Computers and devices that allocate resources for a network are called servers.

Phishing – The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

Rootkit — A set of tools used by an attacker after gaining root-level access to a host computer to conceal the attacker’s activities on the host and permit the attacker to maintain root-level access to the host through covert means.

Virus — A computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. A virus might corrupt or delete data on a computer, use email programs to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on a hard disk.

Vulnerability — An unintended flaw in software code or a system that leaves it open to the potential for exploitation in the form of unauthorized access or malicious behavior.

Zombie — A computer that has been implanted with a daemon or system agent that puts it under the control of a malicious hacker without the knowledge of the computer owner. Zombies are used by malicious hackers to launch DoS attacks.

Sources: Webopedia and National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

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LE S S ON P L A N ET Gaucho Company Helps Teachers Bring Exciting Curriculum to the Classroom Courtney Hampton, Coastlines Writer

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any people think that teachers have it easy: They finish their day by 3 p.m. and enjoy long summer vacations.

However, a teacher’s day does not end when the final bell rings, which is why Lesson Planet, an online curriculum search engine founded by Gaucho alumnus Jim Hurley, strives to deliver curriculum to busy educators.

“Teachers are really passionate about what they are doing,” explained Hurley, ’83, TEP ’85, M.Ed. ’93 “They see it as a higher calling and it is, but it makes them the busiest people in the world. They’re swamped: They need all the help they can get.”

Founded in 1999, Lesson Planet is an online curriculum search engine for PreK-12th grade educators. The company offers more than 400,000 teacher-reviewed curriculum resources, allowing teachers to bring new ideas to their classrooms and save time when creating lesson plans. Lesson Planet provides curriculum for 21st century learning skills, college and career readiness, English language development, health, language arts, languages, math, physical education, science, social studies, special education, and visual and performing arts. New features of Lesson Planet include EdTech Tutorials, which are professional development video courses for teachers, and the Educational Apps Guide, which are teacher reviews of the best apps for the classroom.

“There is a gap in what teachers do and what people think they do,” elaborated Judith Smith-Meyer, Education Communications Specialist at Lesson Planet. “Teachers spend three to four hours per week looking for curriculum.

At Lesson Planet, we understand why teachers need to get something that’s valuable quickly and how important those three to four hours really turn out to be when everything else crowds into their time.”

Teachers can search for curriculum by grade or subject. Hurley noted that teachers are very collaborative and social people, leading to the high number of teacher reviews and the 168,000 followers on Facebook.

“What’s so incredible about the web is that it’s what we call a global hallway,” Hurley said. “Now you don’t have to hope the teacher down the hall is going to share a resource or have a resource. You can get a world of ideas online and teach it in your own way.”

Hurley began to wonder how technology, such as the Macintosh computers of the ’80s, could empower teachers and students, which inspired him to find ways to instill technology into education. “[Jim Hurley] saw it at the right moment,” said Smith-Meyer, ’88, TEP ’90. “He could see what would become of the web and how it could help teachers before it was commonly accepted the way it is now.”

The web boom further convinced Hurley to found an educational technology company, originally called Education Planet. This website served as a general education portal for parents, teachers, and administrators, but teachers composed the majority of the traffic. The company changed its name to Lesson Planet after it targeted teachers and began charging for curriculum in 2004.

“We have over 20 teachers at Lesson Planet,” Hurley said. “Unlike a lot of other companies, we are super teachercentric and understand what teachers need. We have a built-in focus group.”

Of the 50 employees at Lesson Planet, 23 are UC Santa Barbara alumni. Smith-Meyer said that these employees are lively, engaged, and committed to their work.

“And they’re Gauchos—they like to have fun!” Hurley added with a smile. “Santa Barbarans really love being in Santa Barbara.”

Lesson Planet has made its home in the historic Lobero Building in Downtown Santa Barbara, just across the street from the Lobero Theatre. Inside, the employees are hard at work adding more educational apps to integrate iPads into classrooms and more resources that uphold Common Core Standards, which is a nationwide initiative to provide consistent educational goals.

One such former teacher, Mollie Moore M.Ed. ’10, began to review curriculum during the summer while teaching history. Eventually she decided to leave teaching to be a Curriculum Resource Manager at Lesson Planet, but her job keeps her updated on the best teaching practices.

“It’s about using the expertise of different people from different fields to create the best product that we can,” Moore said. “There’s a lot of learning, which I love, and a lot of collaboration.”

Nichole Schon, Education Content Developer for Lesson Planet, also enjoys being able to continue learning while pursuing her passion for teaching outside of the classroom.

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Above top: Gauchos Mollie Moore and Nicole Schon are two of the former teachers who now work for Lesson Planet. Above: The staff at Lesson Planet.

Right: Jim Hurley, ’83, TEP ’85, M.Ed. ’93 and Judith Smith Meyer, ’88, TEP ’90.

By the Numbers 1999 Year Founded

+400,000 Number of curriculum resources

23 Number of Gaucho alumni employees

2012 Year Named Small Business of the Year by California Assemblymen

168,133 Number of Facebook Likes

1,373 Number of Twitter followers

$5.79 Cost per month for a teacher to subscribe to Lesson Planet

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and reach a broader group of teachers.”

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in English at UC Santa Barbara in 2003, Schon went on to receive a master’s in Education in 2005. She began to teach throughout the Central Coast, but all the schools in the area had only been able to hire teachers on a year-to-year basis. This meant that all of the newly hired teachers received a pink slip and did not know if their contract would be renewed for the next year.

“When I got a pink slip for the umpteenth time,” Schon sighed, “I decided to shift gears for a while.”

Schon resolved to pursue writing more actively and began to work part-time at Lesson Planet. She has since been promoted to full-time and writes articles about teaching. In addition to working at Lesson Planet, Schon is involved in the South Coast Writing Project, which improves how educators teach writing.

Schon heard about the project through the UC Santa Barbara teaching program.

“When I went to apply at [Lesson Planet], it turns out that the person currently directing the South Coast Writing Project went to college with the CEO, [Jim Hurley],” said Schon. “The connections I have made at UCSB have on multiple occasions allowed me to earn income and be able to live here.”

Although Hurley and Smith-Meyer joke that their favorite part of working at Lesson Planet is the abundance of dark chocolate that they eat in the office, both agree that helping teachers is rewarding.

“One of my favorite things to do is look at our testimonials,” said Hurley. “Every day we get a lot of really nice testimonials from teachers. We have an amazing team of teachers, editors, reviewers, developers, designers, marketing, management—it’s a fun, meaningful mission, so we get a lot of really passionate people to work at Lesson Planet.”

Although one has to subscribe to Lesson Planet to view the lesson plans, the public can read articles written by teachers about a variety of academic subjects and issues that teachers face. Go to www. lessonplanet.com/ and click “Articles” at the top left to read more.

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Ancient Mysteries SOLD OUT January 16-February 3, 2014

Mediterranean Classics May 31-June 11, 2014

In the Wake of the Vikings May 21-29, 2014

Splendors Down Under February 21-March 11, 2014

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Tuscany October 15-23, 2014

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Southwest National Parks May 30-June 9, 2014

Treasures of Peru October 27-November 6, 2014

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Flavors of Northern Italy June 14-22, 2014

Black Sea Odyssey July 16-30, 2014 Bhutan March 19-30, 2014 SOLD OUT DATE ADDED: April 16-27, 2014 Pearls of Antiquity SOLD OUT April 25-May 8, 2014 European Coastal Civilizations 70th D-Day Landing Anniversary April 27-May 5, 2014

Journey Through Vietnam with Cambodia Extension October 19-November 3, 2014

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Alaska with Denali Extension August 23-30, 2014

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Iceland August 23-September 2, 2014 Discover Switzerland August 27-September 11, 2014 International Lifestyle Explorations: Provence September 20-October 12, 2014

For further information on 2014 Gaucho Getaways and/or to be added to the mailing list to receive future Gaucho Getaways brochures in the mail, contact Susan Goodale at gaucho.getaways@ia.ucsb.edu or 805-893-4611. www.ucsbalum.com 17 Trip details are also available at www.ucsbalum.com/programs/travel/getaways/trips

Around Storke Tower — Compiled from Staff, UCSB Public Affairs Reports, Noozhawk, and UCSB GradPost

Longtime UCSB Benefactors Endow $1 Million Chair in Experimental Science With a passion for science and faith in its potential for life-changing advancements, longtime UC Santa Barbara benefactors Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga have gifted the campus with a $1 million endowed chair in the field.

The recently appointed first incumbent to the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Chair in Experimental Science is already a star in science circles, and is becoming increasingly familiar to a broader audience: Joseph Incandela.

A professor of physics at UCSB and spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s Large Hadron Collider, Incandela is a key player on the international team of scientists credited in 2012 with observing the long-sought Higgs boson particle. With six fellow LHC project members, he was awarded a 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize by the Milner Foundation.

UCSB MAT (Media Arts and Technology) Students Highlighted in Leonardo The cover of the “Siggraph 2013” issue of Leonardo features an image from “Digiti Sonus,” an interactive fingerprint sonification and visualization installation

by MAT Ph.D. student, Yoon Chung Han, on exhibit at the Siggraph 2013 Art Gallery. The issue also incudes an article about “Digiti Sonus” as well as, another interactive installation on display at the Siggraph Art Gallery, “Swarm Vision” by George Legrady, MAT Department Chair, and MAT Ph.D. students Marco Pinter, Danny Bazo.

Leonardo is a print journal, edited by Leonardo/ the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and published by the MIT Press.

[ ] UCSB’s GREEN NUMBERS

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of its buildings are LEED certified

47%

of academic departments offer a class about sustainability (for a total of 321 classes and 217 faculty members who do eco-research)

50%

of food served is local, and

75%

of waste gets saved from the landfill via recycling and composting; the goal is to get that latter percentage to 100 by 2020.

The Gauchos have also, since the late 1990s, lowered their electricity use by

1/3

(10 on-campus photovoltaic systems help), their water use by

1/4

, and their food waste by almost

35%.

A whopping

94%

of students take alternative means of transit to class—there are more than

10,000

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UCSB Grads Serve Up StudySoup

UCSB Ranked Among the Country’s Top Public Universities by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report has once again included UC Santa Barbara in its annual listing of the Top 30 Public National Universities in the country, as well on its list of the Best National Universities.

UCSB was ranked No. 11 among the Top 30 Public National Universities.

In addition, the undergraduate program in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering jumped four spots, to No. 35 on the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Programs at Engineering Schools Whose Highest Degree is a Doctorate. Among engineering schools at public universities, UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering placed at No. 20, up a notch from last year’s rankings.

Among prospective freshman and undergraduate transfer students, UCSB continues to attract the best of the best. For the 2013-14 academic year, the average high school grade-point average of applicants admitted is 4.13, and the average total score achieved on the required SATR Test is 1944 out of a possible 2400.

Of the enrolling freshmen class, 29 percent are members of underrepresented minority groups (African-American, American Indian, and Chicano and Latino students), and nearly 40 percent are first generation college students.

The magazine has released its annual college rankings online at USNews.com.

Sieva Kozinsky and co-founder Jeff Silverman launched StudySoup, an online course reader platform that allows students and educators to access articles, videos and other materials from any computer or device using the Internet.

The UC Santa Barbara graduates found the idea simple: more focused classroom content and fewer unnecessarily large textbooks to lug between classes.

The online platform was initially offered in September 2012 via the UCSB Bookstore but, fueled by favorable feedback, quickly expanded to UCLA, the University of Oregon, Brown University and three other schools.

To date, more than 40 colleges and universities have signed up to use the fee-based program, which now boasts more than 8,000 student users.

The Santa Barbara-headquartered StudySoup strives to eliminate the frustrations of bulky course readers by allowing students and professors to annotate and highlight synced content in real-time online while also saving money that would have been spent on textbooks.

The name includes “soup” because the dish is considered a comfort food, Kozinsky said, which is exactly what the platform plans for— registered users choosing the most comfortable materials and tools to work with.

StudySoup cofounder and CEO Sieva Kozinsky demonstrates how his company’s online course reader platform works at his remote Summerland office. (Gina Potthoff / Noozhawk photo)

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Research

— Compiled from Staff, UCSB Public Affairs Reports, Noozhawk, and UCSB GradPost

International Security and Conflict Management

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Grad Spotlight: Ester Trujillo I hope to inspire my students. I hope that they will inspire others and that they will edify their communities and their families. I hope my students will erect, govern, and feed cities and nations. I hope I can help my students understand and defend human rights in any way they can.

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Ester Trujillo wants to bring out of the shadows a population she calls largely invisible: U.S. residents of Salvadoran descent. It saddens her to see this ethnic group portrayed as primarily impoverished, undocumented gang members.

Through her Ph.D. research, Trujillo is showing the impact immigrant histories have on second-generation Salvadoran-descent youth in college.

Latinas/os in Southern California are homogenized under a pan-ethnic umbrella that obscures generation, immigrant cohort, country of origin, class, race, and language practices among different groups.

Trujillo’s broader goal is to analyze the diasporic connections children of immigrants have to their parents’ homeland, to know how diasporic connections influence pan-ethnic constructions of ethno-racial identity.

Trujillo, a doctoral student in Chicana and Chicano Studies, is currently the Funding Peer Advisor at the Graduate Student Resource Center and Vice President of Communications and Records for the UCSB Graduate Students Association.

—Patricia Marroquin, GradPost Senior Writer Ester Trujillo attended a Mellon Mays graduate conference at Princeton University in 2011.

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Neil Narang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara, also serving as the Director of the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) Program at the University of California Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Professor Narang is currently working on projects in the area of international security and conflict management.

His first project investigates humanitarian assistance as a peacebuilding strategy in conflict and post-conflict states.

Professor Narang’s research shows that, contrary to what one may assume, humanitarian aid can have negative ramifications.

In a second project, Professor Narang and a colleague explore how international reputation matters in alliance politics. In his third project, Professor Narang and a colleague examine the causes and consequences of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation. In their research, they introduce a new dataset of biological and chemical weapons proliferations to determine whether such weapons can be considered a “poor man’s atomic bomb.”

Professor Narang will continue this line of research during the 2013-14 academic year at Stanford University.

Little Difference in Heavy Metal Pollutant Levels Between Fishes Living Around Southern California Oil Platforms and Natural Sites A recent study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, led by fish expert Milton S. Love, a research biologist with UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute, analyzed wholebody fish samples taken from oil-and-gas production platforms and natural sites for heavy metal pollutants. The results showed all but four elements were relatively consistent at both types of location.

Of 63 elements, 42 were excluded from statistical comparisons because they were not detected during analysis, were detected at concentrations too low to yield reliable quantitative measurements, or were deemed unlikely to accumulate to potentially toxic concentrations. None of the remaining 21 elements consistently exhibited higher concentrations at oil platforms than at natural areas.

Twenty-seven active and seven decommissioned offshore platforms are located within the study area. There is great debate about what to do with decommissioned platforms. The study says that while decommissioned oil platforms in Southern California have historically undergone complete removal, “recent ecological studies indicate that platforms provide artificial structure for marine life, including many fish species of recreational and commercial importance, and may contribute to rebuilding overfished stocks.”

Platform Gilda in the Santa Barbara Channel hosts a variety of marine life Photo: Scott Gietler

Reza Aslan talks 'Zealot,' the book which investigates the historical and political sides of Jesus Reza Aslan Ph.D. ’09 Sociology is a Muslim scholar of religion and a one-time Christian convert who’s just published a popular book about the life of Jesus.

It’s a portrait of the violent and changing times he lived in and the decades that preceeded the ill-fated rebellion of the Jews against the Roman Empire and the destruction of Jerusalem.

Aslan will be at UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. For more information and tickets, please go to artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

CCBER Vertebrate Collections Now Digitized CCBER’s (Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration) vertebrate collections are now completely digitized. This achievement is the result of the focused efforts of Curatorial Assistant Mireia Beas-Moix and several UC Santa Barbara student curatorial interns.

Over the last few years, there has been momentum growing in the natural history collections community to digitize collections from museums and related institutions all over the world. In the case of natural history collections, digitizing entails transferring data recorded on catalog cards and in field notebooks into digital collections. Often, specimens are scanned as well.

As a result of the digitization project, the information for each of the specimens from CCBER’s vertebrate collections—which includes 18,461 amphibians and reptiles, 3,513 mammals, and 9,356 birds—has been transferred into Specify, a collections management software application.

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Sports Men’s Water Polo

Right Moves at Nite Moves

The UCSB Team kicks off its 2013 campaign On Oct. 20, the No. 6 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos are scheduled to face off against the dangerous No. 5 California Golden Bears. One week after that match up, UCSB will be hosts to the 2012 NCAA Champion and first ranked USC, on Sunday Oct. 27 at noon.

The 2013 squad has a mix of youth and veterans on the team.

Despite the balance, the only senior on the team is Matt Gronow.

The Gauchos have a total of 10 freshmen, with three being redshirts. Along with the class of 2017, UC Santa Barbara has two junior transfers.

Women’s Soccer

UCSB Women’s Soccer Adds Calhoun to Coaching Staff Former Texas Christian University standout Jordan Calhoun has joined the UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer coaching staff, Head Coach Paul Stumpf announced.

“A number of people reached out to me about Jordan and it became pretty clear that she would be a great choice to join our coaching staff,” Stumpf said.

“Her work-ethic and character are outstanding, and on top of that she was a great college player and understands the game at a very high level.”

Calhoun was a four-year starter at Texas Christian University and led the Horned Frogs in goals and points in each of her four seasons, finishing with 36 career goals and 85 total points.

In addition to her exploits on the field, Calhoun was a two-time Academic All-Mountain West and two-time CoSIDA Academic AllDistrict choice. Also, following her senior season, she was selected the Bob Lilly TCU Female Athlete of the Year by the Greater Fort Worth Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

UCSB’s Alumni Association Associate Director John Lofthus made all the right moves at the Nite Moves 5K running events held every Wednesday evening from May through September at Ledbetter Beach in Santa Barbara. Lofthus warmed up in week 12 placing first with a time of 16:26. Week 15 saw a 3rd place and on Aug. 21, week 17, Lofthus again finished with another first with a time of 16:38.

Men’s Soccer

Baiden, Campion Crack Top Drawer Soccer’s Top 100 College Player Rankings Ahead of the 2013 season, Top Drawer Soccer released its annual Top 100 Men’s College Soccer Player Rankings, and a pair of Gaucho seniors in midfielder Fifi Baiden and forward Achille Campion were able to make the list.

Baiden was UC Santa Barbara’s highest ranked player at No. 38, while Campion checked in at No. 100.

A First Team All-Big West selection in 2012, Baiden has continuously displayed his credentials as one of the top defensive midfielders in collegiate soccer.

Campion appeared to be on his way to one of the most successful seasons by a forward in program history last year when he scored in five of his first six appearances out of the gate. However, injuries quickly derailed the Frenchman’s season, as he played in just one match past Sept. 16. Campion will be the focal point of the Gauchos offense in 2013.

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Milestones 1950s

1970s

Dr. George B. Primbs, ’51, has been presented the W.D. Sansum Award for distinguished service to the community. Dr. Primbs has been very active in nonprofit organizations and was a founding member of SEE International in 1974. Dr. Primbs is Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA Medical Center and a researcher at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of California. He has received many awards, including the Lions Sight and Hearing Award in 1994 and the Jules Stein Eye Institute Teaching Award at UCLA in 2003.

After a long and successful law career, Mariana Marin, ’71, retired as an attorney from the Office of the Legislative Counsel.

Paul Petrich, Jr., M.A. ’73, received the 2013 Volunteer of the Year award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for his contributions to maritime heritage and outreach programs of the Channel Islands National Maritime Sanctuary. Petrich has been volunteering with the Channel Islands National Maritime Sanctuary since 2006 and is a Santa Barbara resident.

Henry Chan, ’74, retired at the rank of captain (O-6) from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Chan served on active duty in the U.S. Army for 6 years and in the U.S. Public Health Service for 24 years.

1960s Ray Burch, ’64, plays for Quiksilver Le g e n d s a n d was selected All-Tournament Setter at the 2013 U.S. Open Volleyball Championships Men’s 70 & Over in Louisville, Ky., in May. Burch was on the first UC Santa Barbara Men’s Volleyball team in 1963.

Jeff Bridgeman, ’78, became the permanent pastor of El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Montecito. Bridgeman is currently finishing his term as the moderator of the Santa Barbara Presbytery of the Presbterian Church (USA). He is married to Carol (Pfiffner) Bridgeman, ’79.

Mike Cullinane, ’65, who plays for the Outback Steakhouse 70, was named MVP at the 2013 U.S. Open Volleyball Championships Men’s 70 & Over in May. He was on the first UC Santa Barbara Men’s Volleyball team in 1963.

1980s Arcadio Morales, ’81, is now Associate Director for Development and University Relations at Santa Clara University, where he is responsible for raising major gifts for the School of Engineering and the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Prior to that, Morales spent 20 years working in student affairs at Stanford University.

Julia R. Pierce, ’86, was awarded the 2013 David H. Fenig Distinguished Service in Advocacy Award by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association. The award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to

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the association’s advocacy. Pierce is also President at Pierce Capital and was a founding member and chair of the E L F A’ s S t a t e Government Relations Committee.

David Gomez, TEP, SST ’78, Ph.D. ’87, was elected Vice President of the Association of California School Administrators.

Steve Rodriguez ’88 and his wife, Lisa, welcomed their second son on April 20, 2013.

Coby Gage joins his big brother, Jax, 2. The family lives in Pleasanton, Calif. Steve is a vice president of Advantage Sales & Marketing’s Safeway team.

1990s Steve Fowler, ’90, opened Carson House, an upscale restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Matt Fratus, ’91, is the Director of Development for the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to his position as the Director of Development, Fratus served as the Major Gift Officer in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkley as well as the Director of Annual Fund and Alumni Relations in the College of Natural Resources.

Craig Butler, ’92, founded the Law Offices of Craig V. Butler, a full service corporate and securities law firm November 2013.

Barry Sanchez, ‘92, is currently the Director of Anacapa Surgical Associates and Director of Ventura Bariatrics.

Patricia (Mann) Flores, ’94, has been accepted to New York University for Fall 2013. She will be studying in the graduate Media, Culture and Communication program, specializing in Disability/Deaf Studies. Her previous graduate degree was from The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Material Culture, in 2007.

Barry Mendelson, ‘95, was honored in a San Francisco Giant’s pre-game ceremony at AT&T Park for being a

Phil DeMuth ’73 Grad Students Should Think Like CEOs, Not Serfs Dr. Phil DeMuth believes grad students should act more like CEOs. To get through the “enterprise” known as graduate school more efficiently, he says, students should demonstrate executive leadership and outsource the tasks that aren’t “mission critical.”

DeMuth wishes he had operated in this manner when he was a grad student at UC Santa Barbara in the 1970s, but it doesn’t seem to have hindered him.

The UC Santa Barbara valedictorian—

As Warren Buffett said to Ben Stein and me, “You want a job where you are smarter at the end of the day than you were at the beginning.” who holds two degrees from the campus (BA, Communication, 1972; MA, Communication, 1973) and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1977) from the Fielding Institute–today is a successful investment advisor to high-net-worth individuals; a coauthor of 10 books with actor-commentator-

testicular cancer survivor and community volunteer at Genentech’s annual Strike Out Cancer Day. Mendelson is the President and Founder of Elevation Wealth Management in Walnut Creek, Calif. He is on the board of the Cancer Support Community of the San Francisco Bay Area, Financial Planning Association of the East Bay, and founder of Chairs 4 Charity. He is married to Kristin Owles Mendelson (also class of ‘95) and they have two daughters (ages 7 and 9).

Jeremy Dillard, ’96, is the first recipient of the Maximo Mukelabai Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

This award recognizes a CPA under the age of 40 who has performed outstanding service toward the advancement, stewardship and promotion of the accounting profession and selfless contributions to the community.

John Hammond, ’96, M.A. ’06, Ph.D ’09, is now the Director of Development for the UC

investor Ben Stein; and a frequent guest on radio and TV shows speaking on financial topics.

During the many years he worked as a psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine, DeMuth longed to be an author. A flood of rejection letters drowned this dream, that is until his brother introduced him to economist Ben Stein. The obsession Stein and DeMuth shared for the stock market led to a successful book writing partnership. It was a natural progression for DeMuth to parlay the investment books into a business.

Today he is Managing Director of the Los Angeles-based investment advisory practice Conservative Wealth Management LLC. To read about DeMuth’s views and tenure at UC Santa Barbara, please go to his interview with Grad Divison’s Senior Writer Patricia Marroquin at http://gradpost.ucsb. edu/headlines/2013/8/21/gradstudents-should-think-like-ceos-notserfs-advises-ucsb.html

Santa Barbara Gervirtz Graduate School of Education. Preceding his position as Director of Development, Hammond was the Managing Director for Donor Relations and Stewardship.

Daniel Wilson, MESM ’98, and his company, Wilson Environmental Contracting, won the California Landscape Contractors Association Sustainable Project Award, the Santa Barbara Contractors Association Best Landscape Award, and, for the second year in a row, the CLCA’s prestigious Bob Baier Memorial Award for 2012.

Lysandra Cook, M.Ed. ’99, has been awarded tenure at the University of Hawaii. Cook has published on evidence-based practices in special education and contributes to UH’s teacher preparation program.

Left Phil DeMuth spoke about bears, but not the Wall Street kind, in his UCSB Commencement speech as valedictorian in 1972.

Below: Phil DeMuth, left, with his mentors, colleagues, and friends Warren Buffett and Ben Stein.

2000s Jorine (Lawyer) Campopiano, MESM ’00, went from working on wetlands and water issues at the U.S. EPA to serving as regional Schools Environmental Health Coordinator for the Children’s Health Program. She and her husband, Marc Campopiano, MESM ’00, also have a third baby boy, Joseph Maverick Campopiano.

Javier Garcia, ’00, was promoted to partner from senior manager.

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Milestones Larry Mouchawar ’85

Kristen Nesbit, ‘02, was one of 100 attorneys in the Los Angeles region selected

by Lawyers of Color for its inaugural Hot List. Nesbit is an associate at Fisher and Phillips Los Angeles.

Nesbit’s practice focuses on employment litigation and client counseling. ucsbgauchos.com

Larry Mouchawar ’85 Gaucho Water Polo Larry Mouchawar passed away in August 2013. Mouchawar was UC Santa Barbara’s only four-time All-American from 1980-84, where his teams made three appearances in the NCAA tournament. His 244 goal scoring record stood from 1985 to 2010.

Mouchawar was inducted into the Gaucho Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008. On that occasion he remarked “The relationships I built at UCSB have carried on to this day and will last for a lifetime.” Mouchawar bonded with players from the great 1979 National Championship Team and with generations of Gauchos extending to the present day. Falling into Mouchawar’s grasp, some 25 years after he graduated from campus pool, was a “who’s your daddy” moment for many a young freshman unfamiliar with this enormous, ageless, center forward. Olympian, All-American, and fellow Gaucho Greg Boyer noted that “Larry looked 10 years younger and played polo better than guys 20 years younger.” He was a Gaucho great whose competitive drive and love for water polo was an inspiration for generations of UC Santa Barbara water polo players. homebuilding sectors of the real estate sector, as well as the consumer products sector. He serves as the executive sponsor for the San Francisco College MAP program and sits on the board of the Accounting Career Awareness Program.

Jamie Goldstein, MESM ’00, was named 2012 Man of the Year by the Capitola-Soquel Chamber of Commerce. Goldstein, who serves as Capitola City Manager, was recognized for his work in “getting the city through its worst tragedy in decades,” after two floods destroyed several businesses and “left Capitola’s budget in a precarious situation.”

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development stage to large multinational entities, primarily in the technology and consumer products sectors. He worked in the firm’s Bay Area practice before transferring to San Diego in 2004.

Katie Keeler, ’02, welcomed her son Grayson James Shilling, at 1:13 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2013.

He joins big sister Emma, who just turned 2 in April.

In January 2013, Mark Kram, Ph.D. ’02, cochaired the ASTM International Symposium on Continuous Soil Gas Measurements: Worst Case Risk Parameters in Jacksonville, Fla. The conference followed from a paper Kram co-authored, titled “Dynamic Subsurface Explosive Vapor Concentrations: Observations and Implications,” published in the Journal of Remediation.

Jill Leafstedt, Ph.D. ‘02, has been awarded tenure at CSU Channel Islands.

Ann (Cavanaugh) Pattison, M.A. ’04, and her husband, Trevor, welcomed a daughter, Grace Taylor, on May 25, 2012. The family lives in Santa Barbara, where Ann was promoted to President of LufftUSA. Sarah Mulder Tetlow, ’04, gave birth to Keegan Metthew Tetlow on July 16, 2013. She and her family live in Martinez, Calif.

Carissa Klein, M ES M ’ 0 6 , won the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE), which includes a $25,000 cash prize for her body of work, which has addressed simultaneously the interests of fisheries conservation and the livelihoods of fishermen and others affiliated with the fishing industry.

She has also earned her Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Karen Setty, MESM ’07, works for the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project and has spent the past few years on a report titled Forty Years after the Clean Water Act: A Retrospective Look at the Southern California Ocean. It was released last October: http://bit. ly/13zI1Bc. After five years of sustainability consulting work at PE International, Margaret Zahller, M.A. ’07, relocated to Chicago for her new position as the Product Stewardship Manager at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. She also married Mike Enos in August 2013.

Leo Finley DuBuisson was born Nov. 11, 2012, to Max DuBuisson, MESM ’08, and Jennifer Miller DuBuisson, MESM ’08, in Redondo Beach, Calif. Max is Senior Policy Manager at the Climate Action Reserve, and Jen is

Carol Folt, ’76, M.A. ’78, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carol Folt took the reins as the public university’s first female chancellor on July 1, 2013. Previously, she was Provost and Interim President of Dartmouth College, where she had also served as a Professor of Biological Sciences. For more, see http://www.carolinaalumnireview.com/carolinaalumnireview/20130506#pg1

Associate Manager of global sustainability for Mattel, Inc. In December 2012, after three-plus years as associate director of conservation at American Rivers and a year as business development manager for The Climate Trust, Kavita Heyn, MESM ’08, became Sustainability Coordinator for the Portland Water Bureau in Oregon.

In September 2012, Marcy Protteau, MESM ’08, started a new job as a Technical Editor at Sonoma Technology, Inc., an air-quality and meteorology consulting firm in Petaluma, Calif.

Julie (Randall) Colbert, M.A. ’09, and her husband, Cort, welcomed their daughter, Shelby Rose, on Sept. 5, 2012. Julie is currently in her fifth year as the Water Quality Specialist for the Santa Ynez Chumash Environmental Office.

The California Lutheran University Class of 2013 honored Rahuldeep Gill, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’09, as one of two Cultural Diversity Professors of the Year. Gill was honored as Cultural Diversity Professor of the Year for the second time. He joined the faculty in 2009 and is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Associate Director of CLU’s Center for Equality and Justice. By sharing his background as a Sikh and Indian-born native of Boston and encouraging discussions in his classes, he broadens students’ perspectives, deepens their appreciation of diversity and inspires them to be more understanding and compassionate.

Genny (Cook) Lewis, ’09, recently celebrated her first anniversary to husband Stephen Lewis. The couple was ma r r i e d i n S i e r ra Madre, Calif., and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Lara Polansky, MESM ’09, received a temporary, four-month promotion at the U.S. Forest Service. She is leading a reorganization of the Sustainable Operations Program and building partnerships and capacity to enhance the agency’s progress on goals set forth by sustainability-related mandates.

2010s Andrea Blue, MESM ’11, and Michael Brown became parents to a baby girl, Emily Marie Brown, on Sept. 20, 2012. The couple married in May 2013.

Kristin Clark, Ph.D. ’11, was recently awarded a $252,000 grant from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization to study Forensic Detection of Homemade Explosives from Hair. “The project seeks to link users of readily available chemicals to nefarious devices, such as homemade explosives,” Clark says.

Aliana Lungo-Shapiro, M.A. ’11, recently took the title of Sustainability Manager at UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services. In that position, she develops new sustainability initiatives for staff and students in the residence halls, apartments, guest house, and conference center.

After working in Frank Davis’s lab and then interning with the National Audubon Society and Conservation International in Washington, D.C., Anderson Shepard, MESM ’11, has accepted a position as a Conservation Planning Associate for Defenders of Wildlife.

Last summer, Max Broad, MESM ’12, became a research analyst in the Biomass Technologies Office of the U.S. Department of Energy. He works on sustainable domestic biofuels and oversees redevelopment of the Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework, a DOE

website designed to advance bioenergy research.

John Ellis, MESM ’12, was hired by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to serve as a Research Fellow on a four-year project. He will earn his Ph.D. while researching topics relating to multitrophic aquaculture and corporate social responsibility in salmon farming. Ellis and his family will move to Norway this summer for a year.

Theresa Nogeire, MESM ’06, Ph.D. ’12, and her husband, Brad McRae, welcomed their daughter, Eliza, to the world on Sept. 1, 2012.

Jennifer Price, MESM ’12, has relocated from California to Alabama to pursue her Ph.D. in Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. She is fully funded and working on an adaptive management project for white tail deer in the state.

After graduating, Mike Schwartz, MESM ’12, returned to New York City, where he is working at CINCS (pronounced syncs), a start up that is designing a software tool to help organizations manage their impacts on natural resources.

In August 2012, Danielle Storz, MESM ’12, was married to Matthew Scott, a general contractor in Santa Barbara.

Mayra Alcala, ’08, M.Ed ’13, completed her master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Organizations at UC Santa Barbara.

Former UC Santa Barbara defender Emilia Norlin, ‘13, is playing for Sweden in the FIL Women’s Lacrosse World Cup in Oshawa, Canada.

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In Memoriam Bob Dolan died at the age of 59. He was born in San Francisco, and the family moved to Santa Barbara during his teen years. He graduated from San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara and attended UC Santa Barbara, where he worked with ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet. He was a serial entrepreneur and founded at least 10 companies, including ComDesign, CallWave, and Cogi. He often gave his time to help other entrepreneurs. Survivors include sons Sam, Charles, and William.

Ellis Englesberg, UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus of molecular biology, died May 14, 2013. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 19, 1921. Englesberg attended Brooklyn College and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 20. After military service, he studied at UC Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. in Bacteriology in 1952. In 1965, Englesberg joined UC Santa Barbara as a Professor of Molecular Biology until his retirement in 1990. Ellis became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, nominated for his pioneering research in molecular biology and genetics. He is survived by his wife, Gail Embree, and children Barbara, Paul, and Helen.

Nancy McCagney, M.A. ’84, Ph.D. ’91, died April 28, 2013. She was born on June 10, 1941 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised on Long Island. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and received a master’s degree in Philosophy in 1971. After college, she lived in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne. She taught at UC Santa Barbara, CSU Chico, University of Delaware, and others. After she retired, she settled in Mendocino, Calif., before returning to Santa Barbara. Survivors include her sisters Jane and Midge.

Joshua Canning, ’00, died July 9, 2013, of injuries sustained in an accident. He was 44. A 1987 graduate of Santa Barbara High School, Canning went on to Santa Barbara City College and UC Santa Barbara, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in Environmental Studies. He was employed by the City of Santa Barbara as a Senior Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator since 2007. He is survived by his sister, Allison Canning Curtis; his mother, Patricia Canning; and his father, Joseph Canning.

Do You Have A Relative Currently Attending UCSB? Encourage Them to Apply for the Alumni Legacy Scholarship.

Given your relative currently attending UC Santa Barbara is a UC Santa Barbara Legacy, following in the footsteps of others in your family who have attended UC Santa Barbara, the UCSB Alumni Association is honored to inform you of an exciting scholarship opportunity.

As a result of financial contributions by members of the UCSB Alumni Association, the UCSB Alumni Association board of directors annually provides the Alumni Legacy Scholarship. The scholarship was created specifically to recognize legacy students who demonstrate a commitment to the excellence of UC Santa Barbara and the community through academic achievements, leadership, and involvement in campus clubs and organizations. Awards of $1,000 per student are annually presented to selected recipients to assist with tuition costs.

If your relative currently attending UC Santa Barbara has completed and received grades for 12 or more units while in residence at UC Santa Barbara by Nov. 25, 2013, please encourage them to apply. Visit the Alumni Legacy Scholarship web website at ucsbalum.com/programs/scholarships/legacy.

The application deadline is Nov. 25, 2013.

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Love of Teammates Inspires Gift Donn Bernstein, Honorary Alumnus ’79

“Knowing my gift will support future student athletes makes this just as much a gift to me as to the university. I can’t think of a better reason to share what I’ve been given.”

Donn loves sports. In fact, he served as UC Santa Barbara’s first full-time sports information director and is credited with raising the profile of UCSB football the year the team played in the 1965 Camellia Bowl.

Donn was interested in how he could create a legacy to support future student athletes. In conversation with the Planned Giving Office, he elected to name the campus as sole beneficiary of one of his retirement plans. His gift honors Jim and Cheryl Barber ’67/’66 by naming the Academic & Student Success Center in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building.

This giving vehicle provides Donn the maximum flexibility with his estate assets—these funds remain available for his use should he need them. In the event he doesn’t, these funds will pass to the campus to create an endowed scholarship to support future student athletes in perpetuity.

“My decision to support athletics and student athletes through my retirement plan is a direct reflection of my gratitude to the campus and a love of my teammates,” Donn says.

If you are interested in learning more about how making a gift through your estate can help to meet your financial and charitable goals, please contact: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director Office of Development at (805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email plannedgiving@ia.ucsb.edu.

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