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UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Winter 2013 Vol. 43, No. 2
FEATURES
4 Sparking Innovation: UC Santa Barbara’s Start-Up Culture 9 UCSB and Goleta Collaborate on Entrepreneurial Magnet 10 Harvey Schechter: A Champion for UC Santa Barbara
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14 Around Storke Tower 15 BY THE NUMBERS 16 research roundup 17 SPORTS 20 meet the 2012-2013 Alumni Scholarship recipients 22 Milestones: ’40s to the Present
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SPARKING INNOVATION
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By Shelly Leachman
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nterprise has long thrived at UC Santa Barbara, where scholars past and present have created or contributed to scores of businesses over the years. The campus has a tradition of entrepreneurship, and a rich history of impacting industry with its research-based innovations. In this era of technology-driven entrepreneurship and industry’s incessant search for the next big thing, UC Santa Barbara is fostering exactly the kind of innovation that fits the bill. From birds to Bluetooth, and produce to polymers, start-up culture has taken hold here with newfound fervor, as student-shepherded efforts take center stage and even fledgling companies stockpile accolades, contest wins, grants, and investors.
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UCSB Fosters the Entrepreneurial Spirit
UC Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program to Offer Graduate Degrees
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More than 90 local companies have been founded by UC Santa Barbara graduates and faculty and more than 15 companies have come out of the Technology Management Program.
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Joined onstage by a live falcon to help prove their product, the team of UC Santa Barbara alumni behind bird-identification app Birdeez took a top award at last fall’s DEMO conference, a prestigious Silicon Valley pitch competition. So landed another proverbial feather in the cap of UC Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program TMP LECTURE (TMP). The Birdeez group — at the SERIES time still students — won TMP’s http://www.tmp. ucsb.edu/outreach/ New Venture Competition mere lecture_series.html months earlier, earning acclaim and cash to go with their potentially viable business. Future TMP-bred winners of the popular campus start-up contest may walk away with another prize still: a master’s degree. After a years-long push, the 1998-launched TMP has been granted academic-unit status, and will begin offering graduate degrees as soon as 2014. The one-year master’s track is described as “akin to an MBA for engineers.” “It’s going to be very similar to a degree you’d get at a business school, but we’re not creating a copycat program. We’re trying to do something very innovative,” said Bob York, TMP’s director and a professor of electrical and computer engineering. “This is a management program for scientists and engineers. We’re living in a real technical world with a real need for tech leaders — people who are not just creating the technologies but actually delivering them to market — and we feel this is a space that’s not being served right now. This is a real opportunity for us to create a very unique program that will be training the technical leaders of the future.
“We’re empowering the scientists and engineers to become the leaders and innovators,” York added. “I think that’s a big step, and an important one.” The new endeavor formalizes what TMP has been doing all along: breeding such leaders — and start-ups — by instilling in students of all levels, and from all disciplines, the savvy and skills required to run a business. Offering courses, lectures, networking events, and mentoring, TMP provides tech-specific education in entrepreneurship and management. The New Venture Competition (NVC) is perhaps its most high-profile component, and catalyst to UC Santa Barbara success stories past and present. Mature companies including Phone Halo, which develops Bluetooth-based tracking devices for personal items such as keychains and wallets, and portable-oxygen innovator Inogen made their first splash as NVC winners. Phone Halo was a 2009 awardee; Inogen came even earlier, in 2001. Besides Birdeez, 2012 NVC champs (the contest has multiple categories) brightblu and aPEEL Technology recently earned some wider-world accolades of their own. Home automation company brightblu finished in the top three at the fall Plug and Play Expo, an esteemed, investorattended start-up contest. And aPEEL creator James Rogers scored a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance his invention — a molecular, waterbased camouflage for crops that can extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. “It just goes to show that the entrepreneurs we graduate aren’t just prepared — they can go toe to toe with anyone,” Jeff Simeon, at lectern, Thomas Kuo, left, and Patrick Toerner, right, together founded Birdeez, a bird-identifying iPhone app that won the 2012 New Venture Competition. Photo courtesy of TMP. The Birdeez app helps users identify some 80 species of birds in California, with national support soon to follow.
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Left to right: Alex Eisenhart, Cassity Ming, Irina Tolpygo, Diana Doyle, director Bob York and manager Mike Panesis of UCSB's Technology Management Program. Credit: Rod Rolle. Inset: Stephen Cooper, ‘68, member of TMP’s advisory board
said Mike Panesis, TMP’s manager. “The word technology means what you do with what you know. It’s not about electronics or chemistry or being able to build things, but taking what you’ve learned, the knowledge you’ve gained, and doing something with it. And that’s what we specialize in.” By helping to prepare student founders to not only interface with investors, but to actually run a business that gets off the ground, TMP is often central to the early success of such start-ups. Its vibrant training program fosters the acumen and varied skill set required of entrepreneurs. In short, TMP plays a key role in getting student start-ups and their creators ready for a larger stage. “TMP teaches teamwork, which is what much of corporate business is all about in product development today. It used to be individual contributors. Now it’s teams,” said Stephen Cooper, ’68, a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation, and a longtime member of TMP’s advisory board, who has had a successful career as an entrepreneur. “That’s a great contribution by TMP, and it’s been beneficial in many ways, especially in science and engineering, where communication skills tend to be less emphasized. “It doesn’t matter if you’re going to be an entrepreneur or work in a large corporation — the skills that you learn here give you an understanding of business that’s invaluable,” added Cooper, who provided the seed money on which Inogen was founded, and remains on the company’s board. “I believe that the degree program will bring financial resources to the university that otherwise would not be invested. I think we have something to promote for the university that makes it stand out and will attract donors.” The greatest student success stories are taking their inventions to market, creating new revenue streams and new jobs. For many of them, TMP has been an irreplaceable — if under-the-radar — launch pad. “The approval of this graduate program is a huge thing, and I think it’s going to be a turning point,” said Craig 6
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Cummings, a 1972 engineering grad and regular TMP entrepreneur-in-residence, who now chairs the Central Coast chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. “It’s been a good program all along but never really had much recognition. This gives it that, and provides much greater incentive to students to want to pursue this because they’ll have something to show for it. That’s huge. And I think it will be huge from a community standpoint as well. UCSB has always been the center of activity for tech-driven start-ups on the central coast. Their list of success stories is already long and impressive, and with this degree, it will just become more so.” And that’s the hope for TMP and all the aspiring entrepreneurs it serves — that they leave UC Santa Barbara with a degree as well as the necessary skills to succeed in business, if not a budding business of their own. “Students at UCSB are forward-thinking and excited to commercialize their technology ideas,” said Rod Alferness, the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering. “TMP has been enabling this innovation for years, and now the official academic TMP unit and the master’s program provide a critical element that integrates engineering and business fundamentals so our students can make an impact in the world.” Technology Management Program New Venture Competition New Venture Fair 5:30-8:30 p.m. April 24 Corwin Pavilion New Venture Competition Finals 3-7 p.m. May 17 Corwin Pavilion The semi-final Venture Fair and Finals competition have become integral events in the local entrepreneurial business community, and winners of the New Venture Competition have a track record of launching successful new ventures. For more information, see www.tmp.ucsb.edu/nvc/
Alumni Business Venture Profiles
Here are a few of the start-ups launched by UC Santa Barbara alumni, many of them associated with the Technology Management Program's New Venture Competition. If you want to let us know about your startup, go to http://ucsb.imodules.com/startup
ACTIVE LIFE SCIENTIFIC INC. Founders: Paul Hansma, Davis Brimer, ’07, and Alex Proctor, ’07 The Active Life BioDent System is the world’s first Translational Indentation System, a technology that quantifies the integrity of diseased or deteriorated human tissues. The device measures biomechanical properties similar to those from a dynamic, instrumented indentation system, but with previously impossible in vivo applications.
Birdeez enables bird watchers to locate and identify birds using size, shape and color information, receive alerts about rare-bird sightings in their area, and save and share their information. The tagline for Birdeez is “Every Bird Counts.” Birdeez can only be used in California, but a national version is coming soon. A winner of the 2012 TMP New Venture Competition
A winner of the 2007 TMP New Venture Competition
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BIRDEEZ Founders: Jeffrey Simeon, MES ’12, Patrick Toerner, ’12, and Thomas Kuo, M.S. ’06
Founders: Ben Chang, ’12, Arshad Haider, ’12, Taylor Umphreys, ’12, and Siddhant Bhargava, ’12 Brightblu Inc. is creating a mobile solution to home automation, making it accessible to any smartphone user. Its first product, otto, is a Bluetooth-enabled smartplug that allows users to turn on or off appliances, dim lights, set up timers and profiles, and read the power consumption of any device
that’s plugged into it. A winner of the 2012 TMP New Venture Competition
COMPUTER MOTION and INTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES Founder: Yulun Wang, Ph.D. ’88 Computer Motion pioneered the use of surgical robots with the first FDA-cleared surgical robot. After Computer Motion merged with Intuitive Surgical, Wang established InTouch Technologies, which develops and manufactures telemedicine remote presence medical devices for active patient monitoring in high acuity clinical environments. These devices allow physicians to conduct highly reliable, realtime, remote consults from a single portal at locations ranging from EDs, ICUs and procedure rooms to patient wards, clinics, ambulances, and homes.
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greater sensitivity and permits analysis of more markers for the investigation and management of diseases like HIV and leukaemia, providing more meaningful information about disease earlier.
INOGEN Founders: Brenton Taylor, ’03, Alison Perry, ’03, and Byron Myers, ’01 Inogen is a Goleta-based business that manufactures a portable oxygen concentrator for lung-disease patients. The suitcase-size oxygen generator is designed for those who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Inogen One is a lightweight answer to bulky stationary systems that tether people to their homes and air tanks that need to be refilled every couple hours. A winner of the 2001 TMP New Venture Competition
A winner of the 2003 TMP New Venture Competition
PHONE HALO Founders: Chris Herbert, ’09 and Christian Smith, ’08 Phone Halo offers item tracking software that helps people manage their valuable belongings. From keys to smartphones to Bluetooth headsets and more, Phone Halo creates effortless solutions to break the cycle of loss and misplacement. Phone Halo works with consumer brands to bring item-tracking technology to their products or enable them to create new products. A winner of the 2009 TMP New Venture Competition
LAFFSTER Founders: Eric Posen, ’10, Dan Altmann, and Geoffrey Plitt Laffster offers both a web and mobile app presence for organizing humorous online content based on personal preferences and “learns” what you think is funny. Laffster uses research from neuroscientists and psychologists to help understand how to classify the different aspects of humor. 8
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SIRIGEN Founders: Brent Gaylord, Ph.D. ’04, and Patrick Dietzen, ’07 Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen’s amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. High Sensitivity Fluorescence provides
TRANSPHORM Founders: Primit Parikh, M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’98, and Umesh Mishra From material technology and device fabrication to circuit design and module assembly, Transphorm designs and delivers its power conversion devices and modules to meet the needs of global customers. Transphorm manufactures ultraefficient power conversion modules built using proprietary Gallium Nitride based technology.
UCSB Partners Up With GEM to Promote Start-ups Renee Lowe, Coastlines staff
“ GEM, Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet, is the first collaboration between UC Santa Barbara, the city of Goleta, and the Goleta Chamber of Commerce intended to help strengthen the local economic vitality by providing support for new and growing entrepreneurs. Launched in 2012, GEM is a collaborative effort between the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, City of Goleta and University of California, Santa Barbara. The vision of GEM is to have Goleta Valley recognized as a world-class center of excellence for entrepreneurial technological development and growth. GEM will strengthen and sustain the economic vitality of Goleta Valley through job creation and retention. “Our name is UC Santa Barbara, but our neighbor is Goleta and we’ve always been appreciative of the whole Goleta area in terms of their support for our technology and our start-ups,” said Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas. The initiative benefits UC Santa Barbara students by creating a better environment for graduating students and anyone in search of careers. “Our multiple missions in the University of California are teaching, research and public service,” Lucas said. “By supporting start-ups we do two of those, we take research done at UCSB and convert it to a public good.” Lucas said about four to six startups come out of UC Santa Barbara each year, and many entrepreneurs want to live and grow their business Gene Lucas in Goleta. The start-ups created at UC Santa Barbara will bring high quality jobs to the community and help stimulate the economic vitality of Goleta. “GEM is a great way to engage alumni, because many of the start-up businesses in Goleta are Gaucho grown,
By supporting start-ups… we take research done at UCSB and convert it to a public good.
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with UCSB alumni and faculty working with UCSBbased technologies,” said John Lofthus, associate director of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association, who is working with the GEM committee as the program is being developed. “The idea of being able to create meaningful engagement between experienced, seasoned entrepreneurs and those who are just starting the process is invaluable. If we can be a part of that, and help them with that, we can increase the strength of UCSB connections.” The first step to GEM is to create a website that integrates the resources of business, education and government. The website will provide a web-based community where entrepreneurs can connect and network with each other. The website should be able to help Goleta entrepreneurs — from finding the perfect commercial property lease to finding a work force. “GEM provides UCSB with an important collaboration, linking our start-ups and entrepreneurs to representatives on the board and the chamber and the city,” Lucas said. “Together we can build a support network for our new companies that contribute to the economic vitality and quality of life in Goleta Valley.” Phase 2 of GEM, the creation of a website and new programs began in Fall of 2012. Although GEM focuses on bring together entrepreneurs through technology, that is not the only necessity for the success of GEM. “It’s us, the people involved, the connections we make with each other, the communication and collaboration between us that will truly power success. The magnet drawing us together in GEM starts today,” Kristen Miller, CEO of the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, said.
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Devoted Alum Harvey Schecter, ‘47, Bleeds UCSB Blue and Gold By Shelly Leachman, UCSB Office of Public Affairs The knowledge box on the hill. So goes Harvey Schechter’s favored idiom for his alma mater, an apt description adopted from a co-worker during his bellhop days at the former Carrillo Hotel in downtown Santa Barbara. It was the early 1940s, and what would soon become UC Santa Barbara was still a 14-acre Riviera campus called Santa Barbara State College. First enrolling in 1942, Schechter earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1947 — one of 122 graduates that spring — just three years after the school was incorporated into the University of California system. Fast forward 56 years and Schechter, 89, remains actively involved. He is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association (and former member of its board of directors), and, since 1996, a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation. As a pledge of their mutual belief in and devotion to the university, Schechter and his wife of 57 years, Hope, included the campus in their estate plans: 80 percent of their estate will be left to UC Santa Barbara, earmarked for need-based scholarships. Schechter is also among the UC Santa Barbara’s most devoted and outspoken champions, singing its praises and advocating for its advancement to fellow alumni, to students both present and prospective — even to complete strangers. He can’t help but effuse at every opportunity about the university he (half) jokingly refers to as Hope’s “love rival.” “What is it about Santa Barbara?” Schechter asked rhetorically. “It’s ethereal. It puts a spring in your step. I can’t document it, but I know that with pride I say, ‘UC Santa Barbara.’ 10
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“What Chancellor Yang has done here is remarkable. I’ve told people I don’t think I could get in today, and I was an A student. These kids today are so smart. And the things they’re doing in science and literature and art and music, my god. I’m overwhelmed by what UCSB has become.” Schechter arrived in Santa Barbara in 1941, a sickly kid from Brooklyn sent to recuperate from rheumatic fever in the West’s clean air and warm weather. He lived at La Loma Feliz, a private ranch school run by a local doctor his parents found through the New York Heart Association. He finished high school and tended the horses. When he started college, he rode one of those horses, a mare
named Chica, to campus. It was a surreal existence for a big city boy whose only previous exposure to horses were those he saw in movies. “I thought about my brother, who went to college in New York City by subway — a hole in the ground — while I was on a horse riding beautiful Mission Canyon,” Schechter recalled with a laugh. “My bad heart gave me a real leg up.” “I’ve said to people that being on the campus at that time was like being in heaven and still being alive. It was wonderful,” Schechter said. “In the 1930s, Hollywood made movies about college life. I was living it in the 1940s — beach parties, small classes. Some of the buildings here are named after my professors. Girvetz, Ellison, Buchanan — these were my professors. We had 20, 25 to a class. It was magnificent.” Fond memories of his college days flow free and easy from Schechter, whose effusive enthusiasm for Santa Barbara has deep roots. As an active student passionate about his campus, Schechter was “one of the reactionaries” who pitched a collective and vocal fit when school color and mascot changes were proposed. To better align with the UC system, he said, it was suggested that Santa Barbara’s green and white be swapped out for blue and gold, its Gaucho replaced with a Cub. “There were arguments to the student council, letters to the editor of the student paper — big fight,” Schechter said. “Finally someone came up with a compromise: ‘If you’ll take blue and gold, they will accept Gauchos.’ We said, ‘You got a deal.’” He was getting a good deal himself. In those days, a public college education was truly available to anyone who wanted it. Tuition essentially didn’t exist; students needed only to pay a registration fee that Schechter said amounted to $17 per semester. “When I said to one of the trustees, ‘My school at Santa Barbara was free,’ she said, ‘It wasn’t free, Harvey. Somebody paid for it.’ That really registered with me,” he said. “So Hope and I wrote our wills so that the bulk of our money goes to the UC Santa Barbara Foundation to help needy students. “How could I not make available to some kid I don’t know what was done for me by people who didn’t know me?
Everything was free — free in the sense that those who participated didn’t have to pay. The $17 registration fee covered athletic events, health coverage, everything — $17.” Giving back to the campus that gave him so much was a no-brainer, Schechter said. Though he went on to earn a master’s degree from UCLA and a decadeslong career with the Anti-Defamation League, retiring in 1993 as its Western States director emeritus, it is his time at UC Santa Barbara that he refers to as “the happiest, most wonderful” of his life, a “wonderful, fantastic, unreal existence.” On the invitation of Chancellor Yang, Schechter spoke to a group of UC Santa Barbara applicants at an event in Los Angeles last spring. Agreeing to impart two minutes of wisdom, he told the Gaucho hopefuls: “If you go to Santa Barbara, you will benefit. Here I am getting very old, and I’m still benefitting from what Santa Barbara gave me. There is a cache that Santa Barbara has that nobody else has. Decades from now, if you come here, you will say, ‘Remember that bald guy who told us we should come here? Boy was he right.’” Facing page: Harvey Schechter worked as a bellhop at Santa Barbara’s Carrillo Hotel while studying at UCSB. Photo courtesy of Harvey Schechter. This page, left: Harvey Schechter graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1947. Photo courtesy of Harvey Schechter. Above: Harvey and Hope Schechter. Credit: George Foulsham
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Scholar Named to Treasury Department Advisory Committee on Financial Research Jean-Pierre Fouque, professor of statistics and applied probability at UC Santa Barbara and director of the campus’s Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics has been named to the Office of Financial Research’s Financial Research Advisory Committee. The 30-member committee includes two Nobel laureates in economics; leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors; and prominent researchers from major universities and think tanks. The Office of Financial Research, established through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by President Obama in 2010, is charged with improving the quality, transparency and accessibility of financial data and information.
UC Santa Barbara Among 10 Campuses Producing Peace Corps Volunteers UC Santa Barbara is now number 10 on Peace Corps’ 2013 Top Colleges. UCSB also ranks third among large California schools for 2013. There are currently 76 UCSB undergraduate alumni serving overseas. Historically, 1,595 UCSB Alumni have served as Peace Corps volunteers since the organization’s 1961 inception.
Gale Morrison Named Acting Dean of Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Former Graduate Division Dean Gale Morrison has been named acting dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School. Morrison will serve as dean for the period when Dean Jane Close Conoley serves as acting chancellor of UC Riverside while that campus conducts its national search for its next chancellor. Morrison retired in June of 2012 and served as dean of UCSB’s Graduate Division for more than seven years.
President Yudof to Step Down UC President Mark Yudof announced that he will step down, effective Aug. 31, 2013. Yudof has been UC President for five years and will return to UC Berkeley as a law professor. He cites health reasons behind his decision to end his tenure. “UC remains the premier public university system in the world, and I was both honored and humbled to serve as its president for what has been nearly five years now,” Yudof said in a statement.
Researcher Receives Academy Award for Technical Achievement UC Santa Barbara researcher Theodore Kim helped create a new smoke-andfire visual effects technique. Kim and three colleagues received an Academy Award in Technical Achievement for inventing the simulation method known as wavelet turbulence. Wavelet turbulence has been used in “Super 8,” “Avatar,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Hugo.” Kim becomes the first sitting UCSB faculty member to earn an Oscar. UCSB’s Theodore Kim gives his acceptance speech at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards. Credit: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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By the numbers ‘UCSB Reads’ Picks ‘Moonwalking With Einstein’ by Joshua Foer “Moonwalking With Einstein—The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” covers Foer’s journey towards building his memory after covering the 2005 USA Memory Championship in Manhattan for Slate magazine as a journalist. An annual winter quarter event, UCSB Reads engages the campus and the community in conversations about a key topic while reading the same book. UCSB Reads is presented by the UCSB Library in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor. For more information, see http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/ UCSBreads.
62,402
number of applications received from prospective first-year students.
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average grade-point average of all freshmen applicants.
13,637
number of applications for transfers received.
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applications from underrepresented minority groups for Fall 2013.
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percent of all applicants for the UCSB freshman class who are members of a racial or ethnic minority group.
11,987 Exhibition Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation “Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation as a Social Movement,” an exhibition in the Department of Special Collections at the UC Santa Barbara Library, highlights the long history behind the Emancipation Proclamation. The exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of this important document, and takes a look at the circumstances under which it was issued, and its impact on those who opposed and supported slavery as an institution. The exhibition, which is drawn from the vast holdings of the library’s William Wyles Collection, begins with an overview of slavery and its importance to the economy of the South and of the Confederacy. Bills of sale for the purchase of slaves demonstrate their value as property to white southerners, noted John Majewski, professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and co-curator of the exhibition. The exhibition continues through April 30. Maria Fedorova and John Majewski. Top right: “The Little Contraband,” Lithograph Courtesy of the William Wyles Collection, UCSB Library.
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percent the number of non-resident applications jumped over last year.
UC Santa Barbara Ranked Among Best Values in Public Universities UC Santa Barbara has moved up three spots in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance 2012-13 list of 100 best values in public colleges and universities. The annual ranking cites four-year schools that combine outstanding education with economic value. UC Santa Barbara is now ranked No. 14. Other UC campuses in the top 25 include UCLA at No. 6; UC Berkeley at No. 8; UC San Diego at No. 10; UC Irvine at No. 17; and UC Davis at No. 23. www.ucsbalum.com
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Marine Scientists Receive Multimillion-Dollar NSF Grants to Fund Long-Term Research The Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research and the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research programs have each received close to $1 million per year for the next four to six years from the National Science Foundation. The grants are intended to fund the long-term research Jellyfish Experts Show Blooms Part of Periodic Global Oscillations in the ecology of kelp forests and coral Recent media reports have created a perception that jellyfish blooms may be reefs. There are 25 sites funded by the increasing in the world’s oceans, but a new international study conducted at UC National Science Foundation in the U.S. Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis suggests that Long Term Ecological Research network there is no evidence for proof of a global increase in jellyfish over the past two and two are led by UC Santa Barbara centuries. The findings of the group foretell recurrent phases of rise and fall in scientists. jellyfish populations that society should be prepared to face. Research technician Cori Kane conducts a survey of fish on the outer reef along the north shore of Moorea. Photo by Keith Seydel.
Moon jellyfish in Japan. Photo: Steve Haddock.
Extinction Rates Made California a Refuge for Diverse Plant Species The diversity of California’s plant life is the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study conducted at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The new findings highlight the importance of California as a refuge for plant species that might have gone extinct in other regions during the climatic shifts that occurred in the distant past. Coyote Ridge in Santa Clara County. The plants are Layia playglossa (yellow daisies), Lasthenia gracilis (needle goldfields), Cryptantha, Eschscholzia californica (California poppy), and Dichelostemma capitatum. Photo by Jenn Yost
Study Suggests ‘Universal’ Personality Traits May Not Be Universal After All A study by anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara raises doubt about the previously agreed upon group of five personality traits, also known as the five-factor model. Their findings appear in a recent issue of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The anthropologists studied the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in central Bolivia and found they did not necessarily exhibit the five broad dimensions of personality — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Instead, they discovered more evidence of a “Big Two” — pro sociality and industriousness. Michael Gurven (left) and Christopher Von Rueden studied Tsimane personality traits. Photo: Rod Rolle.
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SPORTS
Women’s Volleyball
Kathy Gregory Announces Retirement After Storied 38-Year Coaching Career
Women’s Water Polo
No. 13 Gauchos Defeat Redlands Senior Kacey Creek and freshman Samantha Murphy led the team with four goals each in UC Santa Barbara’s victory over University of Redlands on Feb. 8. UC Santa Barbara was able to get out to a 4-2 lead after the first quarter and took off from there. The Gauchos tallied six goals in the second quarter to continue their lead at half time 8-2. Freshman Mackenzie Brokaw kept the Bulldogs score to a minimum, only allowing six goals in during the second half. The Gauchos were able to cruise to a victory with an additional nine goals during the third and fourth period, sealing their win against the Bulldogs, 17-8. Rachel Nelson made two goals in the game against Redlands.
In other news … UCSB Leads National Soccer Attendance for Sixth Year Thanks to the best fans in men’s college soccer, UC Santa Barbara has earned the title of NCAA Division I national attendance leader for the sixth consecutive year. The men’s soccer team hosted nine home matches during the 2012 campaign with a grand total of 49,885 fans at Harder Stadium, an average of 5,543 fans per game. UCSB Softball Wins Tournament Double Header. UC Santa Barbara (3-0) took both games of a double header on Feb. 8 against Wichita State (0-1) and Louisiana Monroe (1-1) at the Mardi Gras Classic. Chris Pontius, ’08, D.C. United’s longest tenured player, earned the 2012 Volkswagen Most Valuable Player Award, Volkswagen Fans’ Choice Award, Volkswagen Goal of the Year and the club’s Golden Boot. Andy Iro, ’08, returned to London to play professional soccer with League One side Stevenage. He later joined League Two side Barnet on loan in November 2012. Iro played on the 2006 NCAA national championship team while at UC Santa Barbara. Skip Schumaker, ’01, was acquired by the Dodgers from the St. Louis Cardinals. He has a .278 average with three home runs and six RBI in 22 postseason games.
Kathy Gregory, UC Santa Barbara’s only women’s volleyball head coach ever, announced her retirement, ending her 38-year career in which she amassed 882 wins, the fifth most in NCAA Division history, and a winning percentage of .681, the highest all-time among UC Santa Barbara Kathy Gregory coaches of any sport. Nicole Lantagne Welch, who guided the University of Miami (Fla.) women’s volleyball program to five NCAA Tournaments, one Sweet 16 and 243 wins over 12 seasons, was named head coach of the UC Santa Barbara program. Lantagne Welch was named Atlantic Coast Conference Coach and AVCA East Region Coach of the Year in 2012, after her team went 25-6 overall and won a school record 17 games in ACC play.
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Gauchos Win Thriller, Break Losing Streak UC Santa Barbara Men’s Volleyball team broke their six game losing streak against UC San Diego on Feb. 1. The game witnessed 32 score times and 10 lead changes throughout. The Gauchos scratched to a close first set win led by Jake Staahl and Dylan Davis. UC Santa Barbara dropped the second set but came out strong in the third set, eventually pulling away and winning in the fourth. Middle blocker senior Dylan Davis set a season high with 14 kills with a hitting percentage of .591.
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2012-13 UC Santa Barbara Alumni Scholarship Fund Recipients
Cassidy Copeland
James Hoang
Jeff Kim,
Miguel Magana
Alexandra Malarecka
is a third-year student at
grew up in Hawthorne,
a third-year student
is a third-year at UC
is currently studying Art
UC Santa Barbara and is
Calif., in Los Angeles
at UC Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara and is
in the College of Creative
majoring in Linguistics
County. He is a second-
is currently pursuing
majoring in Economics
Studies, focusing on
while preparing for a
year Biology major with a
a double major in
and Accounting. He is
Book Arts. As a Book Art
semester abroad next
current GPA of 3.81. His
Biopsychology and
the first from his family
major, she studies the
year in France. She has
professional aspirations
Pharmacology. His GPA
to attend a four-year
relationship between
made the Dean’s List
include attending
is 3.73. He was born
university and is currently
word and image in
three times in her first
medical school and
in West Covina and
maintaining a 3.97 GPA.
addition to printmaking
two years of study.
becoming a radiologist.
grew up in La Canada
He is set to graduate
and book binding.
Copeland grew up in a
Hoang states, “I greatly
Flintridge, a quiet
a year early and hopes
Originally from Berkeley,
small town in Western
appreciate all of the
suburb in Los Angeles
to pursue a career in
Calif., Malarecka would
Kentucky where her
UCSB alumni and friends
County. Kim hopes
accounting. Magana
like to pursue a career
parents ran a small music
who have donated to
to pursue a career
thanks the donors to
as a graphic designer.
and literature store
this fund for helping
in pharmacological
the UC Santa Barbara
She credits her passion
for the past 27 years.
current students through
research.
Alumni Scholarship
for art to the experience
She learned there the
this hard time of budget
Fund as the scholarship
of being raised in a
value of hard work in a
cuts.”
has “helped relieve the
creative and academically
very challenging retail
financial burdens I have
centered environment.
environment. She enjoys
accumulated while
the study of foreign
pursuing a degree from
languages, travel, and
UCSB.”
literature.
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UCSB Alumni Scholarship Fund The UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association would like to thank those who donated to the Alumni Scholarship Fund. The following donors were inadvertently left out of the Alumni Scholarship Fund Donor List for 2011-12. We apologize for the omission.
Kathleen Williams
Victoria Paige Wooley
Tao Xie
was born and raised
is a third-year UC Santa
is 34 and grew up on
in Southern California
Barbara student majoring
mainland China. He
and is pursuing a major
in Biopsychology with a
came to the United
in biological sciences
3.85 GPA. She was born
States nine years
after falling in love with
and raised in San Diego
ago and is currently
biology in high school.
and graduated fourth in
studying finances and
Williams is maintaining
her high school senior
accounting. He has
a 3.89 GPA. She hopes
class. Her goal is to earn
found the transition
to attend medical school
a doctorate in either
to a new country and
upon graduation from
neuroscience or clinical
a new language very
UC Santa Barbara.
psychology. Her passion
challenging, but says
She spent the last two
in clinical research stems
that he has benefitted
summers earning
from her own battle with
from the open
an EMT license. She
cystic fibrosis since her
educational system in
enjoys the fact that she is
birth.
the United States. While
part of a Gaucho legacy:
he had to interrupt his
her sister Amy is a first-
education after the birth
year student at UC Santa
of his first child in 2005,
Barbara.
he is back at UC Santa Barbara hoping to earn a degree and said in his statement to the Alumni Association, “I will cherish the opportunities this country has offered to me.”
In the face of rapidly increasing tuition fees, the Alumni Scholarship Fund provides a key resource for the UCSB Financial Aid & Scholarships office. The Scholarship Fund has already awarded $59,000 to 57 UCSB students since the Fall of 2009. The Alumni Association continues to solicit support from alumni and friends with an overall goal of $3 million by 2018. More than $520,000 in gifts and pledges has already been raised for the AASF, including donations during the 2011-2012 school year. To give online, go to www.ucsbalum.com and click on the Give Online button. For more information, contact John Lofthus, Alumni Association Associate Director, at (805) 893-8416.
Jodi L. Anderson Field ’94 Arcelia Arce ’98 Marjorie A. Cole ’64 Beverly J. Colgate John A. Colgate ’69 Samuel Joseph De Castro-Abeger ’11 Steven L. Decou ’11 Diane L. Dodds ’68 Christopher Field Faith J. Geoghegan ’59 Cheryl A. Kelly Kevin R. Kelly Jennifer L. Lofthus ’01 John C. Lofthus ’00, M.A. ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Evert Nygren Ron Rubenstein ’66 Frank T. Stevens ’59 Kay L. Stevens ’62 Marty F. Stone ’82 Jody W. Sweet Paul E. Sweet ’69 Andrew Harrison Sugar ’11
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1940s Alice Chard Tarbush, ’48, completed 65 years as a Santa Barbara Unified School District employee on Feb. 5, 2013. She retired in 1994, but remained working and is now at La Cumbre Junior High as a test consultant, but holds several other duties.
1960s Ann Glasgow, ’66, ’67, has been appointed to the Historical Landmarks Advisory Commission by the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors representing District 3. Nancy Son Warren, ’66, was honored with a Delta Gamma Cable Award, a national award, for her dedicate service as a chapter advisor.
Lawrence R. Baca, ’73 received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for 2012. Baca became the first Native America to receive the prestigious award. He is a retired U.S. Department of Justice civil rights litigator and a former chairman of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and the first and only Native American to hold that post.
John Keever, ’67, added a Hall of Fame grand slam to his distinguished career as a coach and athletic administrator when the chair of the Gaucho Order collected his fourth plaque of honor when he was inducted recently into Moorpark College’s hallowed hall. The former Gaucho football co-captain and member of the 1965 Camellia Bowl Hall of Fame team was a threesport coach 22
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currently finishing production of his third symphony, titled “Corrosion.” The recording, by the Intercontinental Philharmonic Orchestra, was released Dec. 12, 2012.
at Moorpark before serving as athletic director for 14 years. He credited his success “to my Hall of Fame wife, Debbie.” Randy Lewis, ’68, recently served as the assistant executive dean on the Fall ’12 Semester at Sea voyage. The 15-week itinerary sailed to four continents and called on 14 ports throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Seven UCSB undergraduates were among the 475 students on board. This was his eighth voyage with Semester at Sea, which is academically affiliated with the University of Virginia. In 2006, Lewis retired from UC Irvine, where he spent 35 years in university administration.
1970s Jim Swan, ’68, ’72, has been in Japan since 1973 with the exception of two years’ graduate studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Jerry Windom, ’72, became vice president of Risk Management in Woodland Hills Office of Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers, Inc. Windom advises clients on personnel and commercial line property and casualty insurance program design and placement. Pertti Hakkinen, ’74, has been the acting head of the newly established Office of Clinical Toxicology at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland). He has been an adjunct associate professor since August 2011 and co-director of the Public Health Informatics course at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Carol Rozanksy, ’74, is chairperson and professor of the Education Department at Columbia College in Chicago. Jason Martz, ’75, was featured on Michael Jackson’s new release “Bad 25,” the 25th anniversary reissue of one of Jackson’s best-selling albums, playing the harmonica. Martz is a featured soloist on “Streetwalker.” He has also played keyboards and synthesizers on Jackson’s multi-platinum hit song “Black or White” from the Dangerous Album. Martz is
Lawrence Doyle, ’77, was honored with a Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award in recognition of his efforts to mentor and inspire students in California’s underserved and disadvantaged communities. Doyle has used his expertise in developing student test-taking abilities and learning skills to improve opportunities for underrepresented minority students. Dorian Kuper, ’78, moved to Montana where she and her husband have their own engineering geology firm. They are focused on mineral resources and mining reclamation. Kuper has just been elected to the board of the American Geosciences Institute as secretary. AGI strives to increase public awareness of the vital role geosciences plays in society by advocating the earth sciences. Dr. Aeron Wickes, ’78, was elected to the board of directors of the Palomar Hospital District in the general election on Nov. 6, 2012, San Diego County.
1980s Renee Welze Livingston, ’82, was recently elected to the board of directors for the Contra Costa County Bar Association and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada. Doug Morris, ’82, announced his retirement after his 25th season as San Lorenzo Valley High’s football coach. He
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was one of the most successful coaches in Central Coast Section history. Morris finishes with 13 league championships and 16 postseason appearances, including three Central Coast Section titles (’99, ’00, ’02).
for 9 News at Noon, Striving for Excellence Award from the Minorities in Broadcasting Training and Best News Reporting Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association of Northern California.
Kathy Haverty Welsh, ’85, and Justin Welsh, ’85, celebrated their 25th anniversary in September 2012. They met on Goleta Beach their first week as freshmen.
Liz McCarthy, ’88, was awarded the 2012 Realtor of the Year Award by the Marin Chapter of Women’s Council of Realtors.
John Gould, ’86, was named a managing director at Thornburg Investment Management. Katie Upton, ’86, has been featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Ventura County’s Agriculture Museum. Featured in the exhibit are her large-scale paintings of horses. Upton’s paintings and drawings are held in private collection throughout the United States, and in Europe and Asia. Kyle Hoffman, ’84, M.A. ’88, has been appointed vice chancellor for Development and Alumni Relations at UC Merced. He first worked as the director of Student Relations and director of the Alumni Vacation Center at UC Santa Barbara before joining UC Riverside as executive director of the UC Riverside Alumni Association. He was then named the assistant vice chancellor of Alumni and Constituent Relations. Paula Lopez, ’88, was honored with a Women of Achievement Award by the Association for Women in Communication, Santa Barbara chapter. Lopez is co-anchor on KEY News in Santa Barbara County. She has also worked at KCAL in Los Angeles, covering the O.J. Simpson trial and the Los Angeles riots. She has won awards such as the Los Angeles Area Emmy Award
1990s Randy Fine, ’90, is serving as the president of the Roosters Foundation of Orange County, a philanthropic group that raises money and volunteers time to children in need and at risk. Angela L. Minniefield, ’90, was honored with a Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award in recognition for advancing government policies and programs that increase the number of underrepresented students in health professions. She recently became the vice president of strategic advancement at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Craig Kennedy, ’87, Ph.D. ’92, senior associate dean at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and professor of special education and pediatrics, was named dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Kennedy has received the Research Excellence Award from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College, the Educator of the Year award from Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Council for People with Disabilities, the B.F. Skinner New Researcher Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Alice H. Hayden Award from the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps. Ralf Remshardt, Ph.D. ’91, was promoted to professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Dance, University of Florida. Glenn D. Taxman, ’92, was named to Much Shelist law firm’s Management Committee. Taxman is head of the Chicago-based firm’s Irvine office and a principal in the firm’s Real Estate practice group. He was named chair of the Management Committee, where he will oversee all firm operations. Bill Harrison, ’93, was elected mayor of Fremont, Calif., on Nov. 6, 2012. Harrison is co-owner of Harrison Accounting Group,
Nicolasa Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, was chosen by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the State Board of Education. Sandoval received her Ph.D. in ’07 from the Department of Education. The state board is the governing and policymaking body of the state’s Department of Education and sets education policy for public schools. Sandoval currently works as Education Director for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and continues to teach at the Gevirtz School. She is a board member of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association. Inc., founded in 1948. The firm is the oldest accounting firm in Fremont and still has its headquarters there while servicing clients throughout the western United States. Scott Collins, ’96, received a doctorate degree in management with a concentration in accounting from Claremont Graduate University in August 2012. He has accepted a position to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University as a clinical assistant professor of accounting, beginning with the Fall 2012 semester. Both Collins and his wife, Kathy, are relocating to central Pennsylvania. Daniel Wilson, MESM ’98, who owns and operates Wilson Environmental Contracting, Inc., has received the following awards: 2012 Santa Barbara Contractors Association Construction Awards in Landscape & Hardscape, Commercial, for the Fallen Firefighter Memorial at the Santa Barbara County Fire Department Headquarters; the 2012 Goleta Valley Beautiful Single Family Residential Award; and the Sustainability Award, the State Trophy Judges Choice Award, the State Trophy Achievement Award for Xeriscape, and the Bob Baeir MemorialSustainable Award from the California Landscape Contractors Association.
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at San Francisco’s Presidio Graduate School. He is studying part-time while continuing to work full-time as regional environmental compliance programs manager for Recology, a solid-waste-recovery company based in San Francisco. Patrick S. Salceda, ’01, joined Duange Morris LLP as part of the launch of its new Silicon Valley office. Salceda, an associate, joins the firm from K&L Gates LLP. He practices in the area of intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on representing high-tech clients in the persecution and defense of complex IP, unfair competition and business practices disputes. Sara Aminzadeh, ’03, was appointed executive director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance, which represents 12 California Waterkeeper organizations throughout the state. Aminzadeh had previously served as acting director. She has also recently launched a two-year campaign to tackle California’s biggest water quality problem: polluted runoff. Megan Moore, ’04, accepted a teaching position as the coordinator of printmaking and foundations areas in the Visual Arts Department at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Ala. She started teaching the Fall 2012 semester. Kris (Herrington) Wall, MESM ’04, and her husband, Nate, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Linnea Dylan Wall, on June 23, 2012.
Christina Cairns, MESM ’05, has been hired as a USAID environment foreign service officer under the agency’s Development Leadership Initiative program. She will contribute to the development and management of environment-related foreign-assistance programs and ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into various programs. She and Jessica Spence, MESM ’08, met at the training. Cairns will head to Pretoria, South Africa, in 2013. Brian Crumline, MESM ’05, is living in Portland, Ore., with his wife, Robin; 13-yearold stepson, Finn; and year-old daughter, Elise. As a program delivery manager for Cascade Energy, Inc., Crumline works in the area of industrial energy efficiency program management for regional utilities. Kelly McFarren, ’05, graduated from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business with an MBA in May 2012. After graduation, she will work for ConAgra Foods in Omaha, Neb., in the marketing department where she will participate in the Brand Management Leadership Development Program. Karen (Wolowicz) Weiss, ’05, and her husband, Jeremy Weiss, welcomed a baby girl, Hazel Mae, on Dec. 15, 2011. In April, Weiss accepted a position as senior environmental scientist at the California Department of Fish and Game. She is working in the Habitat Conservation Division at the Region 3 offices in Napa. Kelly Croce, ’06, and Chris Gallo, ’04, reside in San Francisco, where Croce recently earned her master’s of arts
Lucius Davis, an important member of Santa Barbara basketball teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s was introduced as the fifth men’s basketball Legend of the ‘Dome’ when the Gauchos hosted Pacific. The Legend of the ‘Dome’ program was implemented in 2009 to immortalize the Gaucho athletes that consistently turned in legendary performances inside of a legendary building. 24
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in International Relations and Gallo works as a CPA for a private equity firm. They married at the University Club of Santa Barbara in July 2012, where they celebrated with fellow Gauchos and family. Jeffrey Farrington, ’06, launched Los Angeles’ newest residential solar installation business last year. Working closely with infill developers, SunCraftsmen
Solar (suncraftsmensolar.com) installs American-made solar panels and micro inverters on new and existing homes throughout Southern California. Kim Matsoukas, MESM ’06, accepted the newly created position of sustainability manager at Vans Shoes after six years at carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street, starting as sustainability coordinator and rising to sustainability director. Joaquin Neira, MESM ’06, his wife, Magdalena, and their daughter, Mia, returned to their home country of Argentina in September after eight years in the U.S. and six at Zurich North America. Neira accepted a new job as environmental insurance liability regional manager for the Latin American Region of AIG, which is also currently known as Chartis Insurance. The family will be based in Buenos Aires. Robert Newton, MESM ’06, married Stacey Elder on Nov. 3, 2012, on Exuma Cay, Bahamas. The couple currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where Newton works for The Nature Conservancy. Betty Seto, MESM ’06, and Scott Murtishaw welcomed their first child, Baxter Si- Yun Murtiseto, on Sept. 16, 2011. Seto is still working as a senior consultant specializing in energy efficiency and climate-action plans in the Oakland, Calif., office of DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability. Gina Gerritzen, MESM ’07, left her position in Spring 2012, as an environmental compliance specialist and project engineer with ARCADIS/ Malcolm Pirnie to take a new job as an environmental health and safety and sustainability consultant for ERM Information Solutions in Houston, Texas. Julie Sarto, ’07, and Michael Ritchie, ’07, were married on Aug. 20, 2011, in Newport Beach, Calif., surrounded by family, friends and fellow Gauchos. Sarto and Ritchie live in Orange County where Ritchie is a
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CPA and auditor and Sarto is an attorney practicing business litigation. Karen Setty, MESM ’07, and her husband, Fabio Bolognesi, are the proud parents of a son, Niccolò Remo Bolognesi, born April 20, 2012, at Saddleback Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills, Calif. The family lives in Lake Forest, Calif., and Setty continues to work as a science writer for the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project in Costa Mesa. Jamie Britto, MESM ’08, assumed a new position as client care manager for Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance in September 2012. In March 2012, Britto became engaged to Nick Facciola, ’04, an engineer with TerraPass. They currently live in Oakland, Calif., with their new dog, Lucy. Peter Canepa, MESM ’08, and his wife, Laura, welcomed their first child, Lily Marie Canepa, on April 14, 2012. Canepa says that his daughter, “regularly astounds
us as she develops and interacts with the world” and has also given him “new respect for any and all parents.” Jessica Spence, MESM ’08, has been hired as a USAID environment foreign service officer under the agency’s Development Leadership Initiative program. She will contribute to the development and management of environment-related foreign-assistance programs and ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into various programs. She and Christina Cairns, MESM ’05, met at the training. Spence will head to Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2013. Leslie Abramson, MESM ’09, and her husband, Nathan Eldridge, have a new home in San Francisco’s Sunset district. Abramson works on resource protection issues at the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and serves as the Sanctuary Advisory Council coordinator. The sanctuary is currently a client for a Bren Group Project.
Sarah (Bumby) Anderson, MESM ’09, accepted a position as an environmental planner at the Philadelphia offices of CH2M HILL in March, after three years of environmental planning work at Cardno ENTRIX in Santa Barbara. She and her husband, Doug Anderson, have relocated to the City of Brotherly Love. Milli Chennell, MESM ’09, was Fiji bound with the U.S. Peace Corps. She made it, and is currently living by the beach as an integrated environmental resource volunteer. She is working to implement marine protected areas, constructing high-efficiency wood burning stoves, and weaving the occasional mat. She will be in Fiji through June 2013. Shannon Morrison, ’09, is a 2012-2013 Robertson Fellow. She did an internship with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean as an
7th Annual UCSB Alumni Association S avor UCSB All Gaucho Reunion
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Come back to UC Santa Barbara where it all started and join your sisters or brothers in celebrating those eternal bonds of friendships with other members of the Greek community, past and present! Your GreekFest Alumni Committee are busy planning what promises to be a great weekend for all Greek alumni. Greek Nite at The Savoy Start your weekend off right by enjoying hosted appetizers (5:30-8pm) and special live music in downtown Santa Barbara. Greek Open Houses & BBQ Re-visit your old chapter houses for a tour or just to say hello to your brothers and sisters. Greek & Friends Brunch The perfect finish to your weekend by celebrating fellow Greeks over a delicious Sunday brunch. For more information on all of the GreekFest activities, visit our Facebook page or www.allgauchoreunion.com. Questions? Contact GreekFest Co-Chairs Gary Rhodes ‘83 (SAE), garymrhodes@gmail.com, Leslie (Solomon) Klonoff ‘80 (Alpha Phi), lesliesolomon.klonoff@ucsbalum.com, GreekFest Student Supervisor Daniella Lavi ‘13 (AXO), daniella@ucsbalum.com, or Alumni Association Associate Director John Lofthus ‘00 (FIJI), john@ucsbalum.com
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undergraduate and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small, rural village in Suriname for two years after graduating. Morrison is fluent in Saramaccan, a Portuguese-based creole, and is currently learning Spanish. Lara Polansky, ’09, accepted the EPA Federal Green Challenge 2012 Leadership and Innovation Award on behalf of the Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service in May 2012. The award honored regional employees for their work hosting the 2012 National Sustainable Operations Summit, which Polansky co-chaired. Courtney Walker, ‘09, is in pre-production on a documentary titled “What Is Hope? The Children of the Selamta Family Project” (www.whatishopedoc.org) about orphaned and abandoned children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who have had families built around them by the Selamta Family Project (www. selamta.org). She and fellow Gaucho and Blue Horizons participant Justin Faerman, ’10, plan to shoot the documentary in early 2013.
2010s Nishit Doshi, Ph.D. ’10, won the Young Chemical Engineer of the Year award from the Institute of Chemical Engineers, a global institute with 35,000 members from more than 120 countries. He was awarded for the research he did at UC Santa Barbara with Samir Mitragortri, professor of chemical
August 2012. The couple then honeymooned in Moorea and Bora Bora. They live in Irvine, Calif. Danielle Quinones, ’11, is getting married Aug. 18, 2013, and is graduating with a master’s degree in postsecondary educational leadership with a specialization in student affairs in May 2013 from San Diego State University. Ryland King, ’12, received the Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute in San Francisco. King was recognized for his work for organizing hundreds of college students to teach thousands of first and secondgraders about sustainability through his organization Environmental Education for the Next Generation. Jason Levin, Ph.D. ’12, was hired as a tenure-track professor of education at California State at Monterey Bay. He is also in his ninth year as host of the horse racing-themed radio show “Inside Racing,” airing 7 a.m. Saturdays on KTLK AM 1150 in Los Angeles.
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engineering, in which they developed synthetic platelets. Sarah Green, MESM ’11, married to Jonathan Poon on July 21, 2012, at the Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Garden. Green is currently working on sustainable fisheries management solutions at the Environmental Defense Fund in San Francisco. Christine Jaramillo, ’11, accepted a position at the Anheuser-Busch Fort Collins Brewery in May 2012 as an environmental, health and safety manager. Aliana Lungo, MESM ’11, and her longtime boyfriend, Stephan Shapiro, were married in 26
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Ernest Gilbert Saenz, ’43, died Sept. 29, 2011, at the age of 92. He is in the UC Santa Barbara Gaucho Hall of Fame for football and boxing. He played professional football for the Los Angeles Dons and the Hollywood Bears and later enlisted in the Navy in June 1942, where he spent three years as a destroyer line officer. He is survived by wife Helen; children Laura Dimmitt, Cynthia Saenz and Ernie; and brother Jack and sister Marcela. William “Bill” Leveille, ’43, died June 27, 2012. He was 92. He played on the Gauchos basketball team from 1940-1942 and was captain of the team his senior year. After graduating, he joined the armed services and spent the remainder of World War II as a Navy ensign in the Pacific Theater. He retired in 1977 and became a nationally
ranked senior tennis player. He and his wife, Francis, spent many years traveling around the world playing matches with representatives of other countries on behalf of the U.S. Tennis Association. Survivors include children Terry and Sally. Nephtali Solis, ’56, died Jan. 8, 2012. Solis was a doctor of homeopathy and doctor of oriental medicine. He was also an accomplished pianist and member of the Santa Barbara Music Club. He is survived by sisters Zarith Solis Uhrig and Loyda, and his brother, Arnaldo. Cynthia Billing Thomas Davis, ’57, died Jan. 10, 2013. She loved art, crafts and music. She was a sewing instructor for Santa Barbara Adult Education for more than 25 years. In 1995 Davis opened her dream store, the Fabric Depot where, for more than ten years, she sold fabric and sewing machines and taught craft classes. Survivors include husband Fred Davis and sons Lindon and Matthew Thomas. Loretta Marie Wilson, ’61, died June 6, 2012. She majored in fine arts at UC Santa Barbara and taught art at Santa Barbara Junior High for more than 40 years. She was a single mother who raised her kids with the freedom to explore the world, to be creative and screw things up at times. Survivors include daughter Liz Wilson and son Johnny Wilson. Dennis Green, ’64, M.A. ‘66, died March 4, 2011. He was 70 years old. Dennis attended UC Santa Barbara, receiving his master’s in English Literature. He then taught for 10 years at UC Santa Barbara. Green then moved to the Bay Area where he worked at the Oakland Children’s Hospital as a public relations director and was creative director in Lazzari & Green Associates. Survivors include his wife, Diane Lazzari, and sons Mitch, Max and Barrett. David C. Rhudy, ’68, died Feb. 20, 2012, of metastatic melanoma. He earned a degree in cultural anthropology from UC Santa Barbara and spent two years in the Fiji Islands with the Peace Corps from 1969-1970. He then settled in Goshen, Ind., where he owned and managed Goshen Hardware until 2004. He also served eight years on the Goshen Community Schools Board. Survivors include wife Carol, and children Meredith Palmison, and Mark. Steve Furniss, ’74, died June 27, 2012. He was active as a community organizer and taught political science at several colleges
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in the Fort Collins, Colo., area. Survivors include brother Robert Furniss and nephews and nieces. Carol (Bleise) Kenzer, ’75, died on Oct. 11, 2012, in Richmond, Va., of cancer. She taught social studies for 22 years in North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. She is survived by her husband, Robert Kenzer, ‘76, and son Benjamin. The family requests contributions be made to the Carol L. Kenzer Memorial Scholarship Fund managed by the Henrico County Education Foundation, 3820 Nine Mile Road, 9+Henrico, VA 23223. Terry George Bliss, ’77, died Nov. 6, 2012. He was a native Carpinterian and was president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity while attending UC Santa Barbara. Bliss was an avocado rancher and owner of Carpinteria Motor Transport and Ownby Trucking. Survivors include wife Patricia Dillon Bliss, daughter Chonnie Bliss Jacobson, siblings Wendy Bliss MacMurray, Timothy Kenyon Bliss, and granddaughters Lily Marjorie Jacobson and Emily Bliss Jacobson. Cheryl Reed, ’77, died Dec. 21, 2012. She was a consultant to community colleges, worked for Microsoft and was employed as a manager at Amazon in Seattle. She and her husband, Tim Owen, were killed when a tree, heavy-laden with wet snow, crashed onto her vehicle. Survivors include children Jessie, Jeremy and Jaime. Karen Bogen, ’83, died after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Bogen worked at Strawberry Farms Golf Course in Irvine, Calif. She was a LPGA Western Section member. Barry Berkus died Nov. 30, 2012. He was 77. Berkus, the architect of the Mosher Alumni House on the UC Santa Barbara campus, was an award-winning architect in the U.S. and internationally. After starting college at UCSB in 1954 as an economics major, his lifelong interest in drawing drew him to architecture and he transferred to USC. He was the founder and president of B3 Architects and Berkus Design Studio. He was also an author, artist and avid art collector. Berkus received several awards and was named one of the top 10 residential architects of the 20th century by Residential Architect magazine in 1991. Survivors include wife Jo Cahow, sons Jeffrey and Steven, and daughter Carey.
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Learning to Love the Peso Jeff Crimmel ’69 Jeffrey R. Crimmel
Board Dynamics: How to Get Results from Your Board and Committees Lorin Letendre ’68, M.A. ’69 NACD
Trailblazer: A Biography of Jerry Brown Chuck McFadden ’59 UC Press
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence Benjamin Sutherland ’91 Profile Books Ltd.
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Mystery Postcards of the California Delta Carol A. Jensen ’73 Brentwood Press
How four simple retirement planning ideas came together to make one powerful gift: ➢ It’s time to downsize from our house and simplify. ➢ Let’s make sure we have enough retirement income. ➢ Are there tax benefits for us now? ➢ We want a plan that will ultimately benefit UC Santa Barbara.
Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp brought their ideas to the Office of Major Gift Planning and we helped them to come up with a specific plan that:
Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp and Suzanne Mellichamp, M.A. Education, 1970.
• Provides generous supplemental income for life.
• Takes advantage of all possible tax benefits as they move from house to lower maintenance condo.
• Makes a generous provision that will ultimately benefit a cluster of endowed professorships at UC Santa Barbara.
How was all this accomplished? Not surprisingly, their home had appreciated significantly. First, we made sure that they would receive directly their
If you have similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director, Office of Development at (805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email chris.pizzinat@ia.ucsb.edu.
$500,000 in tax-exempt appreciation as well as their original investment in the property. The balance that remained went into a charitable remainder trust to provide income for their lifetimes, then for their legacy at UCSB. The UCSB Foundation, as trustee of the trust, managed the sale— working hard to ensure that the highest possible sale price was realized. As Professor Mellichamp says, “We received a major tax deduction every year for five years instead of a tax bill from
For more gift ideas and examples, please
the sale of our house, and the proceeds were reinvested to
visit www.giftplanning.ucsb.edu.
supplement our retirement income. Best of all, a much larger gift will eventually go to the UCSB Mellichamp Endowment than we could have afforded otherwise. How was all this possible? Only because the feds and state are willing to be such generous co-donors … what a great way to maximize the impact of your assets!”
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