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PLUS: Where are they now?

A new interactive map of where Gauchos go after Goleta A Community shows it’s #GauchoStrong

UCSB Sophomores celebrate being halfway done with their college tenure at the Halfway There Party 2014.

Hosted by the UCSB Alumni Association, Mosher Alumni House.

UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jan Campbell ’74, Santa Barbara President Justin Morgan ’07, Los Angeles Vice-President Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara Secretary-Treasurer Cuca Acosta ’01, Santa Barbara Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles Shana Bright ’93, El Cajon Jorge Cabrera ’02, Chicago Teresa Carranza ’09, Simi Valley Ron Chiarello ’83, Layfeyette Carl Clapp ’81, Honolulu, HI Manuel Estaban Ph.D.’ 76, Santa Barbara Mark French ’73, Santa Barbara Ralph Garcia ’83, San Mateo John Keever ’67, Camarillo Debi Kinney ’97, Henderson NV Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Mary Moslander ’88, San Francisco Kristen Nesbit ’02, Los Angeles Michele Schneider ’91, Los Altos Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Rich St. Clair ’66, Santa Barbara Wenonah Valentine ’77, Pasadena Sue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa Barbara Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, VA Marisa Yeager ’95, Riverside Ex Officio Jonathan Abboud President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Gary Haddow Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 Faculty Representative Ed Birch UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Nick Smith, Editor Renee Lowe ’16, Editorial Assistant Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director ALUMNI STAFF Sheri Fruhwirth, Director, Family Vacation Center Susan Goodale ’86, Program Director, Director of Alumni Travel Program Hazra Abdool Kamal, Chief Financial Officer John Lofthus ’00, Associate Director Mary MacRae ’94, Office Manager Rachael Rutkowski ’13, Philanthropy & Business Development Coordinator Sandy Thor, Business Manager, Family Vacation Center George Thurlow ’73, Executive Director Rocio Torres ’05, Director of Regional Programs/ Constituent Groups Terry Wimmer, Webmaster Natalie Wong ’79, Senior Artist Christina Yan ’12, Membership FPORelations for FSC logo & Donor Coordinator

UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Summer 2014 Vol. 44, No. 4

Up Front — Inside

FEATURES

20 The Army and the Moth 23 Revolutionary Battery 24 ROTC on Campus 26 A Coastlines Interview with Cadets 28 Well traveled Gauchos — Where are our Gaucho Alumi?

DEPARTMENTS

4 Up Front - Voices 6 Around Storke Tower 12 Alumni Arts 14 Entrepreneurship 16 Research 19 On the Water 30 Milestones: ’50s to the Present

Find more COASTLINES Content ONLINE to www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines ➚ Go Gay Degani’s ’69 book feature – A Life in Writing Support Gaucho Grown Startups Listen to Steve Cummings ’69 Gaucho fight song

Coastlines is published quarterly, printed three times a year, one online issue by the UCSB Alumni Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1120. Inclusion of advertising in Coastlines is not meant to imply endorsement by the UCSB Alumni Association of any company, product, or service being advertised. Information about graduates of the University of California, Santa Barbara and its predecessor institutions, Santa Barbara State College and Santa Barbara State Teachers College, may be addressed to Editor, Coastlines, UCSB Alumni Association, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-1120. To comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the publisher provides this publication in alternative formats. Persons with special needs and who require an alternative format may contact the UCSB Alumni Association at the address given above for assistance. The telephone number is (805) 893-4077, FAX (805) 893-4918. Offices of the Alumni Association are in the Mosher Alumni House.

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THIS IS THE ISLA VISTA “PEOPLE NEED TO SEE.

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ABSOUTELY AWESOME TRIBUTE.

Steve Hellmers

UCSB grad student Melissa Barthelemy created a memorial wall in the Arbor called "We Remember Them: A Place of Healing at The Arbor"

My heart sank when I heard the news -thoughts and prayers go out to the UCSB community.

Gaucho in DC, 2005.

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Stay strong, Gauchos. Know that the entire alumni community hurts for you and we love you all. IV is a magical place and we cannot let this terrible event take that away from us. <3 Kristy (Schmit) Morgan Class of ’05 It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make us appreciate life #UCSB #WeAreAllOneUC #UCDavisVigil @ucdavis @ucsantabarbara Fellow Gauchos: You are not alone. Those of us who graduated and went away are Gauchos still. We think of you and of the six Gauchos who are gone. You are the best of California’s young people. You will learn something about yourselves and about your friends and neighbors. You will learn how to survive tragedy. You will get through finals. You can do anything!

Go Gauchos!

deepseadawn • I have been so heartbroken for you as a former resident of IV, but also so inspired by your courage and fighting spirit! We

Judith Ilene Bloom ’72

are with you every day! #GauchoStrong #IVStrong.

I will never forget how I found a $20 bill blowing around in the street in IV when as a poor UCSB student I needed money for groceries. May IV again become a place of small miracles to feed big dreams! Stay strong!

From Dawn, grad Class of ’94 www.ucsbalum.com

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Around Storke Tower â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Campus Community Newsbits

Editorial contributions from Alumni staff and the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

20,000+ We Remember May 23, 2014 #GauchoStrong 6

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Around Storke Tower — Campus Community Newsbits

Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

UCSB Scores Highest Possible Accreditation Rating UC Santa Barbara’s academic accreditation has been renewed for the maximum span of 10 years by the independent nonprofit membership organization Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

The WASC accreditation, which has promoted the development of higher education in the Western United States for over 50 years, allows universities to offer students federally-funded education loans, grants and scholarships, but approval doesn’t come easy: the process includes campus visits by the WASC commission and detailed reports on all aspects of undergraduate and graduate education.

The WASC team noted the completion of learning outcomes for all undergraduate and graduate degree programs at UCSB as well as the

quality of the general education program. The report also cited the campus’ commitment to undergraduate learning, as demonstrated by experienced professors teaching undergraduate courses and by academic and co-curricular programs supporting student learning.

The campus also received high marks for its service to low-income, first-generation and Hispanic students, and the remarkable success of these students as illustrated by retention and graduation rates.

Princeton Review Honors UCSB as Green College Elite Best known for its college preparation and tutoring services aimed at High Schoolers and for its academic rankings of universities, The Princeton Review has recently expanded its rankings across a range of student wellness and lifestyle measures. Six years ago it began ranking schools on their environmental awareness and commitments in the Green College Honor Roll. This year UC Santa Barbara made the list once again.

The Review recognised UCSB specifically for establishing one of the first environmental

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studies programs in the United States in the 1970s and more recent initiatives like the Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee, the studentdirected Renewable Energy Initiative, The Green Initiative Fund and the Coastal Fund which has marshaled over 350 projects aimed at preserving the UCSB coastline.

To compile the 2014

Green College Honor Roll, The Review considered factors like how schools prepare students for employment in green energy economies and the environmental responsibility of schools’ policies including mass transit programs and the availability of environmentally preferable foods. The complete list of Green Ratings are available on The Princeton Review website at http://bit.ly/1ie4F6V.

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numbers UC Santa Barbara 2014 Admissions Freshman Applicants:

66,803 Accepted:

24,127

Gaucho Certified Farmers Market: Now on Campus

(36% down from 44% in 2013)

Started in 2013 to give UC Santa Barbara students, staff, faculty and the community better access to fresh, locally grown produce and artisan goods, the Gaucho Certified Farmers Market has moved from its inaugural location outside the San Rafael residence hall to the more centrally-located North Library Mall, between North Hall and Campbell Hall.

The Gaucho Certified Farmer’s Market has worked tirelessly over the course of its existence to refine and add vendors as the wants of Gauchos and friends of UCSB become more apparent. Multiple food trucks now frequent the weekly Wednesday market.

For more information about the Gaucho Certified Farmer’s Market visit facebook.com gauchocertifiedfarmersmarket

This year the department of Theater and Dance and the Department of Religious Studies celebrated their 50th anniversaries at UCSB. The Geography Department

Rejected:

42,676 (64%) Expected 2014 Freshman Class size:

4,510

Average high school GPA of admitted applicants:

4.05

% admitted applicants who identify as members of racial or ethnic minority groups:

64.4%

Of all applicants admitted, 78 percent, or 18,539, are California residents.

Of the total number of admitted applicants, 2,875, or 12 percent, are international nonresident students The UC system received a record

celebrated its 40th anniversary and the

183,510

Department of Communication, its 30th.

applications for fall 2014

UCSB’s academic and research breadth now spans over 60 departments, so we made a timeline to keep track of them.

Check it out online at http://bit.ly/1xQEajn

148,688

from freshman applicants and

34,822

from transfer applicants.

Around Storke Tower — Campus Community Newsbits

Editorial contributions from the Alumni staff and staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

Recycled Water Turns UCSB Green

By Laura Lombardo

If you have ever walked near the Psychology Building on the UCSB campus, you have most likely noticed the vibrant, exotic plants surrounding you. The University of California at Santa Barbara has one of the most gorgeously green campuses in the world, even during a statewide drought. As you step back from admiring the vibrantly colorful plant life, you might also notice a small, brown sign warning of “reclaimed” irrigation water. Many students pass by this small sign and don’t think much of it as it’s a pretty common sign on campus, but I am curious – where does this “reclaimed” water come from? And why are even bigger signs displayed throughout campus boasting about the 90% recycled irrigation water at UCSB?

Recycled Water Prevents Depletion of Resources On January 17th, 2014, Governor Brown declared a statewide drought in California. Since then, there has been an urgency felt throughout the whole state to conserve potable drinking water. Both California and the Santa Barbara area are asking for a voluntary water reduction of 20 percent.

Luckily, UCSB is already doing their part to conserve potable water and instead is using the wastewater that is already available. That’s right. Wastewater. I know what you might be thinking, but every day UCSB saves potable water by using recycled wastewater for irrigation and some toilets (specifically the toilets in the courtyard at Bren Hall). According to the Goleta Water District website, “reducing

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outdoor water use is the easiest way to save the most significant amount of water”. Because we are using recycled water for 90 percent of our irrigation at UCSB, we are also conserving 26 percent of our potable water usage.

Problems Faced When Implementing Recycled Water If using recycled water is so

beneficial to our water conservation, then why isn’t every facility in California using recycled water?

According to Matthew O’Carroll, who works for the Physical Facilities at UCSB for Water Conservation, there are two main problems that facilities can run into when implementing recycled water – public perception and infrastructure. Matt emphasizes the fact that “public perception definitely is something that needs to change because this is a water source that is already available to us and isn’t going anywhere. It is energy intensive, yes, but it’s more energy intensive to move potable water from many parts of the state instead of just using local recycled water.”

In some cases there can be a negative public perception because people will assume that recycled water is icky sewer water, however, recycled water is simply wastewater that has been treated to recycled water standards. Recycled water should not be touched or ingested for health reasons as it contains trace amounts of fecal coliform matter, but there is very little concern for health complications as irrigation occurs at night when few people are even around. The use of recycled water, because it does not hold the quality standards of drinking water, is highly regulated by laws, especially under Title 22 and Title 17. These laws are why the “small, brown signs” previously mentioned are planted in areas where recycled water is used.

As for infrastructure, the necessary pipelines need to be available for recycled water to flow as it cannot be mixed with potable drinking water. The recycled water at UCSB comes from the waste water in Goleta that is treated by the Goleta Sanitary District and then provided to UCSB by the Goleta Water District.

For those native to the UCSB area, the main water line comes in from under the 217, goes across the campus, across El Colegio Road, and up Storke Road.

The main line cannot reach all areas, however, such as UCSB’s family housing. Kirsten McLaughlin, who works in Water Supply Conservation at the Goleta Water District, also added that, “Storage is an important aspect of infrastructure problems. Without proper storage of the recycled water, a community is not able to provide recycled water.” Luckily, Goleta has plenty of storage space for recycled water and even offers lower water rates as an incentive for its customers to make the switch.

The Water Action Plan, at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. “The Water Action Plan covers a 15-year planning horizon for future water conservation and efficiency efforts at the university”.

One of the recommendations of the Water Action Plan was to hire a Water Conservation and Efficiency Manager, the position that Matt currently holds.

“We’ve received over 100,000 dollars worth of grants in part from TGIF (The Greener Initiative Fund).

One of the recommendations of the Water Action Plan is to retrofit the campus with aerators, a project we will be undertaking in a couple months”. These aerators mix air and water so there is not a constant flow of water from the faucet and instead spreads the water out.

The Future of Reclaimed Water

The Water Action Plan in Action at UCSB

With 20 recommendations for water conservation and efficiency already underway with the Water Action Plan, UCSB is becoming a prime example of how a large community can grow and thrive during times of stress thanks to careful planning. As for the future of recycled water at UCSB, “We want to increase the use of recycled water by expanding it to areas currently using potable water and explore the use of recycled water in toilets for new construction.

A long term goal is to also look at using recycled water in our cooling tower infrastructure.”

Kirsten from the Goleta Water District thinks that the negative public perception certainly seems to be changing and she has high hopes for the future of recycled water. “The technology of treating the recycled water is continually improving and is very impressive and I think that has to do with people’s opinions changing.”

The San Diego district, for example, did not allow recycled water even on their lawns less than 20 years ago and now is trying to implement more recycled water in their district. Orange County is making groundbreaking advancements to their recycled water and we might soon see recycled water and drinking water in the same infrastructure because of these improvements in quality. “Recycled water is very important to the future of how California addresses water supplies moving forward. It is, after all, considered a drought-proof water supply.”

Whether you call it “reclaimed” water or “recycled” water, it doesn’t really matter. A plant by wastewater of any name will always be green.

Before Matthew O’Carroll started working for UCSB’s Physical Facilities as a Water Conservation and Efficiency Employee, he was working with five other graduate students on his Master’s Thesis,

Laura Lomardo graduated from UCSB on June 15, 2014. See more of her work at www.laurajaynewrites.com. www.ucsbalum.com

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Alumni Arts

Alumni Authors Steven Attewell MA History ’07 - Ph.D. History ’13 Race for the Iron Throne: Political and Historical Analysis of “A Game of Thrones”

How historical, really, are books, movies and TV shows “based on actual events”?

Does The DaVinci Code bend the truth?

Is Argo basically a documentary? In what historical time period, if any, does Game of Thrones really take place?

Gaucho-Certified History buff Steven Attewell’s new book Race for the Iron Throne: Political and Historical Analysis of “A Game of Thrones” looks to answer at least one of these.

Since graduating from UCSB with a History M.A. in 2007 and a Ph.D. in 2013 Attewell has set to unravelling the “olden times”-looking hit HBO series Game of Thrones.

His book delves deep into the world originally created

by George RR Martin and into the real-world events that inspired the original narrative. Attewell also includes a Book vs. Show portion of his analysis which deals explicitly with the differences between the novels and the HBO series.

Race for the Iron Throne: Political and Historical Analysis of “A Game of Thrones” is available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1fKtk8J

Don Lake BA Electrical Engineering ’65 (first engineering dept graduating class) Orofino Wheels Change and timelessness, love and mourning, stop and go. Don Lake, ’65, deals with each of these immortal themes in his his new novel Orofino Wheels which traces the American automobile through the 20th Century. Orofino Wheels tells the stories of five different couples and their cars from five different decades. The cars evolve, the times change, but what about true love?

A member of the UCSB Engineering Department’s first ever graduating class, Don Lake’s newest work is the fifth in his series of HI-LO books, written for senior year high school students at a fourth grade reading level to encourage slow readers by featuring subject matter of interest to them, presented in a manner they can understand.

Find more work by Don Lake at dlakewriter.com

Chryss Yost ’97 Mouth & Fruit Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate is also a Gaucho. For the City Arts Commission-appointed Laureate’s two-year term, Chryss Yost, ’97, is tasked with promoting arts, both literary and otherwise, in and around the Santa Barbara community. To this end, Yost has written a poem for the installation of the new City Council and regularly recites poems at local events.

Recently Yost published her first book Mouth & Fruit—a collection of poems she worked on for 15 years—with Santa Barbara-based Gunpowder Press, a company name Yost herself came up with.

Fewer than 100 cities have Poet Laureates and Yost is just Santa Barbara’s fifth two-year appointment.

Mouth & Fruit is available at http://amzn.to/1kMjxfH and elsewhere.

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Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd: Comedy Classics of the Silent Era FREE summer film series July 9 through Aug. 22 Wednesdays at UCSB Campbell Hall – 7:30 p.m.

Fridays under the stars – Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden 8:30 p.m.

The Freshman, featuring Harold Lloyd Wed., July 9 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Fri., July 11 / 8:30 p.m. / Santa Barbara County Courthouse (with live accompaniment by Michael Mortilla) The Gold Rush, featuring Charlie Chaplin Wed., July 16 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Fri., July 18 / 8:30 p.m. / Santa Barbara County Courthouse

Gay Degani ’69 What Came Before Gay Degani is embroiled in the messy business of publishing fiction for a new media landscape. As founder of the Flash Fiction Chronicles, staff editor at Smokelong Quarterly, blogger at Words in Place, Degani hasn’t just been publishing extensively online and in print, she’s been pushing the limits of publishing formats at a time when her industry desperately needs innovation.

What Came Before, Degani’s debut full length novel, is equal parts murder mystery and psychological family drama and deals with issues of codependency and independence, habits and the trouble with breaking them. The novel is now available in hardback but was launched online through Every Day Novels. The launch was serialized so that every weekday from March 3 through June 6, 2014 a new 1000 word chapter became available to readers.

What Came Before is available at http://amzn.to/1uBjSJ4 and elsewhere.

Degani’s feature on A Life in Writing appears at Coastlines Online. http://bit.ly/gaydegani.

Dr Greg Ketchum Ph.D. Trapped in the Big Easy Dr. Gregory A. Ketchum, Ph.D. had seen a lot. But what he learned after he walked down into the lobby of the four-star New Orleans hotel he was staying in on the fourth day of Hurricane Katrina stuck with him. The lobby was empty. The front doors were chained and padlocked.

Dr Ketchum’s realizations about personal accountability in times of crisis are told simply and effectively in his new book Trapped in the Big Easy – A Hurricane, Leadership from the Heart and the Quest for a Life of Purpose. Dr. Ketchum is a former clinical psychologist turned CEO and a workplace leadership expert with further background in both radio and television. He now runs the leadership development firm Talent Planet.

Trapped in the Big Easy is available at http://amzn.to/1np1OO8

First Ever Gaucho Art Show Sherlock Jr., featuring Buster Keaton with Cops Wed., July 23 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Fri., July 25 / 8:30 p.m. / Santa Barbara County Courthouse* (with live accompaniment by Michael Mortilla) Girl Shy, featuring Harold Lloyd Wed., July 30 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall ONLY (Note: No Friday screening due to Old Spanish Days Fiesta at the Courthouse.)

The Navigator, featuring Buster Keaton with One Week Wed., Aug. 6 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall Fri., Aug. 8 / 8:30 p.m. / Santa Barbara County Courthouse (with live accompaniment by Michael Mortilla)

For more screening and information, please go to http://bit.ly/sbfilms Additional Sponsors: The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, Santa Barbara County Park Foundation, and the Community Services Department of Santa Barbara County.

Forty-eight artists who attended UCSB from 1950 - 2010 are participating in an alumni art show - a large-scale exhibition that celebrates the legacy and continued vibrancy of the Visuals Arts at UCSB. Called Starting Here, the show includes Neon Chair book arts, ceramics, Mary Heilmann (b. 1940; San Francisco) drawing, painting, performance, BA 1962 English photography, printmaking, sculpture and video.

Installations have been set up inside the Art, Design and Architecture Museum and throughout the College of Creative Studies Gallery since mid-May. The show began with 16 artists - a modest overview of the range of accomplishments of artists who attended UCSB. In June the show expanded to include 32 artists.

Submit your own work to the Alumni art show here: bit.ly/1rGr7LA www.ucsbalum.com

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Entrepreneurship From Student to Success: A Gaucho Grown Startup Goes Public The first team to win the UCSB Technology Management Program (TMP)’s New Venture Competition (NVC) included Alison Perry (now Alison Bauerlin). When Alison was a sophomore in 2000 she went home for Christmas where her grandmother was wheeling around an oxygen tank and giving the entire family a hard time. Young people, claimed the grandmother, Mae Stoneman (then 81), had all of this new, tiny technology so why couldn’t they make her oxygen tank go away?

On her return to campus, Alison assembled a

team and, after years of experts telling them it wasn’t possible, developed a portable oxygen concentrator that allowed her grandmother and now thousands of others, to get around without the heavy tanks. Alison called the company Inogen, which raised its first funding and produced its first prototype in 2002 and, after FDA approval, launched its first product in 2004. Inogen went public in 2008.

Now in its 15th year, the UCSB New Venture Competition is an opportunity for UCSB students to learn how to start a business. But every year it looks more and more like a preview of the future. “It’s cool stuff,” says TMP Entrepreneurial Programs Manager Mike Panesis, who says the goal of the NVC is “teaching students how to start a business. We take them from

NVC Winners Grand Prize $10,000 Tech Push, 1st Place - $10,000

ShadowMaps Andrew Irish, Daniel Iland & Jason Isaacs, Dayton Horvath,

“We started working on this through a project being funded by the Institute of Collaborative Biotech here at UCSB,” says ShadowMaps co-founder Andrew Irish.

“It’s an army research project. They’re interested in developing a drone like product that flies in cities. GPS is a problem in cities.”

So ShadowMaps has developed a business-to-business cloud-based software as a service solution that supplements GPS in urban environments. Their patented algorithms and custom 3D maps have already been field tested and show a 10x reduction of GPS error.

“We’re going to start out with our own app that’s going to be a find your phone app that improves the accuracy so not only can you get to the right building, you could get within 10 feet of your phone.”

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Elings Prize $5,000 People’s Choice $5,000 Market Pull 2nd Place $2,500

Salty Girl Seafood Norah Eddy, Laura Johnson, Gina Auriemma & Andreas Viggen

Salty Girl Seafood is a sustainable seafood distribution company that sources seafood products directly from fishermen and ships them direct to chefs. They provide customers with fresh, quality, sustainable seafood products.

Learn more about Salty Girl Seafood in this Coastlines’ Entrepreneurship section on page 19 and at saltygirlseafood.com “Santa Barbara is such a hub for start-ups and UCSB plays a pivotal role in the startup community,” says co-founder Norah Eddy. “As far as inspirations there are no shortages here, whether it’s amazing research, technology, other start-ups, or just the culture and surroundings in Santa Barbara in general. All of the local entrepreneurs both early stage as well as the uber-successful are or have been willing to risk it all. That inspires us daily.”

Bottle Branders Market Pull 1st Place $10,000

Max Lowenberg, Max Ludington & Harish Prather

Bottle Branders is working to make the beer growler a better product for small breweries.

“We’re trying to help small craft brewers get their beer to their customer’s homes,” says Bottle Branders co-founder Harish Prather.

“They aren’t able to do that because they can’t bottle everything.” So the team has developed products that help small breweries distribute their beer with better advertising and improved quality.

With their wood-themed display, up-beat pitch-style and stacks of branded cider jugs and beer growlers, Bottle Branders was a hit at both the preliminary round and at the NVC finals. One of their keys to success: the Technology Management Program’s contacts without which, says Prather, they wouldn’t have been “able to have the collaboration of different departments with different disciplines.

concept - ‘What’s a good business idea?’ to ‘What are all the things you need to know to start the business?’ to the spring competition events where we put them in front of people and hopefully get them some experience pitching their idea.”

The NVC’s first round in April was open to anyone who wanted to present. From these, six finalists were selected to pitch their ideas to investors in May. This year’s finalist help show the range of areas in which entrepreneurial Gauchos are looking to change the world.

NVC Finalists Cayuga Biotech

Tracy Chuong, Debbie Gee & Damien Kudela Tech Push, Tied for 2nd Place - $2,000 Cayuga Biotech is a startup company developing a commercially viable nanotherapeutic drug to treat both internal and external hemorrhage.

Their vision is to create a product that serves as a universal hemostat able to generate clots in all bleeding cases – compressible, non-compressible and internal injuries.

Fluency Lighting Technologies Kristin Denault, Jared Hulme & Daniel Moncayo Tech Push, Tied for 2nd Place - $2,000 “The collaborative environment, state of the art facilities, and expert colleagues at UCSB, have all led to the development of the technology that we are using to build our start-up,” says Kristin Denault, co-founder of Fluency Lighting, which leverages a technology developed at UCSB to provide a new approach to general illumination.

“The UCSB technology management program has also been an enormous source of guidance along the way.”

Fluency Lighting founders use an alternative light source to generate white light – a laser diode. Energy efficient and environmentally benign like LEDs, laser diodes can expand the

future applications of lighting, offering flexible design strategies, efficient high power light sources, and low cost maintenance.

“Within Santa Barbara area we have already established a number of contacts through Southern California Edison and the Illuminating Engineering Society,” says Denault. “The biggest help for us right now would be funding to accelerate the research and development of our products. We always look forward to meeting mentors, prospective investors, and other interested parties.”

To learn more about Fluency Lighting Technologies or to get involved with their development, email Kristin Denault at kristinadenault@gmail.com, Jared Hulme at jaredhulme@ece.ucsb.edu or Daniel Moncayo at moncayoda@gmail.com

Echo Eric Goodman, Brian Morton & Chase Racich Market Pull, 3rd Place - $1,000 “We want to build a mobile menu for every restaurant in Santa Barbara,” says Brian Morton, co-founder of Echo – a smartphone and web app that allows customers to order and pay within a restaurant over Bluetooth.

Currently restaurants are technologically underserved. With modern technology customers expect to have the ability to view menus, order, and pay with the touch of a finger. But this doesn’t mean the Echo team sees an impersonal future for restaurants. “Every time we talk to a restaurant owner, we can see the fire in their eyes. They love their businesses,” says Morton. “These restaurants want so badly to connect with their customers and share their food, mission, and ideals, we found an opportunity to create an application that does just that.”

The Echo team also finds inspiration beyond restaurants, in their student peers. “Whether they are trying to ace the MCAT for medical school or encourage the campus to divest from fossil fuels, students all over are putting themselves on the front line to succeed. That is inspiring.”

To get involved with Echo its founders ask that you visit orderwithecho.com and sign up for their newsletter. Subscribers will receive their first Echo purchase at 50% off.

Email: info@orderwithecho.com Facebook:facebook.com/orderwithecho

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Research Editorial contributions from the Alumni staff and staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

A “win-win” for UCSB and Mitsubishi Chemical as Partnership Renews “Organic electronics,” “emerging devices,” “functional next generation materials.”

These are just a few of the topics being explored by UCSB researchers at the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) - and the results are even more impressive than the names.

A new four year investment of nearly $6 million by Japan’s largest chemical company Mitsubishi Chemical will ensure this work stays on track - and why not? Over its first thirteen years, MC-

CAM produced more than 130 publications and 100 patent applications - one of the highest rates of invention production of any universitybased research program anywhere in the world.

MC-CAM can also claim big efficiencies in its technology generation, with a cost-perpatent of around $300,000 significantly below the averages of $500,000 for technology companies and $2.7 million for research universities.

“We have made great research strides in semiconductor materials, solar cells, and several other areas for which the applications will benefit industry and society,” commented Rod Alferness, Dean of the College of Engineering. “[Our]

partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical has proven successful and prolific, a win-win for both parties.”

The University of California owns inventions developed by university employees that derive from the research funded by Mitsubishi Chemical, and the company has first option for exclusive licenses to use these technologies.

Top. left: UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory building, home to the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials. Photo: Ian Barin.

Bottom: Researchers with the UCSB Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials recently demonstrated high carrier mobility for transistors made from semiconducting conjugated polymers.

Photo: Peter Allen/UCSB

UCSB Top-10-ranked on Scientific Impact List of International Universities UCSB took the number eight spot on Leiden University’s annual ranking of the top 750 major universities in the world in terms of scientific impact, and involvement in collaboration in the sciences and social sciences.

The ranking, based on data from the Web of Science bibliographic database produced by Thomson Reuters, is compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. It is a compilation of the top 750 universities worldwide with the largest publication output in the Web of Science database. Impact is determined AbyCommunity several indicators, including the average number of citations of the publications of ofa university, Scholars and the proportion of publications that belong in the top 10 percent most Cfrequently cited. Based on 2009 to 2012 numbers in the Web of Science database, UCSB’s scientific publications — which include papers in the areas of life, biomedical, mathematics, engineering, computer, natural, and social sciences and humanities — are cited an average of 11.11 times, and 21.2 percent of its scientific publications belong in the top 10 percent of most frequently cited publications.

The Leiden ranking does not use data from reputational surveys, or data provided by the universities themselves, and employs bibliometric methods—quantitative analyses of patterns of publication — to analyze the impact of and collaboration by the top 750 universities in the field of the sciences. onfidence and high aspiration are taught by

example. The distinction

of UC Santa Barbara’s professors is important to you because it serves

as a backdrop for achievement and opportunity. Their distinction also facilitates your ability to make im-

portant, career-enhancing contacts with decision makers in graduate

and professional schools and in the world at large.

 In addition to the winners of five Nobel Prizes, UCSB’s faculty includes many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 The 2006 Millennium Technology Prize—the world’s biggest technology award—was given to a professor of engineering for his invention of revolutionary new energy-saving light sources.

 UCSB is the editorial headquarters for The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, a National Endowment for the Humanities project that is publishing definitive scholarly editions of the complete works of naturalist and literary artist Henry David Thoreau.

Nobel Prizes in chemistry, eco-

nomics, and physics won in recent years by five distinguished UC

UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang, an aerospace engineer, believes that undergraduates help to generate some of the university’s best ideas.

A faculty member and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, he regularly teaches structural analysis courses to undergraduates.

UCSB introduces students to novel ways of thinking, learning, and conducting research. At left, the new physical sciences building.

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Santa Barbara professors for their groundbreaking interdisciplinary research have brought interna-

tional recognition to the campus.

UCSB’s renowned faculty also

includes scores of elected members

of national and international academies and societies.

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Prize-Winning Physics Professor Thanks Colleague, Students

Another Searle Scholar selected from UCSB

John Martinis, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Physics, has received the 2014 Fritz London Memorial Prize for his fundamental and pioneering experimental advances in quantum control, quantum information processing and quantum optics with superconducting qubits and microwave photons. He shares the honor with Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf of Yale University.

“I am greatly honored to be awarded the London Prize,” said Martinis, “and would like to thank Andrew Cleland and the many graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who worked with me that made this research possible.”

Along with Cleland, also a UCSB physics professor, Martinis received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Breakthrough of the Year award in 2010 for work showing quantum behavior of a mechanical oscillator.

Martinis is the second UCSB faculty member to win the London Prize.

Guenter Ahlers, professor of physics, was the recipient in 1978.

Irene Chen, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as a 2014 Searle Scholar.

“I am very honored to be selected as a Searle Scholar,” said Chen, who joined the UCSB faculty in 2013. “I’m really excited to use the methods that we developed to answer very fundamental questions about the beginnings of life, to explore new directions in biomedical research.”

Searle Scholars grants are $300,000 for a threeyear term with $100,000 payable each year of the grant, subject to the receipt of acceptable progress reports. Generally, the program makes 15 new grants annually.

Chen is the third UCSB recipient in the award’s 33-year history. Previous UCSB Searle Scholars include Joel Rothman (1992), a professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB), and Kathleen Foltz (1994), an associate professor in MCDB.

Research Throw-back: Forty Years After First Studies of Marathon Runners, A Gaucho Looks Back When Michael B. Maron, ’73, first visited UCSB’s Institute of Environmental Stress (IES) as an undergraduate, he “was fascinated by the marvelous facilities, which included temperature-controlled rooms, a hypobaric chamber, numerous treadmills, a catheterization laboratory for animal studies, and numerous support laboratories.” He quickly decided to pursue graduate work and in 1973, “under the direction of Steven M. Horvath, began a series of field and laboratory studies of marathon runners during competition.”

So begins Maron’s recent article in the American Physiological Society’s Journal of Advances in Physiological Education, which traces the author’s own graduate school story at UCSB’s IES through the earliest days of advanced, physiological research on

distance runners and high-performance athletes.

As a runner himself, Maron was convinced they needed to study subjects under race conditions as opposed to in simulated environments in the lab. So they converted a colleague’s van into a mobile blood sampling and biochemistry lab and drove it down to the starting line of the Santa Barbara Marathon, on the track at Santa Barbara City College. The rest, as they say, is history.

Photos: Michael Maron and the American Physiological Society’s Journal of Advances in Physiological Education.

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Research Editorial contributions from the Alumni staff and staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

UCSB Researchers Create Regional Ocean Health Index The world’s first Ocean Health Index regional assessment designed to evaluate the economic, social and ecological uses and benefits that people derive from the ocean has been created by researchers from UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB) and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, in collaboration with scientists from Conservation International.

Unlike the existing Global Ocean Health Index, this new scale assesses ocean health with respect to the benefits and services it provides to people both now and in the future and takes into account local and regional data which allows state scores to be calculated and compared but makes comparison to other country scores impossible. Because of the length of its coastline and its dependence on ocean-based commerce, Brazil was chosen for the new index’s first assessment. “This is the first time we’ve been able to gather in a

Seaside

single index the environmental, social and economic goods and services provided by the ocean specific to Brazil,” said lead author Cristiane Elfes, an EEMB graduate student at UCSB. Using a scale of 0-100, the index produces scores for each of 10 categories — Artisanal Fishing Opportunities; Biodiversity; Carbon Storage; Clean Waters; Coastal Protection; Food Provision; Livelihoods & Economies; Natural Products; Sense of Place; and Tourism & Recreation. A score of 100 means the country is enjoying optimal productivity from the ocean in a sustainable way.

“The index provides an assessment that includes jobs, revenues, coastal protection and clean water, among many other measures, such that changes in the ocean overall can be tracked and understood,” said Benjamin Halpern, a professor at the Bren School and a long-standing associate of NCEAS. “Our results provide baseline scores for each Brazilian

Since obtaining his BA from UCSB and MBA from the University of Massachusetts, jack of all trades Steve Cummings, ’69, has worked with labor groups, in publishing, bank regulation and finance. Now Cummings has changed his tune again and is working to have Seaside—the UCSB fight song he wrote in 1968—adopted. “I have always believed that is it important for the campus to have a full-length piece like this for campus 18

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coastal state and thus a means to identify where problems and opportunities exist as well as a framework for strategically evaluating potential management actions.”

Project partners are UCSB’s NCEAS, Conservation International, the New England Aquarium and National Geographic. Major support for the project was provided by the Beau and Heather Wrigley Foundation and the Pacific Life Foundation, the founding presenting sponsor. photo: Claire Fackler

events and for general use,” says Cummings, who wants to see Seaside played at basketball and soccer games and by the Music Department’s chamber orchestra. “It needs to be performed locally, in public, at the right venue if it is going to be accepted by the campus community.”

Listen to Seaside online, get the sheet music and let us know what you’d like to hear at Gaucho sports matches.

Out on the Water One team of UCSB Grad students’ plan to take the -ish out of fish When you look out on the ocean what do you see? Waves, horizon, beauty, suggestion of the earth’s curvature, hints at the SEAFOOD PROBLEM infinite? A team of UCSB graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management see all of that, plus a $400 billion industry plagued with an information problem.

Thirty-three percent of all seafood sold in the United States is mislabeled, according to a 2012 study by Oceana, an international organization committed to ocean conservation.

SALTY GIRL SOLUTION This number applies to all seafood sold in grocery stores and in restaurants, and it varies depending on where you are in the country. In the Seattle area the study found just 18% mislabeled, in Southern California it found 52%, which means when you go to the store and try to buy a $27 piece of Grouper, there’s a good chance you’re getting a $15 piece of Tilapia.

Enter UCSB’s Salty Girl Seafood team who not only have the qualifications to see and understand the problem but have the imagination to fix it. Their plan is to give fishermen on-board tools to label what they catch with rich information about both the fish in the packaging and how it was caught. Then they’ll set up a marketplace for traceable, sustainable seafood where buyers place orders which are sent directly from the fishermen who catch the fare - cutting out up to three third-party middlemen from the traditional supply chain.

Support this UCSB startup through their crowd-funding campaign at http://bit.ly/SaltyGirl.

Find the Salty Girls on Facebook and on Twitter or at Saltygirlseafood.com

From Hooks to Harpoons – a Gaucho seaman traces local fishing’s history Since graduating from UCSB Santa Barbara’s current harbor operations manager Mick Kronman, ’72, has spent over 40 years working off Santa Barbara’s shores in commercial, research and other capacities. His new fishing history book From Hooks to Harpoons deals with markets, technology and a range of other surprisingly charming, nautical topics.

The book is available through independent booksellers and at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. To order the book, email the museum’s Executive Director Greg Gorga at ggorga@sbmm.org

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Features

— Military Research at UCSB, A Virus-powered battery, Coastlines sits down with cadets

The Army and the MOTH George Thurlow, ’73

A moth’s eye.

A squid’s skin.

A gecko’s foot.

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These rather mundane animal parts all contain super evolutionary properties that would make the X Men jealous and one day could save a U.S. soldier on a far off battlefield.

Just as likely is that one day these animal kingdom secrets of biology and structural engineering will open up doors to human experience that we can only imagine today. They

have the potential to cure cancer, allow electric cars to cross the country without charging, and indicate who among us is best equipped to make life and death decisions.

Moth photo: Wikipedia: Didier Descouens

A moth’s eye contains reflective material that is beyond anything known to humans.

A squid’s skin changes color with such diversity and speed that it could make traditional camouflage seem antiquated.

The gecko’s foot has adhesive’s that could allow robots and someday, humans to climb walls and sheer cliffs.

The list goes on and on, from shellfish

One day it could provide protection for

calcium building qualities to the adhesive

soldiers in combat trying to evade enemy

qualities of a single virus cell.

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All these secrets are being unlocked by the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology (ICB) centered on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The ICB, with affiliate labs and researchers at MIT and Cal Tech, is radically transforming how research is done at UCSB by bringing together biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers. The funding is coming from the U.S. Army with more than $118 million over the last decade to fund unclassified research in basic biology and engineering. In December the Army agreed to double down its investment, pouring $48 million into the ICB over the next three years.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the Army funding is in the area of brain injury and human body chemistry. Already researchers at UCSB have mapped out a methodology to identify traumatic brain injuries as well as later onset of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This technology holds huge potential for addressing one of the Iraq-Afghanistan Wars most debilitating features, as well as for addressing brain trauma injuries in civilian head trauma.

Additional research in this area, which is combining super Magnetic Imaging machines and new technologies for mapping brain impulses, is looking at microscopic changes in brain chemistry as humans make decisions, face crisis, or even tell a lie.

What is most dramatic at the ICB is that it is bringing together some of the brightest stars on campus and off to work together, including Nobel Prize winner Alan Heeger and MacArthur Prize winner Angela Belcher (see following article).

One of the great ironies of the research is that with the exception of what was mostly an accidental demonstration during an ICB-Army conference in 2008 at UCSB there has been little controversy surrounding the research. The reason, according to ICB researchers, is that all military research at the University of California is unclassified and all is published. There is no secret research being done at UCSB and everything that is being discovered is being revealed as fast as it is found.

At the same time, almost all of the research at UCSB is aimed at saving the lives of soldiers in the field. It is not about winning wars and building better bombs, it is about making sure the soldier we send into the field has a fighting chance.

So for example, Angela Belcher’s research on creating smaller and more effective batteries is of interest to the Army because the modern soldier is increasingly a communications and data hub, carrying radios, GPS units, sensors and other electronic gear. It all needs batteries and it all needs batteries that are light and last a long time.

On the other hand, ICB research into the hard shell of the California mussel, which survives abrasive blasts from sands,

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could one day provide insights into building blastproof body armor.

The common theme in all this research is to find biological mechanisms in nature and determine if they can be applied to modern technology.

As co-director of ICB Steve Grafton explains, “The common mission of ICB is to use inspirations from biological systems to solve these basic challenges: How are materials designed in natural systems? How do organisms solve different networking problems? How are biological organisms made more resilient.”

David Gay, the ICB Director of Technology, says ICB research is 20 years ahead of its time. “What we have is engineers working on biology problems. What is happening here is you are taking engineers and their whole tool set of understanding systems and using that to analyze biological systems.”

Nobody epitomizes the multi-disciplinary approach and achievements at UC Santa Barbara more than ICB Director and Chemical Engineering Department Chair Frank Doyle.

Doyle and his large group of graduate and post-graduate students are working on communication systems in nature that could be used in human sensor equipment. Doyle’s study of the circadian clock, the natural rhythm in nature of sleep and activity, has brought about new discoveries that not only include communication systems built from the method that cells use to communicate sleep and action, but also ways to overcome jet lag and identify PTSD. Also coming out of Doyle’s work outside of ICB is the invention of an artificial pancreas that could dramatically improve the lifestyle of diabetics.

To ensure the continued success of ICB and the bio-medical research that is spinning out of UCSB, the campus and state have committed to building a $74 million bioengineering building that will house ICB and the Center for Bioengineering, the hotbed of medical research at UCSB. The building should be inhabited by 2017.

The new building, by bringing researchers into closer collaboration, will accelerate scientific progress Doyle promises.

He added, “This investment in campus resources reflects UCSB’s growing prominence in research at the interface of the life sciences and engineering. We already enjoy a reputation for research excellence in those fields but this investment will ensure that we continue to grow and excel in our endeavors as they require more complex laboratory facilities.”

So when you see the headline, “Army pays for Moth Research” don’t be fooled. Some day it will save a life.

Will a Virus Power Your Next Cell Phone?

George Thurlow ’73 How a UCSB Alumna Is Building A Revolutionary Battery In less than two decades the batteries that power cell phones have gone from hefty window smashing bricks to tiny, almost invisible tabs.

Now, a UC Santa Barbara Alumna is taking batteries to their next evolution, where they will be even more tiny and built to fit any shape.

Angela Belcher, who at 46 has won some of the nation’s most prestigious research awards, is using viruses to build a smaller, more environmentally friendly and more powerful

then be “panned” to separate those cells that will attach to nanowires of cobalt oxide and carbon.

Belcher continues the academic career she learned at UCSB. Besides leading the ICB effort at MIT, she is part of a separate team at MIT that is working on building a cancer probe that designed so that genetically engineered virus tubes would latch onto cancer tumors and produce telltale markers. Once that sensor is developed, the next logical step is to engineer viruses that could attack cancer cells by latching onto them.

The work has brought Belcher fame and

battery. She is a dual alumna

the beginnings of a small fortune. The

of UC Santa Barbara, having

Economist magazine ran a long

received her bachelor of

profile of her work in the May

science in the College of

7, 2014 issue. She has received

Creative Studies in 1991 and a

the MacArthur “genius” award

doctorate in chemistry in 1997.

and was named by Time Magazine

She now leads the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Her work has focused on genetically modifying viruses so that their cells will attach to certain inorganic materials in such a way as to create electronic circuits. While it sounds simple, it is in fact a revolutionary marriage of basic biology and materials engineering. It led to international acclaim in an article she authored in Science in 2009 and a recent demonstration of the potential for new types of batteries for President Obama. Ultimately she and her team hope to develop a virus battery that can power an electric car, an idea that would have seemed whacky only a few years ago but now seems totally feasible.

It all dates back to Belcher’s time at UC Santa Barbara where she acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of the College of Creative Studies allowed her to move easily from biology to engineering. Her research began as a doctoral student at UCSB studying how an abalone builds its shell.

That basic biological process inspired Belcher to seek ways that she could build batteries using natural processes—in this

a “hero” for her work on fighting climate change. Even Rolling Stone called her one of the most important 100 people changing the world in 2009.

She and her colleagues have spun off several successful biotechnology firms, including Siluria Technologies and Cambrios, a world leader in manufacturing silver nanowire for some of the world’s largest producers of computer technology.

In 2006 she received the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. As she recently told Nature.of her experience in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, “It was one of the best decisions I ever made. I could take risks, and it allowed me to put different topics together. I worked in plant molecular biology, physics and chemistry labs and did ecology research.

Later, as a doctoral student, I worked with a physicist, a molecular biologist and an inorganic chemist. It was like a playground for multidisciplinary science. “ Today the playground includes curing cancer, solving global warming and finding how nature can really build a better world.

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Leaders by Example

By Shelly Leachman,

UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs & Development Writer

Roger Drue attended UC Santa Barbara on a whim. A high school sports standout from the Bay Area, he was bound for UCLA and a college football career until a chance stop changed his mind.

“I turned off the freeway at Storke Road to fill up with gas and just never left,” Drue said, recalling that fateful day in 1963. “I drove through Isla Vista, where they had just paved the road, and said, ‘I think this is pretty cool.’ I talked to my dad about transferring to UCSB and he was supportive.

That was the end of the story.”

In fact, Drue’s story was only beginning. At that time — the Vietnam War and the draft were in full swing — UCSB required every male student to join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), the U.S. Army’s effort to groom students as commanders. Drue joined because he had to; when participation became optional his sophomore year, he stayed on because he so strongly believed in the program that prioritized leadership above all else.

“It wasn’t all training drills and war, though war was on our minds back then,” Drue, who graduated

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in 1967, said of his time in ROTC. “The whole idea was learning how to manage, how to lead, how to get along with people. They always told us the key is to figure out how to motivate your team members — your company, your battalion, whatever it is — because if you can’t do that, you can’t be successful.”

After spending four years on active duty in Vietnam as a Medical Services Corps captain, Drue moved on to corporate life. He would eventually become the CEO of a multihospital, multiclinic health care system in Hawaii, the capstone on his 30-year career in hospital administration. To this day, he credits his ROTC experience at UCSB for his accomplishments.

“I applied the principles of leadership and keys to success that I learned in ROTC to every job I’ve ever had,” Drue said, This page: Alexandria Schmidt UCSB ROTC cadet. Cadet Alexandria Schmidt, a senior Japanese major who will graduate and comission in June, earned the top rating at last summer’s national ROTC leadership course. Photo: Courtesy Surfrider Battalion Facing page, left: UCSB ROTC cadets rappel. Twice during each academic year, ROTC cadets travel to a California military base for three days of intensive training exercises. Photo: Courtesy Surfrider Battalion. Top right: UCSB ROTC training. Members of Surfrider Battalion, UCSB’s Army ROTC program, meet for physical training early mornings on campus. Photo: Tony Mastres

“and they were very helpful my entire career.”

Which is exactly the message that UCSB’s ROTC program, known on campus as Surfrider Battalion, aims to impart not only to existing cadets but also to prospective and current students seeking a clear path to employment and beyond.

“I was speaking to a new cadet, a freshman, who told me that part of what drew him to ROTC is knowing that four years from now he has a place to go — a stable job, a career if he wants it,” said Lt. Col. George Davis, commanding officer of the campus program and UCSB Professor of Military Science.

“These students are not going through college wondering, ‘What am I going to do when I graduate?’ From day one, they have that security of a job waiting for them. Nowhere else on campus can you get that.

“And there is no other program that offers this degree of leadership training,” Davis added. “Whether you want a military career, a career in corporate America or to start your own business, ROTC will prepare you to lead. That’s what it’s all about.”

Since graduating its first three cadets in 1949, the UCSB battalion has seen nearly 1,100 students commission as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve or U.S. Army National Guard. In exchange for college scholarships, they contract to serve four years in active duty, or eight years in the Reserve or Guard. There are currently 70 cadets in the UCSB program; 11 will commission this June.

In addition to financial support, cadets earn a wealth of training in leadership, whether their sights are set on a military career or private industry. By combining management theory with hands-on experience, Army ROTC aims to develop in its cadets the self-discipline, mental agility and interpersonal and communication skills, among other things, seen as essential to commanding a unit — or running a business.

Cadet Alexandria Schmidt has a firm handle on all of the above. Set to graduate UCSB and commission as an Army officer in June, the Bakersfield-born Japanese major said she’s come a long way as a leader since joining ROTC her freshman year.

“Leadership for me is about influencing others and setting the example — not only for my subordinates but also for my peers — under any circumstance,” Schmidt said. “And thanks to my experience in ROTC, I feel more confident making difficult decisions or completing difficult tasks without feeling overwhelmed. And I now feel very comfortable and confident facing a task I may not have been familiar with previously.”

She can prove it, too.

With an overall rating of “E,” for “Exceeds the Standard,” Schmidt was a Surfrider standout last summer at the Leadership Development and Assessment Course (LDAC), a requirement for all third-year ROTC cadets nationwide and a key factor in determining post-commission assignments. The better a cadet’s score, the better www.ucsbalum.com

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UCSB’s Surfrider Battalion has 70 cadets for the 2013-2014 academic year; 11 will commission in June as 2nd Lts. in the U.S. Army.

Photo: George Foulsham

the chance of landing in his or her preferred branch; Schmidt is keen on military intelligence.

“It would have been much more difficult to get this much leadership experience without ROTC,” Schmidt added. “My roommate helps put on events as part of an internship, where she organizes based on what her employer wants. In ROTC, we are charged to put on events that we develop, set up and run on our own.

“Good leaders are people who can convince others to trust them and to believe in the goal of their mission,” she added. “Sometimes being a good leader means you can follow orders as well.”

Army 1st Lt. Jon Kopecky does all of that and more in the Armor Branch. A 2012 UCSB grad, he’s a recent addition to a Surfrider alumni list that includes Brig.

Cozying Up with Cadets An ROTC Officer and a Gaucho Marine sit down with Coastlines to discuss splitting commitments and life in the service at UCSB

Sean T. Di Ciolli Both of my parents’ families were in the service. Never as careers, but just four year enlistments during WWII and Vietnam, which is kind of what I did.

I attended Ventura College for about two years

However, the timing of my enlisting had more to do with external factors. The Battle of Fallujah occurred in the fall of 2004 and that’s when I knew I had to make myself available in the reserves, so I could

and then enlisted in the reserves. I received my UCSB

deploy as needed. I saw a picture in the newspaper of a Marine pulling

acceptance letter while in basic training, which was

himself out of an armored vehicle with his sleeve on fire. This got me

pretty cool. The drill instructor asked if I was a reservist

thinking “Why am I better than this guy? He’s doing his part.” That’s

and rolled his eyes when I answered yes. This made

what propelled me to go into the Marines sooner rather than later. I

me laugh on the inside (being a reservists is looked

would have done it anyways – I just might have gotten the degree first

down upon by some). Upon completion of training, I

The major drawback I didn’t expect coming back to school after Iraq

served two tours of Iraq and after, came back to UCSB

was not being able to focus as much as I used to. While on active duty,

for about a year and a half, to then be mobilized to

you are encouraged not to think too much since you are supposed to

Afghanistan immediately after graduation.

concentrate on the present task at hand. I found it hard to reignite the

I’ve always thought everyone has a purpose. You’re here to make the world a better place, and when you’re

analytical thought process and not just take things at face value.

Rallying for a cause that you believe in is important. Give your early

young and in your twenties, it’s good to have a cause.

twenties to public service, or whatever it is. A few years is nothing

For me, the military was always about being a part of

in the grand scheme of things. There are other opportunities besides

something bigger than myself.I believe in giving peoples’

the military you can partake in, such as, Peace Corps, volunteering

the ability to be free and the benefit their freedom

in the community, or anything so you can look back and say, “I did

attributes to our national security/interest.

that, I helped, I did my part and I am proud of that.” That’s what’s so

The major drawback I didn’t expect coming back to

important to me. Even when at times it felt like my teeth were getting

school after Iraq was not being able to focus as much as I

kicked in, and the delays it caused in earning my degree and starting my

used to. While on active duty, you’re kind of encouraged

career, I look back and am happy everything worked out with my safe

not to think too much since you are supposed to

return and my emerging career. It didn’t always go as I planned, but I

concentrate on the present task at hand. It was kind of

wouldn’t ask for anything to be different; I’m glad I did what I did.

hard to reignite the analytical thought process and not

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Gen. Chester Ward (1954), who became a White House physician; Robert Ballard (1965), the oceanographer and explorer best known for discovering the wreckage of the Titanic; and Brig. Gen. Eric Wendt (1986), currently the commanding general of Special Operations for U.S. Forces Korea.

Kopecky is in notable company, to say the least.

Crediting ROTC with giving him “direction and motivation” as a college student, as well as a “sense of purpose upon graduation,” Kopecky said the leadership ethics he gleaned as a Surfrider are directly connected to his current success.

“Now, as a lieutenant, the Army has given me a whole host of opportunities,” he said. “I lead and mentor soldiers from all backgrounds and walks of life, I am mentored by experienced

soldiers who have made a career out of leadership and I regularly plan and accomplish complex, challenging missions. I am paid to travel and held to a standard of excellence in performance and physical fitness. And I am paid comparably to most of my fellow graduates of UCSB who became accountants, consultants or engineers in the civilian workforce.

“Whether I choose to stay in the Army for several years or go into the civilian world,” Kopecky continued, “I feel that I will do so with virtually endless opportunities, thanks in large part to the foundation of success that UCSB ROTC helped me build.”

Kathy Chinchilla “I didn’t know about

“My parents came from a very very impoverished

ROTC until I got here. It was

background – my dad didn’t have shoes until he was like

orientation day and I saw

13. And he came to own two homes and brand new cars

the army building and I had

every four or five years. If I wanted something and it was

dated someone who was in

within a reasonable price I would have it. And I thought

the service and I just loved his

to myself ‘If my dad could do that, imagine what I can

job. I loved it. All aspects of

do at this stepping stool you know? I just always had this

it: the comradery he had with

ambition like I don’t know where this ambition comes

friends he worked with, the

from to this day. I just know I had that ambition that I’m

whole aspect of deployment,

going to be somebody high up there.

the professionalism, the fact

“I definitely want to reach captain, get my masters,

that he came from a background

at that point it’s all depending upon whether I love the

in Palmdale where most people just don’t end up succeeding in life –

army as much as I thought I would because it’s one

don’t go to college, don’t do much with their lives - and he comes back

thing being in ROTC and a whole ‘nother thing being in

successful, 21, new car, professional.

the Army. It’s contingent upon that. I know that within

“I’m like ‘The Army gave you that?’ he’s like ‘Yeah.’ I thought it was amazing.

“At first I just wanted to work out with them. Workouts were intense because I wasn’t accustomed to waking up so early, the

those ten years I want to come out, have commanded a company, have my masters and end up working for a big [accounting] firm.”

You know, I want to be a high speed commander and

intensity. Then I adapted and I just like the challenge of it because I’m

I want to be a partner. I want to say I did that and I can

a person that likes to get challenged. If I see no challenge in something

do that.”

I just don’t find it interesting. That’s what drives me - challenge. And that’s what the Army offered.”

“I took the initiative. I walked into that office over the summer

Sean DiCiolli and Kathy Chinchilla have worked as finance interns for the UCSB Alumni Association.

during orientation and told them: ‘this is what I have to offer, this is my GPA, these are my intentions - I’m not sure if I want to do Army but I want to try it out.’

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Well Traveled Gauchos

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After graduation, most end up staying close to the California Coast.

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Explore the data for yourself in our interactive alumni map at http://bit.ly/alumni-map To get in touch with fellow alumni near you or to help bring Gauchos together in your area, visit http://bit.ly/gaucho-regions

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1960s Randall Englund ’68, published his 5th and 6th books in 2012 on The Complete Project Manager.

1970s Michael A. Leonard, Esq. ’71 practiced veterans’ law for almost 40 years. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates (NOVA)®, and as its Vice President for the last four years. Leonard is married and has four children, the oldest of whom was born shortly before Leonard’s graduation from UCSB. He still misses the beauty of Santa Barbara, the challenge of UCSB and the excitement of Isla Vista in the laste ’60’s an early ’70s.

Bill Statler ’73, is the co-author of the “Guide to Local Government Finance in California” published

by Solano Press in July 2012. He is also the recipient of the Cal-ICMA Ethical Hero Award for his service to the City of Bell in the aftermath of wellpublicized scandals.

Craig Park ’75, joined the New Beginnings Counseling Center’s board of directors. Park serves as the the program director of mental health services at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. For the past 26 years he has been responsible for developing, implementing and overseeing a comprehensive clinical continuum of mental health and substance use services. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Santa Barbara and his master’s degree in psychology from Antioch University in San Francisco. In addition to his work at Cottage Hospital, Park is active in teaching and training developing clinicians in the U.S. and overseas.

Karen Jones Grandidier ’77, has been appointed to the board of directors of St. Vincent’s a Catholic nonprofit human service agency based in Santa Barbara.

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served as chair of St. Vincent’s finance committee. A 30-year employee of Cottage Health System, she is currently the vice president of finance for the hospital group. She is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association. She received her master’s degree in health administration from CSU Northridge.

Curtis Edwards, ’79, retired from active general surgery practice. Edwards is now practicing part-time as a FAA Aerospace Medical Examiner and is enjoying flying and sailing.

1980s Jill Muchow Rode ’89, was selected as Chief Financial Development Officer for the Channel Islands YMCA. She brings over 20 years of experience in fundraising in the Santa Barbara and neighboring communities to the YMCA. She currently serves on the Sustainer Board of the Junior League and at her daughter’s schools.

Lansing McLoskey ’89, was appointed Full Professor at the University of Miami Frost School of Music this spring. McLoskey won First Prize in the 2014 Red Note Festival Composition Competition and was a Guest Composer at the festival, and is currently working on a commission from Ensemble Berlin Piano Percussion and a Barlow Commission for ensemberlino vocale, a professional chamber choir in Berlin.

Two CDs of his music were released to critical praise in late 2011.

He received a 2013 Aaron Copland Fund Grant, Third Prize in the 2013 American Prize for Music Composition, and was a Guest Composer at the Tanglewood Institute for masterclasses and a performance.

1990s Matthew Damron, ’91, joined Javelin Marketing Group as Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development. Damron previously was Global Chief Marketing

Officer of Sonosite, a division of FujiFilm, from 2011 through 2013. .

He has also worked at TBWA as its Managing Director, liaison for health within the Omnicrom network and McCann Relationship Marketing as Senior Vice President Group Marketing Director. As a college freshman at UCSB, Damron ran and became a partner in Great Days Publishing, a mail order catalog company specializing in personalized gifts for new mothers, which he later sold.

Jay Carlander BA ’92 PhD ’03, joined the New Beginnings Counseling Center Board of Directors.

The New Beginnings Counseling Center offers needed counseling, shelter, and support services to low and moderate-income clients.

Carlander earned a doctorate degree in U.S. history from UCSB. He has taught history at UCSB, Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD., and Santa Barbara City College as well as conducted archival research throughout the U.S. Carlander has experience in development in the social sector and is committed to organizations that promote social and economic justice, educational access, educational excellence and support for those facing physical and mental health challenges.

2000s Arthur Munoz III ’00, was promoted to senior vice president, senior relationship manager for Rabobank N.A.’s Middle Market Division.

Munoz joined the bank in 2009 and previously held commercial banking roles at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust and Bank of Santa Barbara. Rabobank N.A. is a premier California community bank known for personalized service and its wide range of banking, lending and wealth-management offerings for individual, business, and food and agribusiness clients.

Eduardo Angeles, ’87 Appointed in early July to be associate administrator for airports, a top executive position that has been vacant since the departure of Christa Fornarotto in January. Angeles currently serves as the senior assistant city attorney in Los Angeles, where he is assigned to the department of water and power, the largest publicly owned utility in the nation. Previously he served as general counsel to Los Angeles World Airports where he oversaw all legal matters for four major airports in Southern California: LAX, Ontario, Van Nuys, and Palm Dale. Prior to that Angeles worked at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, as in-house counsel to San Francisco International Airport

Scott Anderson ’03, was promoted to Partner at Sensiba San Filippo LLP, a leading Northern Californiabased CPA and business-consulting firm. In 2012, Scott’s hard work and dedication was recognized by the firm when he was invited to join SSF’s unique Partner-in-Training program.

In 2013, Anderson was recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal on its exclusive “40 under 40” list.

Kunal Agarwal ’03, was on track to making partner at one of the top financial firms, but his move into

Jennifer M. Herges ’08, graduated from Fresno State University ‘12, M.A. Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies. She is now teaching dear at Fairfax High School in Hollywood, CA.

private equity led him to realize where his passions lay: to lead a company from its conception. Agarwal joined Giant Pixel Corporation as a Giant Pixel Entrepreneur in Residence. At the Giant Pixel Corporation Agarwal is able to tap into the brainpower of the three managing partners at Giant Pixel. Agarwal hopes to see the building blocks he built implemented at Giant Pixel in the future.

Gregg Weisstein ’03, and David Daneshagar founded BloomNation, an online floral marketplace that allows customers to shop directly with the local florist. BloomNation has well over 2,000 florists across the country, delivering to over 3,000 cities.

Cami Rouse ’05 and James Statler ’04, married, bought a house and welcomed their daughter Autumn all in 2013. Cami and James have been awarded Top 20 under 40 honors and are recognized as young leaders in their community of San Luis Obispo.

Amy Hyne ’06, was selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as one of the 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2014. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. Hyne is a doctoral candidate in Asian Cultures and Languages at the University of Texas at Austin. .

David Wiener, ’09, received J.D. from UC Davis King Hall, 2013 and was awarded the UC Davis Law School Medal for the highest Academic Achievement in the graduating class.

Gillian Mellon ’11, graduated with a Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, CA on May 17, 2014 and will be sitting for the California State Bar Exam in July 2014.

IN MEMORIAM David E. Lamb ’55, passed away May 1, 2014 after a short battle with cancer.

Dave was born in Santa Barbara and was an eighth generation Santa Barbara native. He attended Santa Barbara High School and University California Santa Barbara. He was part of the first graduating class from UCSB at its’ current location in Goleta. He met Barbara Durning Lamb at UCSB and they married at the Santa Barbara Mission in 1956. Out of college he worked in the insurance business, Harris and Frank on State Street and finally purchased the Tree House Restaurant from his brother. He was involved with ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) and was instrumental in running the local chapters. After the passing of his wife, he returned to the work force, working in the Isla Vista property management office of his daughter. He is survived by his daughter, Valerie Lamb Sweatt, grand daughter Julianne Marie Sweatt, and brother Ed Lamb.

Maya Marquardt Ashworth ’62, passed away on Aril 27, 2014 in San Luis Obispo. She graduated with a major in political science and minor in English.

She was emplyed by the Los Angeles Scool District where she was a gifted secondary school teacher.

Janice Ann Tolotti Chelini ’67 M.A. ’74, died April 9, 2014. She passed away after a long battle with cancer at the age of 77. Janice earned her first degree in Sociology and Math from UCSB which paved her way to being a pioneer in programs in PASCAL, FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC. She then got her Master’s degree in Computer Science from UCSB and then a Master’s Business Administration in 1977 from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Her works led her to design a user interface for the NASA Space Shuttle.

She taught computer programming at UCSB Extension and Santa Barbara City College. She is survived by her children, Karen, Marilyn, Eric and Remy.

Hal G Moore PhD ’67, died on May 4, 2014 at 84. Moore graduated from South High in 1946 and served an LDS mission in the Netherlands from 1984-1951.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Utah and taught school in Salt Lake City and Carbon College before returning to the University of Utah to receive his masters degree. Moore joined the faculty at Purdue and later accepted a position at BYUs math department. He then completed his PhD at UCSB. He is survived by his three children, David Moore, Nora Hess, and Alison Moore.

Dana Craig ’70, died March 20 of a heart attack in his home in West Hills.

He was 68. Craig appeared in films and plays during his five-decade career.

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in Saint Joan with Richard Thomas, toured with Florence Henderson in The Sound of Music and appeared at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He also taught acting at Cal State Northridge.

In addition to acting he did extensive voice over work. Survivors include his son, Dana Jr., his sister, Durrie, and his brother, John.

Dr. Norman F. Sprague III ’69, passed away March 14, 2014 while on a family vacation in Costa Rica. He served as a Trustee for the UC Santa Barbara Foundation since 2000. Norman provided early leadership with the Outreach Center for Teaching Ocean Science (OCTOS) supporting the campaign through philanthropy and advice. He was a celebrated orthopedic surgeon with a private practice in the Santa Barbara area, taught at UCLA and lectured throughout Europe and North America.

He was also an outstanding private investment manager; co-founder and general partner of Cyprus Partners and Cyprus Real Estate, LLC, managing equity and fixed income portfolios as well as ranch property. Survivors include his wife Marianne and his family.

Donald Henry French ’70, passed away February 1, 2014 after a prolonged battle with cancer. French was 64. Don was born in Oakland, CA. He graduated from Cupertino High and later received a BA in Political Science from UCSB. During his college years, Don was the program director for KCSB. He started his own Graphic Design firm, Don French & Associates in the early 1970’s and continued to work until late last year.

He was also a professor and Program Chair for Graphic Design at Brooks Institute. He is survived by his wife Janet Nancarrow French and his children: Bodine French, Cody French, Carlene Wilson and Carson French.

Peter Anthony Fragla ’08, passed away April 2, 2014, He was 47. He moved to Santa Barbara in 2000 and in 2008 he graduated with honors from UCSB, earning a BA in Economics. He loved working for Berti Spechler Sariento McKay and Company of Santa Barbara.

He is survived by his siblings, John S.

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Fragala and Paul Fragala, Tom Fragala, Elizabeth Fragala, Jake and Luke Fragala and Enzo Goodrich.

Nicholas Crews Johnson, a sophomore majoring in psychology in the College of Letters and Science and member of the UCSB Men’s Water Polo team passed away in Santa Barbara on March 24, 2014.

Sierra Cheyenne Markee-Winkler, a second year at UCSB double majoring in philosophy and in language, culture, and society in the College of Letters and Science passed away in Isla Vista on May 4, 2014.

FRIENDS OF UCSB Anthony Brueckner, professor of philosophy at UCSB passed away April 7, 2014. Brueckner joined UCSB as a visiting associate professor in 1987 after having taught at Yale and the University of Arkansas. He served as chair of the UCSB Department of Philosophy for four years. . He is survived by his wife, Leslie and his two sons, Kurt and Kim. Luis Goena died from pneumonia complications after vocal-cord surgery one week before his 86th birthday last February 9. Goena had led a fight to preserve the stage in Oak Park. Goena was born in Carpinteria, attended UCSB in the 1950s. He worked for the polo fields and managed to buy up enough rental properties to retire early and also acquire the compound behind the mission, where he raised eight children and some goats.

Robert Lee Puddicombe passed away peacefully at the Serenity House in Santa Barbara on May 18, 2014. His last place of residence was Friendship Manor in Goleta. He majored in “surfing” and would periodically return to UCSB working towards a biology degree but ended up getting an associate degree in Diving from the Santa Barbara City College. Puddicombe made a living as

an abalone diver in Santa Barbara with his own boat and as a deep sea diver in the North Sea and the Caribbean. He also drove SB city buses and the SB Air Bus. He is remembered for starting the Channel Island Preservation Society.

He is survived by his mother, Virginia Puddicombe and his sister, Ilene Ann Matejko.

Alan J. Wyner, passed away on April 16, 2014. Wyner was born October 26, 1941 in Cleveland Ohio. He attended Northwestern University, receiving his B.A. in 1964 and earning his PhD at the Ohio State University in 1967. Wyner joined the Department of Political Science at UCSB in 1968 and became a well-loved member of the faculty.

Wyner received several awards including the Plous Memorial Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor in 1974, Professor of the Year by the Mortar Board Honors Society in 1986, Outstanding Faculty Award given by UCSB Office of Residential Life in 1995, and the Getman Service to Students Award in 2008. He had also served as Assistant Dean and Acting Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters and Science at UCSB. In 2000 he was named Dean of Undergraduate Studies, a role he had until his retirement in June 2008.

Wyner also played a large role in establishing the Freshman Summer Start Program. Wyner is survived by his wife, Louise, his sons, Rick and David, his stepson, Seth and stepdaughter, Zoe.

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· UC-wide library access & ProQuest Digital Library · 15% discount UC Extension programs · AAA & GEICO car insurance discount · Alumni Locator Service · Career Services (advising appointments, access to job listings, and career fairs) · 20% discount select Arts & Lectures events · 15% off Woodstock’s pizza

· We keep alumni connected to UCSB through monthly @UCSB e-newsletters, regional emails, and our official alumni magazine Coastlines · We bring together alumni at regional California and U.S. networking and social events, as well as on-campus for the All Gaucho Reunion · We celebrate alumni achievements through Alumni Spotlights and the Annual Alumni Awards Luncheon · We engage alumni and students through Alumni Career Panels, Incoming Student Receptions, and Career Connections (launching soon!) · We support future alumni by providing student scholarships (nearly 200 awarded since 2002) and emergency student loans

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