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    CAMPUS NOTES

    Regent's Lecturer Candidates Wanted
    Three or four distinguished people will be selected as the campus's Regent's Lecturers in 2002-03, but candidates are needed now, announced Roman Baratiak, who runs the program for Arts & Lectures. July 8 at 3 p.m. is the deadline for nominations. An application form and other details are available on-line. Baratiak can be reached at x2078.

    Optimists Form Campus Club
    Thirteen employees have formed the UCSB Optimist Club of Santa Barbara, making it the third university club ever established in the 86-year history of Optimist International, said Shari Profant, club president. The club, which is sponsored by the Northside Optimist Club Santa Barbara, will receive its charter at a banquet to be held on July 15. Optimist clubs perform a wide variety of activities to benefit local youth and community. Besides Profant, other officers are Barbara Bartolome, secretary; and Victor Bartolome, treasurer. All are welcome to their meetings on the second and fourth Mondays in the MultiCultural Center. For details, contact Profant at profant@lifesci.ucsb.edu.

    HONORS & AWARDS

    Hugo A. Loaiciga, professor of geography, has received a 2002 Service to the Profession Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute for his "longstanding contributions to research and technical activities" of the two groups.



    Tonia Shimin, professor of dance, has received $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to enable completion of a documentary on choreographer Mary Anthony.




    PUBLICATIONS

    Jeffrey Danhauer, professor of audiology, coauthored a textbook titled "Handbook of Outcomes Measurement in Audiology" (Singular Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2002) with Auburn University's Carole Johnson.




    TRANSITIONS

    Maria Boschee is assistant to the chair of the Computer Science Department. She moved from the Office of Instructional Development where she had worked for 15 years.



    Brandon Mowery, a recent graduate of Penn State University, has been named assistant director of telemarketing for the UCSB Annual Fund. As a student caller at Penn he said he raised $140,000 over two years.



    Brianna Viscarra has joined the Development Office's regional and annual giving team as an administrative assistant. She graduated from UCSB in 2001.