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This month we welcome theClass of 2004 into the ranks of ourdistinguished UCR alumni. Iexpect this class will follow in thegreat traditions of the manyHighlanders who have gone beforethem to become superb citizensand professionals. As I visitvarious parts of the country andmeet our UCR alums I am contin-ually impressed by their fondmemories of their time here andtheir many and varied successes.

In this issue of Fiat Lux wehighlight several innovativeprograms in the Arts andHumanities. The talent, creativityand energy of our faculty andstudents are a continuing source ofpride for all of us.

Let me share some UCRmilestones that have occurredsince the last issue of Fiat Lux.

We sadly bid farewell to bothPatricia O’Brien, Dean of theCollege of Arts, Humanities andSocial Sciences who joins theUCLA College as executive dean,and Satish Tripathi, Dean of theBourns College of Engineering,who joins the University of Buffaloas provost. Both are outstandingindividuals who advanced UCR’sreputation during their time withus. We wish them the very best intheir new posts.

We look forward to welcomingEllen Wartella who joins UCR onJuly 1 as executive vice chancellorand provost. Since 1993 Dr.Wartella has served as Dean of theCollege of Communication at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, thelargest and most comprehensivecommunication college in thecountry. Under her leadership, theCollege has become one of themost sought after UT collegesamong prospective students; theCollege’s endowment has more

than doubled; andCollege faculty,departments andprograms haveachieved nationalrecognition forexcellence.

The campus owesan enormous debtto Bill Jury for stepping into therole of interim executive vicechancellor and provost over thepast year. Dr. Jury, a soil physicistand member of the National

Academy ofSciences, servedthe campus andcommunitywith greatdistinction,taking on manydifficult tasksthat requiredastute and deftleadership. Heprovided steady

guidance through recruitmentsand retentions, enrollmentmanagement, faculty promotions,and the many challenges of amuch-diminished budgetallocation from the State. Perhapseven more important, his exampleof selfless leadership has served tostimulate faculty from the entirecampus to volunteer their time toserve in leadership roles, both inthe academic senate and in theadministration. The campus, infact, appears renewed with energyand commitment and I give muchof the credit for this to the colle-giality and integrity exemplified byBill Jury in his administrative role.”

Members of the UC Board ofRegents visited the campus in lateApril. They were treated to astudent dance performance atUCR’s renowned CaliforniaMuseum of Photography andheard faculty presentations on keyscience and engineering initiatives.

After their visit, many Regentssingled out their meetings withstudents as particularly rewardingand praised them for attendingbreakfast with the Regents at 7a.m!

We dedicated the Amy S.Harrison Softball field, which wasmade possible by a generousdonation from our noted alumnaand foundation chair; we madesignificant progress in theconstruction of the UCR PalmDesert campus; and adminis-trators, alumni, and volunteersvisited Sacramento on UC Day inMay. The latter was an opportunityfor our talented students to showoff their research and its societalbenefits, and for our alumni to talkto legislators about the importanceof access, affordability, and qualityin UC. Graduate studentsorganized their second annualresearch awards event at which thewinners spoke about their innov-ative research.

Our faculty and staff memberscontinue to receive numerousawards and recognition for theirachievements and cutting edgeresearch. The Awards and Honorssection in this issue features someof their achievements.

If you see me on campus oraround town, please say “hello.

France A. CórdovaChancellor

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EditorKathleen Peach

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Events during the Spring Quarter included thededication of the Amy S. Harrison Softball field; theHip Hop Theatre Festival, organized by ProfessorRickerby Hinds; the Citrus Variety Collection booth atRiverside's Orange Blossom Festival, as well as anEntomology Department booth at the same event;and the Art Walk downtown, that involved the GluckModern Dance Ensemble

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Pamela S.Clute, theexecutive directorof the ALPHACenter, acceptedthe NationalScience

Foundation Presidential Awardfor Excellence in Science,Mathematics and EngineeringMentoring for the CONNECTprogram. President George W.Bush presented the award at aMay 6, White Houseceremony.

Chancellor France A.Córdova, who nominatedClute and the CONNECTprogram for the award, said“This is tremendous recog-nition for Pam and for theinnovative and visionaryapproach to math educationemployed by the ALPHACenter. It is a prime exampleof the excellence UCR achievesin its mission of research,teaching and public service.”

There are approximately 20award recipients each year –up to 10 individuals and 10institutions. The institutionalaward is given to organizationsthat have enabled a substantialnumber of students fromgroups underrepresented inscience, mathematics andengineering to complete therelevant degree programs.Both the institutional andindividual awards include a$10,000 grant to go with thePresidential commendation.The money is to be directedback into the program.

CONNECT is a mentoringnetwork that providesacademic, financial andmentoring support in mathe-matics education to underrep-resented groups, particularlywomen, who are students orclassroom teachers.

CONNECT annually affects 45teaching credential candidates,80 to 90 credentialed teachers,10 college faculty membersand 2,700 students in grades 6through 12 in classroom workand after-school programs.

Anthony Ginter, professoremeritus of music, has beenawarded the 2003-2004Emeritus Faculty Award.

Ginter joined UC Riversidein 1977 as an assistantprofessor and the conductor ofthe University’s symphonyorchestra. He holds an ArtistDiploma in violin from theToronto Royal Conservatory ofMusic, a bachelor’s degreefrom the University ofToronto, a Master’s degreefrom Indiana University, and aPh.D. in music history fromOhio State University.

In the twenty years that heconducted the UCR orchestra,Ginter programmed manycompositions by Americancomposers, including works byUCR music faculty andstudents. Since his retirement,he continues to perform asfirst violinist in the SanBernardino and RedlandsBowl Festival Orchestras.

Ginter’s scholarly interestsfocus on Czech music andmusicians, and 18th centuryFrench violin music. In 2002,A-R Editions published histhird edition of violin sonatascomposed by the Frenchviolinist-composer PierreGaviniés.

Ioana Sherman, a graduatestudent in UC Riverside’sDepartment of Music, will goto Romania on a FulbrightFellowship for the 2004-05academic year.

She will be studying at theArchives at the NationalUniversity of Music in

Bucharest and doing fieldworkthat will include interviewsand attending festivals.

“She is the first graduatestudent in the department toreceive such a distinguishedaward,” said Deborah Wong,an ethnomusicologist. “Whilein Romania she will look atfolk music beforecommunism, particularly thesongs that have to do withrituals, festivals, and rites ofpassage, and examine how folkmusic after 1989 has beenaffected and changed bycommunist repression,popular resistance, andwestern cultural imperialism.”

The Fulbright Program wasestablished in 1946 to increasemutual understandingbetween the peoples of theUnited States and othercountries through theexchange of persons,knowledge and skills. It wasnamed for Senator J. WilliamFulbright, a Democrat fromArkansas with a distinguishedcareer in the Senate from 1944until 1974.Sponsored by the UnitedStates Department of State,Fulbright provides funds forstudents, scholars, and profes-sionals to undertake graduatestudy, advanced research,university teaching, andteaching in elementary andsecondary schools around theworld. Nearly 800 people areselected each year to travel toone of more than 140 differentcountries.

The Non-Senate AcademicAwards for 2002-2003 wereawarded to three people forextraordinary services to thecampus.

Carmen Ballester,Department ofHispanic Studies, wonthe Distinguished

Teaching Award.Ole Becker,Department ofNematology,earned theDistinguishedResearch Award.

Kevin Simpson,Department ofChemistry, earned anew award calledResearch-InstructionCollaboration.

Dallas Rabenstein,Distinguished Professor ofChemistry, has been appointedUC Riverside’s Graduate Dean.

The Dean of the GraduateDivision is the main advocatefor the graduate program andgraduate students at UCR.Rabenstein will lead UCR’sefforts to increase the size andquality of its graduate studentpopulation and, along withsubcommittees of the TaskForce on Graduate StudentFunding and Recruitment, willdevelop a comprehensive planfor increasing financialsupport for graduate students.

Rabenstein, elected a fellowof the American Associationfor the Advancement ofScience in 1995, joined theUCR faculty in 1985 from theUniversity of Alberta, Canada,where he had been a facultymember since 1969.

Susan Kean, a gift-planningofficer for UC Riverside, wasone of six local women to behonored by the University ofRedlands Town and Gown,celebrating the 20th

anniversary of the university’s“A Woman’s Place is EveryPlace,” to recognize the diverseaccomplishments and contri-butions by Inland Empirewomen.

Kean works with a team atUC Riverside to raise morethan $2 million in planned

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gifts annually. She is alsoprogram vice president for theAmerican Association ofUniversity Women, RedlandsBranch and secretary ofRotary International District5530.

Patricia O’Brien,former dean of theCollege ofHumanities, Artsand Social Sciences,is now ExecutiveDean of the UCLACollege.

Dean O’Brien led theCollege of Humanities, Arts,and Social Sciences for nearlyfive years. She collaboratedclosely with other UCR deans,which enabled the devel-opment of new inter-disci-plinary programs such as thedigital media initiative and theCenter for SustainableSuburban Development.

She also enhanced existingdistinguished programs,including the Center for Ideasand Society and the GluckFellows program. Under herleadership new initiatives inher college, like the Center forCalifornia Native Nations anda program in Southeast AsianStudies, were developed.

Joel Martin,Chair of UCR’sDepartment ofReligious Studies,has been selected toserve as interimDean of UCRiverside’s College

of Humanities, Arts, andSocial Sciences.

Dr. Martin holds appoint-ments in both the ReligiousStudies and History depart-ments. He also holds the firstpermanent CostoProfessorship in AmericanIndian Affairs. In this position

he has fostered connectionsbetween UCR and NativeAmerican nations. Dr. Martinalso serves as director-designate of the Center forCalifornia Native Nations.

Dr. Ellen Wartella has beenappointed as the newExecutive Vice Chancellor andProvost. Beginning July 1, 2004Dr. Wartella will serve asActing Chancellor in theChancellor’s absence; willwork closely with theChancellor in the formulationof the campus vision andimplementation of academicand administrative policies;and will work closely with theDeans in recruitment andretention of faculty. She willhave responsibility formanaging the daily operationsof the campus and will be theprincipal liaison to theAcademic Senate.

Since 1993 Dr. Wartella hasserved as Dean of the Collegeof Communication at TheUniversity of Texas, the largestand most comprehensivecommunication college in thecountry.

Cindy Giorgio,formerly assistantdean in the Collegeof Natural andAgriculturalSciences (CNAS),has been appointedassistant chancellor.

Giorgio will serve as aliaison for Chancellor Córdovawith the campus communityand the public, will providesupport on a broad range ofcomplex subjects, and willassist the Chancellor by devel-oping communications andproviding follow-up onexecutive decisions. Shefollows Robert Gill, who isretiring in June as the

executive assistant to thechancellor.

Cheryl Hayashi, assistantprofessor of biology, JohnKlotz, an urban entomologist,and Kirk Visscher, associateprofessor of entomology andassociate entomologist, werefeatured on “Modern Marvels:Nature’s Engineers” on theHistory Channel in March2004.

The show is a global tour ofthe natural world’s greatestbuilders, including beavers,termites, bees, birds, spidersand ants.

Hayashi studies spider silk.Klotz’s research concentrateson the behavior and control ofArgentine and carpenter ants.Visscher studies the socialbehavior and ecology of socialinsects, the role andmanagement of bees inagriculture, and the evolutionof social behavior.

Carlos Cortés,professor emeritusof history, has beenelected as a Fellowof the InternationalAcademy forInterculturalResearch.

The Academy is an interna-tional organization whichprovides a forum where seniorintercultural researchers,academics, and practitionerscan exchange ideas, theories,research and successfulapproaches to practice. Inthis way, the Academy fostershigh-level interdisciplinaryresearch and scholarship onintercultural issues.

Cortés has lectured andconsulted widely throughoutthe United States, LatinAmerica, Europe, Asia, andAustralia on the implicationsof diversity for education,government, private business,

and the mass media. Since1990 he has served on thesummer faculty of theHarvard Institutes for HigherEducation and since 1995 onthe faculty of the SummerInstitute for InterculturalCommunication.

Chandra Varma,a distinguishedprofessor of physics,has been awardedthe Humboldt Prizefor his contribu-tions to theoreticalcondensed matterphysics in the fields of heavy-fermions, superconductivityand many body phenomena.

The Alexander vonHumboldt Prize is Germany’shighest research award forsenior U.S. scientists andscholars in all disciplines. TheHumboldt Prize was re-estab-lished by the Federal Republicof Germany in 1953 as anexpression of gratitude to theUnited States for its post-World War II aid under theMarshall Plan. No more than40 of the prizes are awardedannually. The prize grants therecipient twelve months ofresearch support in a period offive years at any Germanuniversity or Max PlanckInstitute. Among past winnersof this prestigious prize are 31Nobel Laureates.

The CaliforniaAir Resources Boardrecognized RogerAtkinson, directorof the Air PollutionResearch Center anda distinguishedprofessor in theDepartment of EnvironmentalSciences, for the impact of his30 years of work on theformation of photochemicalair pollution.

Atkinson is one of three

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recipients of the 2004 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Awards, whichis presented to one scientificresearcher, one policy makerand one health researcher.Atkinson’s co-recipientsinclude Leon Billings andDavid Gates, M.D.

Atkinson has donepioneering researchconcerning the atmosphericreactions of organic chemicals.His work has shed light on thechemistry responsible for theformation of ozone and otherair pollutants. His researchand service on review panelsare reflected in his more than300 publications.

R. Ervin Taylor,professor of anthropology,received the prestigious2004 Fryxell Award forInterdisciplinary Researchof the Society forAmerican Archaeology.

The award was given inrecognition of the outstandingcontributions in the devel-opment and application ofradiocarbon dating in archae-ological research. Asymposium in his honorentitled “A Time for Science”included papers presented byformer students, colleagues,and collaborators.

The Society for AmericanArchaeology is an interna-tional organization dedicatedto the research, interpretation,and protection of the archaeo-logical heritage of theAmericas.

James Lents, director of theBlakely Center for SustainableSuburban Development, wasselected by The U.S.Environmental ProtectionAgency to receive the ThomasW. Zosel OutstandingIndividual AchievementAward, in recognition of his

leadership in the field of airquality management.

Lents has 27 years ofexperience directing air qualityimprovement and researchprograms nationwide. He iswidely acknowledged as aleader in national and interna-tional air quality arenas, andhas been responsible fornumerous technical and policybreakthroughs in the airquality field.

He was the only individualaward winner at the EPA’sfourth annual Clean AirExcellence Awards ceremonyin Washington, D.C.

The UC Riverside Librariesreceived a collection of fivebooks documenting thehistory of the fabled TuskegeeAirmen from the InlandEmpire Chapter of theTuskegee Airmen and theSCMEB Foundation. Presentedto the Libraries by Col. RalphSmith, President of the InlandEmpire Chapter and CEO ofthe Foundation, the collectioncovers the struggles, victories,and accomplishments ofAfrican-Americans whoearned their wings as pioneercombat pilots during WorldWar II.

Arturo Gomez-Pompa, UniversityProfessor anddistinguishedprofessor of botany,was recentlyappointed to membership ofthe Board on Agriculture andNatural Resources (BANR) ofthe National Academies ofScience. The appointment isfor three years.

The appointment reinforcesthe recognition Gomez-Pompahas received for his work inethnoecology and biodiversityconservation, as well as hismanagement work in tropical

Mexico.Gomez-Pompa also

received an honorary degree –Doctor Honoris Causa – fromthe Universidad AutonomaDel Estado de Morelos,Mexico. The degree honorsGomez-Pompa for his contri-butions to tropicalecology and conser-vation.

AnthonyNorman, professorof biochemistry andbiomedical sciences,is now a Fellow of theAmerican Society forNutritional Sciences (ASNS).

Norman accepted the honorat a banquet of the ASNS inWashington D.C. on April 18.Norman has been a memberof the ASNS since 1970, andhas received two previousawards from the organizationfor his Vitamin D research.

Norman has served as oneof three principal organizers ofthe Vitamin D Workshop, heldevery three years for morethan 30 years. The workshopsare held alternately in NorthAmerica and Europe, andbring together the brightestnames in Vitamin D research.

The ASNS is the premierresearch society dedicated toimproving the quality of lifethrough the science ofnutrition.

Satish K. Tripathi, dean ofthe Bourns College ofEngineering, has accepted thepost of Provost of the StateUniversity of New York,Buffalo. The appointment iseffective July 1.

Tripathi, theJohnson Professorof Engineering anda DistinguishedProfessor ofComputer Science

and Engineering, has led UCRiverside’s Bourns College ofEngineering since 1997.

This high-level adminis-trative appointment at NewYork State’s largest publicuniversity acknowledges DeanTripathi’s leadership in highereducation and his considerableachievements at UC Riverside.

H. Lee Swanson, adistinguished professorof education, receivedthe Special EducationDistinguishedResearcher for 2004award, recognizing his 20-years of research on memoryand learning disabilities.

Swanson’s research looks atthe root causes of suchlearning disabilities as dyslexiaand attention deficit/hyperac-tivity disorder and the role ofmemory in learning andlearning disorders.

The American EducationalResearch Association is a20,000-member internationalprofessional organization thatfocuses primarily onadvancing educationalresearch through practicalapplication. It includes disci-plines such as education,psychology, statistics, sociologyand economics.

Georgia C. Warnke,professor of philosophy, hasbeen appointed by theNational Humanities Center asone of 40 Fellows for theacademic year 2004-2005.

Representing history, liter-ature, philosophy, and half adozen other humanistic fieldsof study, these scholars willcome to the Center from thefaculties of colleges anduniversities across the UnitedStates and also from Israel,Norway, and Poland. They willwork individually on research

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projects in the humanities, andwill exchange ideas inseminars, lectures, and confer-ences.

The project Warnke willpursue during that time iscalled, “After Sex: AHermeneutics of Race andGender, Color and Sex.”

Pingyun Feng,assistantprofessor ofinorganicchemistry andmaterialschemistry, hasbeen awarded a CamilleDreyfus Teacher-ScholarAward, which provides a$60,000 unrestricted grantintended to advance theteaching and researchprograms of the recipient.

The Foundation seeksCamille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars who demonstrateleadership in research andteaching. Nominations arereviewed by distinguishedfaculty in the chemicalsciences and must providecompelling evidence of thenominee’s continuingcommitment to advancingknowledge in the chemicalsciences.

This award is Feng’s thirdmajor academic honor in thespace of about a year. She is acurrent Sloan Research Fellowand she also won the BeckmanYoung Investigator Award lastyear, an award that comes with$240,000 over three years.

She received her Ph.D. in1998 from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara,where she remained as apostdoctoral fellow in 1998-2000. Her research involves thedevelopment of syntheticmethodologies.

She plans to use the grant tosupport graduate students

who will be researching thesynthesis and characterizationof porous materials, solidelectrolytes and nanoclusters.

Uta Barth, a studio artprofessor, received a 2004Guggenheim Fellowship forher photographs. She is among185 artists, scholars and scien-tists selected this year fromnearly 2,800 applicants in theU.S. and Canada.

Her fellowship will allowher to work on her photog-raphy in New York and LosAngeles during the 2005-06school year.

The Guggenheimfoundation awards cashfellowships – almost $7million just this year - fordistinguished individualachievement and exceptionalpromise, according to EdwardHirsch, president of the NewYork-based GuggenheimFoundation.

Former United StatesSenator and Mrs. SimonGuggenheim endowed TheGuggenheim Foundation in1925 to memorialize their son,John, who died three yearsearlier. Guggenheim Fellowsare appointed on the basis ofdistinguished achievement inthe past and exceptionalpromise for future accom-plishment. Some of the mostfamous Guggenheim Fellowsare Ansel Adams, AaronCopland, Langston Hughes,Henry Kissinger, VladimirNabokov and Linus Pauling.

Prof. Barth was born inBerlin, Germany and now livesin Los Angeles. Her work hasbeen exhibited internationallyat venues including theWhitney Museum of AmericanArt; the Guggenheim Museum,New York; the Museum ofModern Art, New York; theMuseum of Contemporary

Art, Los Angeles; the LosAngeles County Museum ofArt; and others.

UC Riverside head coachJack Smitheran is one of threeassistant coaches on the 2004USA Baseball National Teamthat will represent the UnitedStates at the II FISU WorldUniversity BaseballChampionships in Taipei,Taiwan, July 22-Aug. 1.

Smitheran was selected forhis unique background as wellas his involvement with collegebaseball at its highest level. Heis a member of the AmericanBaseball Coaches AssociationHall of Fame.

Team USA will travel toJapan for their annual five-game series against theJapanese Collegiate All-Stars -the 33rd annual meeting of thetwo countries - and thenreturn to the United States toplay approximately 10 moredomestic games beforetraveling to the FISU WorldUniversity Championships.

Chancellor France Córdovaand the UC Riverside StaffAssembly honored elevenemployees for excellence.Aaron Bushong, an academicadvisor in the Bourns Collegeof Engineering and StanMorrison, campus athleticdirector, were chosen for thetop honor of “OutstandingStaff” for 2003-04.

Bushong has worked oncampus for nearly six years,and currently serves as leadacademic advisor and directorof outreach for the Marlan andRosemary Bourns College ofEngineering. He was instru-mental in developing thehighly successful College ofEngineering AmbassadorProgram, which provides apool of outstanding College ofEngineering students who

assist with a variety of Collegeand campus-wide events.

Morrison is Director ofIntercollegiate Athletics andhas proudly led the UCRHighlanders in their transitionto NCAA Division I. Under hisguidance, UCR’s athleticsteams have proven competitivein Division I play, andHighlander student-athletesalso are succeeding in theclassroom with higher GPAsthan the general UCR studentpopulation.

Nine other staff memberswho were recognized includeKatherine Bailey, academicadvisor for the undergraduateBusiness Administration majorfor AGSM; Micki Clowney,Regional Coordinator forUCR’s Early AcademicOutreach Program; PhyllisGill, Student Affairs Assistantfor the Departments of Artand Art History; SherryGonzalez, Academic PersonnelAssistant for the newly formedAEEI, Administrative Unit thatprovides administrativesupport for EnvironmentalSciences, the Air PollutionResearch Center, EarthSciences, and the Institute forGeophysics and PlanetaryPhysics; Yvonne Howard,Management Services Officerfor the Department of CreativeWriting; Dallas Johnson,Service Enterprises Director atUCR supervising the opera-tions of Printing &Reprographics, Fleet Services,and Mail Services; CarolynParker-Carter, AdministrativeAssistant in Physical Plant; BillSchmechel, Director of theOffice of Research Compliancein the Office of ResearchAffairs; Cynthia Smith,Administrative Analyst in theCollege of Humanities, Arts,and Social Sciences Dean’sOffice.

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Jean Mackenzie Fallows,who in the 1960s worked as acourse coordinator inantiques, died Feb. 16, 2004.Fallows, 76 earned herbachelor’s degree in liberalarts from Tufts University in1948.

University of RedlandsTown and Gown recentlyhonored Fallows for herextensive volunteer work inthe community, whichincluded serving as a boardmember of the AssistanceLeague of Redlands for manyyears. She was also involvedin raising money for theLeague’s building on ColtonAvenue, helped in theLeague’s Dental Clinic andserved as chair of theAssisteens.

Fallows is survived by herhusband James; daughtersSusan Fallows Tierney, andKatharine Fallows Neider;sons James Fallows, andThomas Stuart Fallows; andten grandchildren.

Memorial donations maybe made to AudiovisionRadio Reading Service for theBlind, 35242 Yucaipa Blvd.,Yucaipa, CA 92399.

Longtime UC Riversidestaff member, Linda JoyTerry, died Feb. 17, 2003 ather Riverside home after along and courageous battlewith cancer.

Terry, 53, began her careerat UCR in 1975 as a secretaryin the Library. Over the years,she held positions ofincreasing responsibility inthe Office of the ViceChancellor, Administrationand most recently in theDepartment of Math, whereshe was the ManagementServices Officer.

She was a member of theUnited Scottish Society, ClanBuchanan Society, UniversityClub at UCR, and AmericanRose Society.

Terry is survived by herhusband, Mike Terry; a son,Clark Hapeman; her parents,Johan and Joyce Warren; andtwo brothers, David andTerence Warren.

Her family requestsdonations be made to theAmerican Cancer Society andthe University of California,Riverside Pipe BandScholarship Fund (care of theUCR Foundation).

Donations to the AmericanCancer Society may be sentto

American Cancer Society,ATTN: Web, P.O. Box 102454,Atlanta, GA 30368-2454

For more information onthe UCR Pipe BandScholarship Fund pleasecontact the Office of GiftPlanning at (909) 787-6449.

UC Riverside foundingfaculty member, Edwin J“Ted” Simon, died Feb. 11,2004.

Simon, 94, was a memberof the music faculty for 17years before his retirement in1971, and for a short time heconducted the university’ssymphony.

Simon received abachelor’s degree in Englishin 1929, a master’s in musicfrom Mills College inOakland in 1949 and adoctorate in music from UCBerkeley in 1954. DuringWorld War II he was anequipment officer in the U.SArmy Air Forces in England.

He is survived by his wife,Hazel; three sons, David,Charles, and Allen; and three

grandchildren.Memorial Contributions

may be sent to InlandEmpire/ Riverside CountyPhilharmonic, PO Box 1601,Riverside, CA 92502.

Former UC RiversideProfessor Bates Lowry diedof pneumonia on March 12,2004 in a Brooklyn hospital.

Lowry, 80, was chairmanof the art department atBrown University and heldteaching posts at UCRiverside, the Institute ofFine Arts at New YorkUniversity, Pomona College,University of Chicago, theUniversity of Massachusettsand the University ofDelaware.

In 1980 he was thefounding director of theNational Museum inWashington, where he stayedfor seven years.

Lowry received abachelor’s degree from theUniversity of Chicago andwent on to serve in theUnited States Army from1942 to 1945. He laterreceived an M.A. and a Ph.D.from Chicago as well.

Dr. Lowry is survived byhis two daughters, AnneKlonsky and Patricia BarrettLowry; four grandchildren;and a great-granddaughter.

James Blair Bailey, formerUC Riverside entomologist,died April 11, 2004, at hishome in Dana Point.

During his 46-year careeras an entomologist and plantpathologist, he authored over177 scientific articles onpesticides and integrated pestmanagement for agriculturalcrops. He traveled extensively,training and educating

growers on crop production.He is survived by

daughters Diane BaileyRichards, Susan Bailey; sisterJoann Kenaga; two stepsons,Dr. David Hyllegard, and Dr.Randy Hyllegard; and fourgrandchildren.

Donations may be made inhis name to the NationalMuseum of Aviation, 1750Radford Rd., Pensacola, FL32508.

Glen Everett, a UCRiverside physics professorwho helped launch theBourns College ofEngineering, died May 5,2004.

Everett, 69, spent morethan three decades at UCR,including time as the firstacting dean of the College ofEngineering. He was alongtime proponent of anengineering school at UCR.

Everett came to UCR in1961 as an acting assistantprofessor in the physicsdepartment and made fullprofessor by the early 1970s.He later became chairman ofthe department.

Born in St. George, Utah,Everett earned his bachelor’sdegree in physics from theUniversity of Utah and hisdoctorate in the same subjectfrom the University ofChicago.

Everett is survived by hiswife, Merial, and two sons,Jeffrey and John.

Latin American Studies:An AnnotatedBibliography of CoreWorksby Ana Maria Cobos ’76 B.A.and Ana Lya SaterMcFarland2002: 183 pages

This annotated bibliog-raphy contains 1,400 recom-mended books publishedfrom 1986 through 2000 inthe field of Latin Americanstudies. Designed as anacquisitions tool for collegesand libraries, it is dividedinto chapters that deal withreference works, descriptiveaccounts and travel guides,the humanities, language andliterature, the social sciences,and science and technology.

For the purposes of thisbook, Latin America isdefined as all geographiclocations south of the RioGrande. While these arechiefly Spanish andPortuguese speaking regions,works about French, English,and Dutch speaking areas arealso included. The literaryworks of authors living

abroad are included if theyare considered “quintessen-tially Latin American.”Periodicals, children’s liter-ature, audio-visual resources,and works about theHispanic and Latinoexperience in the UnitedStates are not included.

The majority of the workspresented here were selectedbased on reviews fromBooklist, Choice, HispanicAmerican Historical Review,Library Journal, Los AngelesTimes Book Review, New YorkReview of Books, New YorkTimes Book Review andPublisher’s Weekly; alsoconsulted were the catalogs ofmajor university presses thatfocus on Latin Americanstudies.

Ana María Cobos (’76), iscurrently a librarian atSaddleback College and hasexperience in developing theLatin American collection atthe undergraduate library atStanford University. Moreinformation about the bookis available at the publisher’sWeb site athttp://www.mcfarlandpub.com/

Every Night Is Ladies’Nightby Michael Jaime-BecerraRAYOFebruary 2004: 304 pages

This debut collection ofinterrelated stories presents aportrait of a communitywhose members seek theirown place beyond theirimmediate, physical world.The cast of recurringcharacters Jaime-Becerra has

created rings true: peoplewhose hands show signs ofhard work, who areoptimistic enough to want todance even if their feet aretired, and who go to bed atnight and know just howlong they are allowed to sleepbefore the obligations of their

next day begin.Jaime-Becerra shines a

warm light on mechanics andmusicians, on drivers of icecream trucks and big rigs, onkids busy marking themselveswith tattoos; he allowsreaders a unique vantage asthe characters fall in love,make ends meet, and try tooutlast their pasts. To help hischaracters negotiate theobstacles life places beforethem, Jaime-Becerra drawsupon an attentiveness forrich, tender detail temperedby a masterful subtlety.

Jaime-Becerra is aprofessor of creative writingand is working on a bookabout rural musicians inMexico. More informationabout the book is available at

Rayo’s Web site which can beaccessed through http://www.harpercollins.com

John Edward Bruce:Politician, Journalist, andSelf-Trained Historian ofthe African Diaspora by Ralph L. CrowderNew York University PressFebruary 2004: 256 pages

Ralph Crowder, associateprofessor of ethnic studies,studies late nineteenth andtwentieth century AfricanAmerican history, Pan-African history, AfricanAmerica and theInternational Community,Native American slavery andthe Black Indian Experience,intellectual, and culturalhistory.

His latest book is aboutJohn Edward Bruce, apremier black journalist fromthe late 1800’s until his deathin 1924. Bruce was a vitalforce in the popularization ofAfrican American history.“Bruce Grit,” as he was called,wrote for such publicationsas Marcus Garvey’s nation-alist newspaper, The NegroWorld, and McGirt’sMagazine.

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Born a slave in Marylandin 1856, Bruce gained hisfreedom by joining aregiment of Union soldierspassing through on their wayto Washington, DC. Brucewas in contact with majorfigures in African Americanhistory, including HenryHighland Garnett and MartinDelany, both instrumental inthe development of 19thcentury Black Nationalismand the struggle for Blackliberation. Close relationshipswith Liberian statesmanEdward Wilmot Blyden andwith Alexander Crummell, akey advocate for theemigration of Blacks toAfrica, assisted in Bruce’sdevelopment into a leadingAfrican Americanspokesman.

In 1911, Arthur AlfonsoSchomburg and Bruce co-founded the Negro Societyfor Historical Research,which greatly influencedblack book collecting andpreservation as well as thestudy of African Americanthemes. More informationabout the book is available atthe publisher’s Web site:www.nyupress.org

Human Rights: TheScholar as ActivistEdited by Carol Nagengastand Carlos Vélez-IbáñezThe Society for AppliedAnthropologyApril 2004

Human Rights: TheScholar as Activist iscomposed of original workwritten by anthropologists

and human rights researchersusing multiple disciplinaryapproaches in anthropologyto better understand humanrights issues. The bookmerges human rightsactivism with academicmethodology.

Former President JimmyCarter, a noted human-rightsactivist, has supported theinnovative design andcontent of the work with anendorsement on the cover:

“This volume will help to

synchronize academic schol-arship and human rightsactivism, inspiring profes-sionals to adopt multi-disci-plinary approaches to humanrights issues. We at TheCarter Center have beencommitted to blending schol-arship and action for morethan 20 years. Texts likeHuman Rights: The Scholar asActivist offer indispensableanalysis that will guidehuman rights scholars andadvocates for years to come.”

The two editors hope thebook will lend more

academic credence tohuman-rights studies, andinspire other academicresearchers to investigatehuman rights issues. Thesubjects stretch from human-rights studies in Bosnia, tostudies of the indigenouspeople of Brazil.

Vélez-Ibáñez directs UCRiverside’s Ernesto GalarzaApplied Research Center. Heis the author of numerousresearch articles and fivebooks, including BorderVisions: The Cultures ofMexicans of the SouthwestUnited States and Rituals ofMarginality: Politics, Processand Culture Change inCentral Urban Mexico.

Encyclopedia of InsectsEdited by Vincent H. Resh andRing T. Cardé Academic PressFebruary 21, 2003; 1,266pages

The Encyclopedia of Insectsis a comprehensive workdevoted to all aspects ofinsects, including theiranatomy, physiology,evolution, behavior, repro-duction, ecology, and disease,as well as issues ofexploitation, conservation,and management. Articlesprovide definitive facts aboutall insects from aphids,beetles and butterflies toweevils and yellowjackets.

This volume, co-edited byRing Cardé, distinguishedprofessor of Entomology,includes detailed descriptionsof the ways in which insectsinteract with their

environment ecology,agriculture, public health,human folklore and culture,and even the cinematic viewof insect behavior.

“To demonstrate howinfluential UC Riverside is inthe field, of the 250 contrib-utors in the book, 17 areaffiliated with this campus,”Cardé said.

The book has receivedmany awards, among themthe Single Volume ReferenceAward for the 2003Professional/ScholarlyPublishing Division AnnualAwards Competition run bythe American Association ofPublishers.

Cardé holds the A.M.Boyce Chair in Entomologyand is the currentdepartment chair. Moreinformation may be foundon the publisher’s Web site at:http://www.apnet.com

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Barbara’s Leprechaunby Mary Curtin ’70, ’72 M.A.Center for Health CareInitiatives2003, 188 pages

Barbara’s Leprechaun: TheHealing Power of Story is abook that combines travelwith personal growth.Steeped in legends ofleprechauns, Barbara yearnsto go to Ireland, and declaresher desire after treatment forcancer. The author, a long-time friend, encourages herto go now. The nonfictionbook explores what happensnext, as Barbara faces herown fears and her family’sresistance.

Barbara is one of overeighteen million people alivetoday with a history ofcancer, according to the 1998American Cancer Societyreport. These survivors needa model of success, somebodywith courage enough to dosomething meaningful anddaring, one who can inspirethem to follow their owndreams.

Mary Curtin is a teacherof composition and literatureat Riverside CommunityCollege. Married, withgrown children, she travelswidely and enjoys reading,telling stories, walking andtheatre. More information isavailable at http://www.barbarasleprechaun.com

Detachment Faultby Susan Cummins Miller ’75Texas Tech University Press2004, 235 pages

Detachment Fault is thesecond book in a mysteryseries that centers aroundfield geologist FrankieMacFarlane. It opens with abound body, discovered inthe Sea of Cortez, and the

twists and turns of the plotmove from Mexico toviolence on a communitycollege campus.

Frankie joins the hunt forthe killers, bringing hergeologist’s eye and analyticalskills to aid two old friends—sheriff ’s detective ToniNavarro and private investi-gator Philo Dane.

As the search unfolds,Frankie ventures into an elitefringe world where the antiq-uities trade slips too easilyinto international money-laundering and far higherstakes. Skidding through somany twists and turns thateven her “scars have scars,”Frankie leads her readers on a

heart-stopping and unforget-table chase.

Susan Cummins Miller(’75) worked as a fieldgeologist with the U.S.Geological Survey and taughtgeology and oceanographybefore becoming a writer offiction, nonfiction, andpoetry. She lives in Tucson,where she is working on thenext Frankie MacFarlanemystery. More informationmay be found on thepublisher’s Web site athttp://www.ttup.ttu.edu

Politically IncorrectNutrition—Finding Realityin the Mire of FoodIndustry Propagandaby Michael Barbee ’71Vital Health Publishing 2004, 165 pages

Using the most recent andobjective scientific andclinical research data,Politically Incorrect Nutritionreveals that much currentnutritional dogma is basedon outdated information orhas been fabricated to satisfy

vested corporate financialinterests rather than topromote human health.Learn about the risks ofartificial sweeteners; the waysoy reacts with hormones; theeffects of microwaving; thelimitations of vitaminsupplements and other factsand fallacies about diet.

Michael Barbee (’71) is aneducator who has taught inprivate and public schools for30 years. He is a CertifiedDiet Counselor through theInstitute for EducationalTherapy (IET) in Cotati,California. In addition to histeaching, Barbee speaks togroups about the relationshipof diet to health and disease.More information may befound on the publisher’s Website at: http://www.vital-health.net/

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by Ricardo Duran

Dedicated faculty members, and somefortunately-timed financial support fromprivate foundations, have produced athriving arts and humanities scene at UCRiverside, despite those headlines aboutCalifornia’s budget crisis.

That support has allowed UCR to buildkey areas and innovative approaches to thearts and humanities; support that helps keepthe campus a vibrant center for performance,connected to its surrounding communityand relevant to the larger community.

“One of the things that has been said byprogram officers from foundations abouthow we seem to be different from other

campuses is that faculty have a very highlevel of consciousness about applying ourresearch in the arts and humanities to thecommunity in general,” said Emory Elliott, adistinguished professor of English anddirector of the Center for Ideas and Society.

He said there is an excitement about thepossibilities here, because the Inland area isgrowing quickly and is ethnically diverse.And there is excitement about the way thatUCR faculty work together across disci-plines to create new programs.

Deborah Wong, an associate professorof music, said she has seen the samereaction. “A couple of members of the LuceFoundation visited and what they saw wasfaculty that was energized and excited

about possibilities here. That energy trans-lates directly into new programs, new ideasand new publications. They are looking forevidence and we came through.”

Success builds on itself. One foundationgrant seeds the ground for the next,helping to build new programs and newattention. Foundations are looking for thebest return on their investment, especiallysince 2002 was an especially bad year forstock market returns.

Despite a slowly recovering nationaleconomy, and a multi-year state financialcrisis, UC Riverside has brought in 27percent of its voluntary giving from privatefoundations, which places the campus atabout the national average. The results can

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Arts and

Humanities

Building UC Riverside into a National Center for the

be seen in expanded arts and humanitiesresearch, arts outreach to the community,and important conferences.

Some of the foundations, and the initia-tives they support, which have played amajor role in advancing arts and human-ities at UC Riverside include:• The National Endowment for theHumanities, National Endowment for theArts and the National Parks Service, for thepreservation and digitization of more than500,000 stereographic images chroniclingAmerican history and societies in theMiddle East, Central and South Asia.• The Henry Luce Foundation, for theadvancement of studies about Southeast Asia.

The Ford Foundation, to study theimpact of cultural diversity on society andthe arts in the United States.• The Rockefeller Foundation, to developa scholar in residency program, whichbrings influential scholars to UC Riversideto research and present information oncultural diversity and the arts.• The Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, tosupport arts performance outreach to theunderserved groups in the community.• The William and Flora HewlettFoundation, to develop a series of firstyear, multidisciplinary courses for under-graduates to improve general education.• And the Andrew W. MellonFoundation, to bring together graduatestudents and faculty in a myriad ofsubjects in the humanities. The interdisci-plinary, cross-cultural discussions wouldbe open to the public.

PreservingImportant Images

The UCR/CaliforniaMuseum of Photographyhas received foundationgrants to preserve,catalog and digitizemuch of its vastcollection of stereo-graphic images of bothevents in the UnitedStates and abroad.

The most recentsupport came in April(2004) with theannouncement of a$135,000 HumanitiesPreservation and AccessGrant from the NEH,one of six in the state ofCalifornia. The fundingsupports the creation ofonline access to 8,500stereographicphotographs of 19th and20th Century life in morethan 80 cities in theMiddle East, Central Asia, India andPakistan.

In 2002, the UCR/CMP received a$500,000 grant from a consortium of theNEH, NEA and the National Parks Service,part of a $15.6 million “Saving America’sTreasures” effort. The grant supportedefforts to preserve and protect the 350,000-item Keystone-Mast collection, from thearchive of the Keystone View Company ofMeadville, Penn., which was in business

from 1892 to 1963.The collectionoffers an encyclo-pedic view ofworld history andcultural diversity.Up to now, accessremained a manualprocess of physi-cally examiningthe company’soriginal file printsand deterioratingledgers.

“The funds willbe used toconstruct a seismi-cally isolated andsecure storagesystem for thisfragile collection,”said JonathanGreen, director ofthe museum.

In 1998, theNational

Endowment for the Humanities,Division of Preservation andAccess, funded the museum’s firstlarge-scale Keystone-Mastcataloging project, known as the“Stereographs of the Americas.”SOA is a detailed illustratedrecord, documenting the sites,events, and cultures of theWestern Hemisphere. The two-year project produced approxi-mately 18,000 digitized imagesand 24,000 searchable records.

“Because we hold one of theworld’s priceless photographiccollections, we are constantlyseeking funds to preserve thecollection and to provide research,scholarly and public access to itsmaterials,” Green added.

The link to the UCR/CMP’sphotographic collections is athttp://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photo/collections.html

The Museum is also part of theCalifornia Digital Library, whichis online at http://www.cdlib.org/

Studying Southeast AsiaThe Henry Luce Foundation, in 2001,

announced a four-year, $400,000 grant toUC Riverside to develop a Southeast AsiaStudies Program.

In its first year, the grant paid the full costof two faculty positions to bolster schol-arship in this area. UC Riverside officialsrecruited Hendrik M.J. Maier in 2003 for itssenior faculty position. Maier, a recognizedleader in the field of Indonesian languageand literature, holds the first Luce SeniorProfessorship at UC Riverside.

Maier held the world’s most prestigiouschair in Southeast Asian Studies at LeidenUniversity in the Netherlands prior to joiningUC Riverside. He has also taught at KyotoUniversity, Cornell University and UCLA.

Junior faculty member Mariam BeeviLam, a scholar of Vietnamese language,Vietnamese literature and film, joined UCRiverside in 2003.

“Our Asia program mission is tostrengthen American capacity to understandand interact with Asia,” said Helena Kolenda,a program officer at the Luce Foundation.“We do this primarily through support forAsian studies, teaching and research atAmerican higher education institutions.”

“The Luce grant was aimed at creating acritical mass of faculty at UC Riverside withspecialties in Southeast Asian studies,” saidDeborah Wong, a professor of music andproponent of the grant.

UC Riverside had set a foundation forthis critical mass by hiring Filipino Studies

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One of the largestsources offoundation grantsupport in theCollege ofHumanities, Artsand SocialSciences, comesfrom the Ford andRockefellerfoundations intheir support ofcultural diversityresearch, teachingand conferencesorganized by UCRiverside’s Centerfor Ideas andSociety.

UCR California Museum of Photography

Student dancerMichelle Sabiniano

Professor Dylan Rodriguezfrom UC Berkeley in 2001 tojoin the Ethnic StudiesDepartment. The campus hadalso formed the SoutheastAsian Performing Arts StudiesCenter in 1997 with faculty inmusic, dance, religiousstudies, and ethnic studies.The center examines the linksperforming arts forge betweenSoutheast Asian homelandsand expatriate communities such as those inCalifornia. The center now works withfaculty from UC campuses in Los Angeles,San Diego and Irvine.

The grant will also help shape new waysof looking at how geographic areas arestudied, such as looking at the causes andfactors behind global migrations like thepost Vietnamese-war migration of SoutheastAsians to California, Wong said.

“Because the study of Southeast Asia isweaker in the U.S. than, for example, thestudy of China, we have a particular interestin fostering the development of the field ofSoutheast Asia studies,” Kolenda added.

Cultural Diversity and AestheticsOne of the largest sources of foundation

grant support in the College of Humanities,Arts and Social Sciences, comes from theFord and Rockefeller foundations in theirsupport of cultural diversity research,teaching and conferences organized by UCRiverside’s Center for Ideas and Society.

The campus has received grants from theFord and Rockefeller foundations totalingmore than $1.2 million primarily forprojects that study the impact of culturaldiversity on society and the arts in the U.S.The growth of the campus, acquiringtalented young faculty and the developmentof the Center for Ideas and Society, helpedattract the foundations’ attentions.

“During the 1990s, we built an extraor-dinary faculty in the humanities, arts andsocial sciences,” said Elliott, director of thecenter. A 1998 conference titled Aestheticsand Difference: Cultural Diversity, Literatureand the Arts drew the attention of theChronicle of Higher Education and brought agood deal of attention to the campus.

Subsequent visits by Ford and RockefellerFoundation representatives with groups offaculty brought favorable results, Elliottadded.

These grants have underwritten an arrayof seminars, performances, visiting scholarsand lectures in such areas as gender andsexuality, diversity and multiculturalism, andperformance and visual culture.

Among the work funded through thegrant are performances, such as the hip hoptheater workshop Sample This and Inventing

Native Modern Dance; lectureseries’ with titles like, The AfricanDiaspora, which examined thetrans-Atlantic Slave trade, andAesthetics, Ideology and Differencein Hispanic Literature, whichbrought prominent scholars inLatin American Literature tocampus to discuss the artisticconnections between theAmericas. The grants have paidfor conferences with titles such as

The Black Aesthetic 1960-2001, Sexualities andKnowledges, and Revitalizing Heritage:California Indians in an Era of Sovereignty.

In 2002, the Center for Ideas and Societyapplied for and received a three-year,$450,000 Ford Foundation grant for aproject proposal titled Cultural Cloning: TheSocial Injustices of Reproducing Sameness,which is more social science oriented and isfunding six research groups in topics such aslabor systems, kinship and family systems,constructing civilization, state systems,educational systems, and aesthetic systems.

“We expect to have as many as four bookscome out of this research,” Elliott said.

Such grants help raise the academicprofile of UC Riverside and help attract notonly excellent new faculty but alsooutstanding graduate and undergraduatestudents, he added. The Center for Ideas andSociety Web site http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/

Bringing Arts to the CommunityWhat do digital dance, a conversation

with Sara Shelton Mann and A.A. Milne’sThe Ugly Duckling havein common?

They’ve all beenbrought to thecommunity thanks tothe ongoing support ofthe Maxwell H. GluckFoundation, which hassupported the GluckFellows Program of theArts at UC Riversidesince 1996, to the tune ofslightly less than $3million.

The privately-fundedarts outreach program isdesigned to create theopportunity for faculty,graduate, and under-graduate students in theDepartments of CreativeWriting, Dance, Historyof Art, Music, Theatreand the Sweeney ArtGallery andUCR/California Museumof Photography to

extend their creativity to local schools,nursing homes, and community centers thathave little access to the arts. UC Riverside isone of only three institutions in the Nationreceiving Gluck support. The others areUCLA and Juilliard.

Some recent performances includedDancing With Technologies in November 2003involving graduate dance fellow IsabelValverde, who introduced people to emergingdance forms that experiment with newtechnologies, sometimes called digitaldancing. The Tens was a dance and musicperformance created by Gluck GraduateDance Fellow Shawn Womack and performedin April 2003, by dancer and UC Riversidealumna Jennifer Twilley as a conversationbetween the elements of movement andsound with Josh Aerie, the assistant principalcellist for the Inland Empire/RiversideCounty Philharmonic Orchestra.

Conversations with the Choreographersbrought several of today’s outstandingchoreographers to UC Riverside for a seriesof informal dialogues about their works andartistic visions. Among those who appearedwere Alonzo King, Eiko and Koma, SaraShelton Mann and Rennie Harris.

The First Sundays Project is part of theUCR/CMP’s offerings of hands-on activitiesfor families and children. Gluck fellowsDarren Eskandari and David Horvitzorganize and run workshops, such as InstantAnimation 2004, which explores the secretsof animation that haven’t changed in over100 years; and Phenawhoozie?—discovering19th Century Toys. Gluck Fellows Web sitehttp://www.gluckprogram.ucr.edu/

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Artwork from the ’04 UCR Senior Exhibition at the Sweeney ArtGallery. Clockwise from top left, Douglas Green, Fairmount ParkExuvium; Liliana Vazquez, Birthdays and Weddings; Kaisha Hwang,Self-Portrait; Margarita Manoukian, Vietnam: The Aftermath. (Seepage 35 for more details)

UC Riverside isone of onlythree institutionsin the Nationreceiving Glucksupport. Theothers are UCLAand Juilliard.

Improving General Education Sometimes what begins as a grant-funded

pilot program develops into a permanentaddition to the campus. In May 1999, UCRiverside received a $150,000 grant from theWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation tooffer a “learning community” to freshmen.

Classes were taught collaboratively byprofessors from different disciplines tochallenge students to look at issues frommultiple perspectives. Theclasses, known as clustercourses, had students lookat issues in depth over thelength of the academic year.The courses also offer asense of community amongthe students, according toAssociate Professor ofHistory Lynda Bell, whohelped write the grantproposal.

The Hewlett Program inGeneral Education, as it wasknown, was the start ofwhat is now CHASSConnect, where first-yearstudents enroll in a year-long sequence, according toBell.

“Dean (Patricia) O’Brientold me last fall that thecurrent CHASS Connect program took a lotof its inspiration from the Hewlettprogram,” she said.

For Associate Professor of English JosephChilders, the Hewlett program proved goodtraining in putting together multidisci-plinary courses.

“The course I put together with EdmondOtis (martial arts instructor) and MaxNeiman (professor of political science), hadto do with the ways we talk about conflict. Itwas a three quarter course,” he said. “In thefirst quarter, we talked about how conflictwas represented in literature, philosophy andthe arts. The next quarter had to do withorganizational conflict, political organiza-tions, nations, and conflict in a macro arena.Third quarter had to do with interpersonalconflicts. We typically carried between 80 to100 students every quarter. It was extraordi-narily successful.”

Today CHASS Connect offers six coursesequences with titles such as Of Cannibals:Myths, Legends and Facts; Origins of Race;Class and Gender; The Reliability of Evidence;The Cultural Iconography of Diversity; andIndividual Visions and Global Perspectives:Explorations in Contemporary Identity Politics.

Livening Up the GraduateStudent Experience

The purpose of the three-year, $166,000Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, is to

bring graduate students into close intel-lectual collaboration with faculty to developand organize a series of workshops in thehumanities.

All workshops involve faculty convenersand a graduate student leader, along withfaculty and graduate student participants ontopics related to multiculturalism, aesthetics,difference, and social justice, according toThomas Scanlon, professor of classics and

chair in the Department ofComparative Literature and ForeignLanguages, who wrote the proposal.

“The key feature is that it fosterscollaboration between faculty andgraduate students on innovativeresearch projects,” he said. “It is alsoa crucial infusion of funds to bringin major speakers from around thecountry to UC Riverside for lecturesopen to the public. In short, itenlivens the intellectual life of thecollege.”

In October 2003, Joyce Appleby, aprofessor emerita at UCLA and aleading intellectual on the nation’srevolutionary founders presented aworkshop on Thomas Paine’sCommon Sense.

Philosophy Graduate Student SamPage said his experiences workingon the first year’s series of talks was

invaluable.“As a graduate student, it gave me

experience organizing and carrying out ayear-long series of talks,something I’ll probablybe doing quite a bitmore of as an academic,”Page said.

Scanlon said theMellon InterdisciplinaryWorkshops in theHumanities offers awindow into the waygraduate studentsshould be trained.

“Ph.D. studentsshould be trained ininterdisciplinaryapproaches to researchand instruction that willserve both their ownwork and enrich theinstitutions in whichthey will become facultymembers,” he said.In its first six months,program participantshave been involved in 31events, such as the Abuseof Ideals workshops inwhich Page wasinvolved.

“The workshops

enriched myeducation byproviding a regularforum in which tointeract with facultyand graduatestudents fromthroughout thehumanities andsocial sciences, andto hear a variety ofpoints of view on aparticular issue,”said Page, whohopes to land atenure-track jobstarting in the Fall2005.

The Future Looks Bright Private foundation support is likely to

grow at UC Riverside, especially sincestronger than expected economic growth hashelped boost foundation assets anywherefrom 9 percent to 11 percent in 2003according to the Foundation Center, formedin 1956 as a clearinghouse funded byfoundations to track philanthropy andprovide accurate information on giving.

And UC Riverside has the growthpotential, the quality faculty, the engagementwith the community and the openness tonew ideas, to remain a favorite of privatefoundations looking to boost the creation ofnew programs in the arts and humanities.

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UC Riverside hasthe growthpotential, thequality faculty,the engagementwith thecommunity andthe openness tonew ideas, toremain a favoriteof privatefoundations

Ph.D. studentsshould betrained in inter-disciplinaryapproaches toresearch andinstruction thatwill serve boththeir own workand enrich theinstitutions inwhich they willbecome facultymembers

Foundation Support for Humanities and the Arts at UCR

Year Foundation Name Amount

1999 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $150,000

1996-Present Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation $2,900,000

2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) $135,000

2002 NEH, National Endowment for the Arts,National Parks Service $500,000

1998-Present The Ford Foundation $878,000

2000-2004 The Rockefeller Foundation $330,000

2001 The Henry Luce Foundation $400,000

2002 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $166,000

Web addressesWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation: http://www.hewlett.org/ National Endowment for the Humanities: http://www.neh.fed.us/ National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.nea.gov/ National Parks Service: http://www.nps.gov/ The Ford Foundation: http://www.fordfound.org/ The Rockefeller Foundation: http://www.rockfound.org/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: http://www.mellon.org/ The Henry Luce Foundation: http://www.hluce.org/

PerspectivesStrategic

Joel Martin,Interim Deanof the Collegeof Humanities,Arts, andSocial Sciences

Emory Elliott, Director, Center for Ideas and Society

Deborah Wong, AssociateProfessor of Music

UCR HAS GAINED WIDE RECOG-NITION FOR ITS ARTS AND HUMAN-ITIES PROGRAM. WHAT WERE THEKEY FACTORS THAT INFLUENCEDTHAT RECOGNITION?

Emory Elliott: The central factor influ-encing this recognition is the quality of thefaculty, and some of that is because of ourgrowth. We were one of the few researchlevel campuses hiring, so we got many ofthe most outstanding young people justcoming out of graduate school. We alsomade numerous major senior appoint-ments bringing people from top Ivy League

colleges on the East Coast and major stateuniversities from around the country. Inmany cases we have looked for facultymembers who are doing cutting edge workin new areas within their discipline. Sowe’re well known in the country as acollege that has a lot of experimentation, alot of new approaches. It’s exciting forstudents to feel that they are a part of adeveloping field, something that willbecome a new discipline perhaps in thenext ten or fifteen years. So it really feedson itself. It generates excitement andexcitement creates new ideas, and getspeople energized.

Joseph Childers: When I was recruited asan assistant professor, there was a feeling ofthe place as a liberal arts college with aresearch university agenda. So there wasalready a good foundation in place. Thenthroughout the nineties, CHASS took a lotof chances with innovative programs thatbrought very interesting scholars tocampus, people who have contributed invery important ways. One of the hallmarksof this is the dance theory program, whichhas spun off into an MFA in choreography.I think that a real cornerstone of all thishas been the Center for Ideas and Society,especially for the humanities and the arts.

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Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing

Joseph Childers, Associate Professor of English

CIS has been exceptional in bringingimportant people to campus, highlightingthe work of people who are already here,and trailblazing in new areas. It has beenvery successful in underwriting the effortsof younger scholars on campus.

Joel Martin: One important reason forthis achievement is that the arts andhumanities here are not disconnected fromthe social sciences. That keeps all the fieldswithin CHASS grounded and helps usattract faculty and students who want tomake a difference not just to their disci-plines, but in the world. Among otherthings, CHASS faculty and studentsperform important research on law andthe environment, gay studies, criticalcultural policy, medical anthropology, raceand inequality, health psychology andpersonality theory, the social impacts ofbiotechnology, family well-being, religiouscontact and exchange, Native Americancultural revitalization, and many otherareas of vital interest today.

Deborah Wong: Emory’s vision and driveand throwing people together has beencentral to the reason why our humanitiesand arts programs have been drawingattention. The grants that he pulled in,from Ford and Rockefeller, generated ahuge amount of activity, and those activ-ities drew the public eye to us andgenerated a round of fantastic new facultyhires over the past few years. I want toespecially mention Priaya Srinivasan indance and Mariam Beevi Lam, plus theimminent arrival of Toby Miller. We haveall these fabulous new faculty showing upwho are already invested in the kind of

vision that Emory has laid out for us. AndPat O’Brien allowed faculty to take the leadin identifying new initiatives.

Emory Elliott: I’m glad to hear you saythat. I have to tell you that I get lettersfrom our resident faculty at the end ofevery quarter and invariably they saysomething like this: “I needed the time off,I didn’t want to come to the Center. I reallyprefer to work at the library or at home,and having a meeting once a week withother faculty did not appeal to me, becauseI need to get this book done. But now, Iam so glad that I was in a group because Ilearned so much from my colleagues andthat knowledge changed the way I did my

work. The book is going to be much betternow that it would have been if I hadn’t hadthe valuable exchanges at the Center.”

HOW ARE OUR ARTS AND HUMAN-ITIES PROGRAMS RELEVANT TO THECOMMUNITY?

Emory Elliott: For one thing, we have alot of research projects in the arts andhumanities relevant to issues of race andethnicity. So, for example, in the DanceDepartment, we have excellent scholars,such as Anna Scott, working on Black-American dance forms that derive fromAfrica by way of the Caribbean and LatinAmerica. We also have faculty in the Music

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UCR knows that its

quality depends on

taking some risks by

hiring faculty who are

in young fields or at

the very beginning of

what could well

become a break-

through new area.

Emory Elliot

Our faculty is so

incredibly engaged in

their disciplines, and

they are also

connected to the world

around them. What I

see in many of our

faculty is the desire to

make a difference in

the world.

Joel Martin

Department in fields of ethnomusicology,such as you, Deborah, working on themusic of Southeast Asia. We also have astrong emphasis on Chicano/Chicana andLatino/Latina research in many differentdepartments, including English, History,Anthropology, and Ethnic Studies. One ofthe things that has been said by programofficers from national Foundations is howwell we bring the arts and humanities tothe community in general. For example,we have a young professor in the TheatreDepartment, Rickerby Hinds, who earnedhis undergraduate degree at UC Riversideand started a Hip Hop Theatre Festivalhere two years ago on a grant from theFord Foundation. Our Center for Ideas

and Society included him in the grant, andhe then was hired by the TheatreDepartment, partly because of their enthu-siasm about what he’s done in thecommunity with dance and theater.

Joel Martin: CHASS students, like UCRstudents in general, graduate at rates thatoutpace our peer institutions so much thatUCR is ranked as “high performing” by theEducation Trust. In a nutshell, UCR is deliv-ering the American Dream better to a morediverse population than any institution everhas. CHASS faculty deserve a great deal ofcredit for this distinctive success. Becausethey care about their research and theirteaching, they challenge our students todevelop their critical skills even as they helpthem realize their highest intellectualpotential. CHASS graduates will becomeleaders of important institutions, businesses,social and artistic movements, inventors,investors, educators, poets, writers,musicians, artists, critics, journalists,bankers, historians, sociologists, and muchmore. Highly educated young people fromdiverse backgrounds: that’s pretty relevant!

Susan Straight: I have to say that thecommunity is key to creative writing,because of our wonderfully diverse studentpopulation. Nowhere else do you havestudents whose parents immigrated fromthe Philippines and who write poetry aboutgang life in San Bernardino, or studentswhose parents are migrant farm workerswho write fiction about crossing the border.My first year here, I had this student,Rigoberto Gonzalez, and he was from Indio.He was 17 and I was 27. He wrote about oldMexican women right on the border andtheir superstitions during the grape harvest.

Emory Elliott: Recently, two womenfaculty members, one in English, MichelleRaheja, and one in Dance, Jaqueline SheaMurphy, who organized a large conferencein May called “Red Rhythms:Contemporary Methodologies in AmericanIndian Dance,” that brought together someof the leading scholars, choreographers,and performers of Native American dance.The event also involved a remarkableevening of performances held at ShermanIndian High School that gathered otherorganizations in the community, with thecampus community. The recent hiring oftwo new faculty in Native AmericanStudies added to an already strong facultyin the field. We are on our way tobecoming a national leader in the study ofthe indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Joel Martin: Native Americans providedthe foundation for this success. Theyhelped found UCR and established its firstendowed chair, the Rupert Costo Professorof American Indian Affairs. That startedUCR on its path to excellence in NativeAmerican Studies and now we are ready totake the next step to establish somethingelse Rupert Costo, a Cahuilla man,envisaged: The Center for CaliforniaNative Nations. This interdisciplinarycenter has a new co-director, ProfessorVictoria Bomberry, who is going to bringto it her great leadership skills, herorganizing ability, her profound vision.Victoria and others see this Center as adynamic example of what is true to UCR’sunique spirit: doing cutting edge researchthat engages with issues of importance tothe community. That powerful exchangealso characterizes the new Center forSustainable Suburban Development, whichCHASS helped launch and will provideessential comprehensive knowledge for thebenefit of our rapidly developing regionand beyond.

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER EXAMPLESOF UCR’S ARTS AND HUMANITIES?

Joseph Childers: The thing that I’ve beeninvolved with is the Hewlett program,which has been quite good for puttingtogether pilot courses. The course I puttogether with Edmond Otis and MaxNeiman, had to do with the ways we talkabout conflict. It was a three quartercourse and we typically carried between 80to 100 students every quarter. Anothercourse on the 60s and the Vietnam erataught by Katherine Kinney, SteveCullenberg, and Brian Lloyd had similarsuccess.

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Deborah Wong: The two initiatives thatI’m most personally invested in is theSoutheast Asian Studies program, whichwas kicked off with the arrival of HendrikMaier and Mariam Beevi Lam, supportedby Luce Foundation money. With thepeople who were already here, we nowhave a critical mass. We have a Mastersprogram in the works at this point. Theother initiative, still early, has to do withthe hire of Toby Miller from New YorkUniversity as a very senior scholar. He willhead up the program in Film and VisualCulture. He will transform a very popularand successful program, into a newdepartment, tentatively called, “Media andPerformance.” Toby has the big picture inplace, as well as the ability to work closelyand collaboratively with other people, andthe wherewithal to take it forward. He’sgoing to take a program that already has100 majors, and he will carry that forwardin very interesting ways, into a graduateprogram and into departmental status. Inmy own department, we have a new majorcalled music and culture, which focuses onconnections between music and society,including gender and sexuality,race/ethnicity and difference in all itsforms. The other thing I see going on is theemergence of faculty with specialties inLatin America. This will outline perfor-mance in Latin America. These biggerideas out there floating around are gettingrealized in very concrete ways withindepartments.

Emory Elliott: In our college, we arehiring people in the digital areas: digitalarts, film, and music. And the growingdigital program will have people from arts,humanities, and engineering who work

with the newest digital methods andequipment. So there are projects engagingfaculty and students from a range of disci-plines working together in these new areas.

Susan Straight: And don’t forget WritersWeek, now in its 27th year, and drawingaudiences of 1,500 at a time. HarryLawton, who worked in the College ofNatural and Agricultural Sciences, startedWriters Week specifically for thecommunity. He thought, how cool itwould be if we could have an entire weekof writers like Peter Mathiessen, JoyceCarol Oates, and Ken Kesey. Harry Lawtonmade that happen. He got the funding. Heinvited all the authors. There was opennesshere to try new things.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT UCR THAT MAKESTHIS KIND OF PROGRAM POSSIBLE?

Emory Elliott: I think it’s the flexibility ofa young institution that’s the key. I taughtfor 17 years at Princeton University, one ofthe oldest institutions in the country, andit’s a great university. But it’s very difficultto introduce a new field or to change theway things have been done for manydecades. In older institutions, thingssometimes become so well-established andpeople so confident in the ways things havebeen done that the people are reluctant tosee any reasons why there should be newideas or programmatic change. Faculty areoften very skeptical of new ideas, newareas, and they will wait a long time to seehow those areas develop in other placesbefore they decide to move in thatdirection. Whereas UCR knows that its

quality depends on taking some risks byhiring faculty who are in young fields or atthe very beginning of what could wellbecome a break-through new area. Andthat, of course, is very exciting for thefaculty because they are getting to do someof the newest things that are happening inthe academic world.

Susan Straight: I think it’s ourwillingness to try something new, like to gofor an MFA program that requires studentsto work in two different forms, encour-aging them to do a screenplay, and poetry,for instance. It makes people want to cometo UCR because it is less restrictive. Weinterviewed someone for a position here

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We have a great location

in southern California. As

a transplanted east coast

person, I am completely

caught up in the potential

of the west, and specifi-

cally, absolutely vital

immigrant communities.

Deborah Wong

who had gone to Iowa, the granddaddy offiction writing programs. This person wasdying to write a play, and he wasn’tallowed to. We want students to be moreflexible. Look at Hollywood. What a greatthing it would be to be a novelist, but toalso have the ability to write a screenplay,and to know how those sensibilitiesconnect. Also, this is the only UC campuswith an undergraduate major in creativewriting, so UCR gets the creme of thewriting talent.

Deborah Wong: We have a great locationin southern California. As a transplantedeast coast person, I am completely caughtup in the potential of the west, and specifi-

cally, absolutely vital immigrant commu-nities and the culture industry of LosAngeles. It is the movement of new peopleand new ideas into the region in combi-nation with the big bucks high profileindustries of LA. This creates incrediblepromise as well as productive tensions. Weare right in the middle of that. Not on theedge. We are in the middle of that. I’mtired of all the talk of us on the periphery. Idon’t think it’s true.

Joel Martin: I agree with you. And wehave not yet realized our full potential. Wehave been gathering our strength andpositioning ourselves for the next level ofachievement. I do think we have a mandatehere to articulate why the humanities, artsand social sciences are so important in the21st century. We can lead the academy.

HOW DOES THAT FACTOR INFLUENCEFOUNDATIONS OR FACULTY ANDSTUDENT RECRUITMENT?

Joel Martin: When I meet withfoundation officers or meet withprospective faculty or students, they sensethat this is a special place, a place destinedfor the next form of academic leadershipand excellence. They talk less about theways that we connect the disciplines thanhow we grapple with the most seriousintellectual and social problems to actuallyhelp society address these problems instrategic ways. Foundations, faculty, andstudents want to make a difference. UCRenables them to do that.

Susan Straight: When officers camefrom the Ford Foundation, I told themthat we had students like no one else. Theyfunded our “Writers on the Edge” whichwas black women writers for an entire day.They were also very interested in the ideaof an MFA program where someone couldwork on Spanish poetry, in translation, butalso be working on a screenplay.

Joseph Childers: Foundations are inter-ested in innovation, not always, butusually. They are interested in the results ofthat innovation. The kind of creativity thatcomes when you are looking at a projectfrom different perspectives is veryimportant. We have disciplinary bound-aries, but there are a lot of people inter-ested in exploring the frontiers. It wasthere before the Center for Ideas andSociety, but that was the catalyst formaking people aware of each other’s work.It has been extremely important forcreating that space where people can say,“Gee, I think you are doing some inter-esting work and it dovetails with what I’mdoing.”

Deborah Wong: The Luce Foundationgrant is a case in point. A couple ofmembers of the foundation came out tomeet with faculty. What they saw wasfaculty that was energized and excitedabout possibilities here. That energy trans-lates directly into new programs, newideas, new publications. They are lookingfor evidence and we came through. I justchaired two search committees. The peoplewe interviewed said over and over againthat they loved the fact that they would not

Throughout the

nineties, CHASS took

a lot of chances with

innovative programs

that brought very

interesting scholars to

campus, people who

have contributed in

very important ways.

Joseph Childers

only be based in strong departments, butthey would have encouragement to reachout more broadly.

Emory Elliott: When program officers havecome to visit the campus, meet the facultyand hear about their work, they havebecome strong supporters of our college.We’ve had two major grants from the FordFoundation for $400,000 and $450,000, anda major grant from the RockefellerFoundation for $330,000. Such nationalrecognition not only helps to fund theresearch here, but it also signals prospectivefaculty, graduate students, and undergrad-uates that the work being done on thiscampus is second to none in quality andsignificance in the academic arena.

WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE NEXT FIVEOR 10 YEARS AT UCR?

Joel Martin: The best is yet to come.We’ve been building our capacity forgreatness, hiring exceptional faculty to addto those already here, launching new initia-tives and centers, forging new majors forour students, creating graduate programsleft and right, helping our diverse studentssucceed and graduate at rates that surpassother institutions. We can’t rest and wemust do better, particularly in terms ofgaining extramural support, but I do hopewe begin to realize just how special CHASSand UCR are.

Emory Elliott: I think we’ll continue tosee expansion of our top research areas,

and we will see young programs, such asour growing field of film and visualculture, our Native American StudiesProgram, and our digital arts and mediaresearch strengthen and mature. These arearea that Southern Californians have a lotof interest in, and I think we’ll attractexcellent students to these emerging fields.I wouldn’t be surprised to see the field ofCommunications become a major area,perhaps with journalism as a growing field.Nationally, these areas are very popularwith undergraduates today. Other areasthat I think will get even stronger thanthey are now are Dance, Music, Art,Creative Writing, and Theater. We havevery strong foundations in each of thesedepartments upon which to build.Southern California’s culture is very rich inall of these creative and performance areas,and I think that increasing numbers ofstudents who come to UCR will want toenroll in these fields.

Susan Straight: I will be seeing ourstudents’ names on book jackets, andhearing what I know to be true, that thebest, freshest, untold stories come from theInland Empire, and from UC Riverside.I’ve actually heard that from directors ofother graduate writing programs. Plus,some of our graduate students are startinga brand new literary magazine that willrepresent some of the finest literary talentsin the nation. Our founding editor,Jonathan Speight, wants to call it “Crate” tohonor the citrus heritage and the orangecrate labels, so I’m sure it will have a lovely

orange crate label on the cover. Thatmagazine will be able to compete withmagazines like Plowshares, which comesout of Emerson College, the NorthAmerican Review, which comes out of theUniversity of Northern Iowa, andFaultlines, which comes out of UC Irvine.We want a showcase for national talentthat has the sensibilities of the InlandEmpire. For example, the first theme issuecould be called “controlled burn,” and wecould get stories that range from globalwarming to urban sprawl, to the damage alit cigarette can do.

Deborah Wong: Our graduate programsand enrollment simply have to grow. Weare behind the curve on this. This will be akey piece to the success of these initiatives.I say this as a concerned faculty memberand the incoming chair of the graduatecouncil for next year. We are going to havea critical mass of fabulous facultymembers. And those fabulous facultymembers are not only going to be adept atundergraduate teaching, but they are goingto be defining the horizons on newapproaches to media studies, newapproaches to the arts. It is essential thatgraduate students are right there in themix. To state the obvious, graduatestudents are the next generation. But theywill not be attracted by ideas alone. Wehave to put something behind it. We needthe graduate support to bring in the best ofthe best.

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I will be seeing our

students’ names on

book jackets, and

hearing what I know to

be true, that the best,

freshest, untold stories

come from the Inland

Empire, and from UC

Riverside.

Joseph Childers: If we can continue toget foundation support, and supportfrom the central administration soprograms don’t disappear oncefoundation money is no longer available,then we will begin to build on ourreputation that can bring more of thesescholars who straddle traditional disci-plinary lines. It will help us think aboutwhat our curriculum should look like. Ifpeople can think of it as an investment,not a sacrifice, it could become very, veryimportant to UCR. We can draw morereally bright and interesting students toour campus, both undergraduate andgraduate.

CAN TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS BEMAINTAINED, OR ARE WE ALWAYSLOOKING TO CREATE NEW KINDS OFPROGRAMS?

Joel Martin: I think that is a falsedichotomy if it suggests that originalityresides only in new programs. So-calledtraditional programs can be enormouslydynamic. As superb scholars delve deeplyinto problems specific to well-establishedfield of inquiry, say a branch of modernphilosophy, they raise new questions thatexpose weaknesses in argumentation andshake orthodoxies. We need to support andcelebrate that kind of deep delving withindisciplines. By the way, we’re hiring someof the country’s best philosophers, addingto an already great department withinCHASS. At the same time, CHASS is

launching new programs in digital arts,film and visual culture, global studies, andpublic policy, to name a few.

Deborah Wong: What departments havealways offered will continue to be usefuland necessary. But it seems to me a giventhat the way departments define traditionwill change, and it is already happening.All these new ideas emerging from inter-disciplinary encounters moves back to thedisciplinary base. All is in motion, in thebest of ways. Things do not stay the same,nor should they.

Joseph Childers: It goes without sayingthat the kinds of knowledge produced bytraditional programs, are absolutelyessential as building blocks. Unless there isthe training in these disciplines, you can’tgo on to do more ground-breaking andcreative things. What we’ve been findingover the years is that students may be verywell trained in one discipline, but not inothers. By moving toward more collabo-ration and cooperation between the disci-plines, people will get better training andwill bring more diverse critical perspectivesto their work. The goal is productive andimportant research and teaching. Thatcould come through traditional ways andthat can come through interdisciplinaryways. They are not mutually exclusive.They complement each other. Always, thefocus is on the quality of the research andteaching. We have to keep that in mind.

Susan Straight: Traditional programs increative writing have been workshopprograms. We still have a traditional base.You have to be able to write beautifulsentences, and you have to read the classicsof literature. And then you can write anexperimental prose poem, and you can betaken seriously. But I have to say that inCreative Writing, sometimes it is theperson’s experiences that are mostimportant. Anthropology majors makewonderful creative writers, because theypay attention to detail. So at least in myfield, I think we are always looking forinterdisciplinary programming.

Emory Elliott: In my field, there willalways be the traditional areas of researchand classics of the field. In American liter-ature, certain writers have stood the test oftime such as Melville, Twain, Wharton, andJames. What is exciting about Englishdepartments is that new ways of readingthese works are always being discovered.The ways that we read and interpretliterary works tell us as much aboutourselves today as they do about thehistorical contexts in which they werewritten. In literature, it is traditional to beastonished by the new.

Joel Martin: Similarly, CHASS itself willcontinue to challenge, surprise, delight,and enlighten, reinvigorating UCR and theacademy in the process.

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This is the only UC

campus with an

undergraduate

major in creative

writing, so UCR

gets the creme of

the writing talent.

Susan Straight

By Dan BennettEnthusiastic arts patrons frequenting

University of California, Riverside perfor-mances and exhibitions this year enjoywide-ranging opportunities.

Audiences passionate for UCR theater,for instance, were treated to both thewords of Moliere and the timelessness of“MacBeth.” Spring performances include“Red Rhythms: ContemporaryMethodologies in American Indian Dance”and the UCR Choral Society’s concertversion of Purcell’s opera “Dido andAeneas.”

Not only that, folks who frequentedthese performances and others can nextspend warm summer days gazing atphotographs of funny-looking monkeys inan internationally acclaimed, state-of-the-art museum. Now that’s variety.

Dare we say it, fans of UCR arts aregoing bananas concerning their opportu-nities, buoyed by the fact that theuniversity has become a formidablepresence in the Southern California artsscene.

The arts programs and performancesat UCR are thriving, driven by anacademic culture dedicated to artseducation and a supportive surroundingcommunity. Old-fashioned talent,meanwhile, runs rampant.

Richard Hornby, chair of the UCRtheatre department, says the number of

theatre majors has tripled inthe past decade, adding tothe talent pool and quantityof performances.

“More important thannumbers is the high level oftalent - in acting, directing,and design,” Hornby said.“We are attracting more andbetter students for a varietyof reasons. At UCR weprovide more opportunitiesfor undergraduates than atany other UC TheatreDepartment. For example,few theatre departments inthe system - or anywhere else- provide opportunities forundergrads to direct. Since,unlike many UC depart-ments, we do not havegraduate acting programs, undergraduateactors can play major roles here.”

From the fine arts and classics tomodern art and performances on thecutting edge, tradition and modernity aresharing equal billing in these endeavors.Traditional theater accompanies moreexperimental works, such as the recent Cali(ie) Hip Hop Theater Festival.

“I do believe that the arts are thrivingon UCR’s campus, and I think much of ithas to do with the increased activity of thestudent body,” says Hip Hop Theater

Festival founder andtheatre professorRickerby Hinds. “I amconsistently and pleas-antly surprised whileattending eventsfeaturing UCRstudents. From dancegroups to spoken-wordartists to singers, I ammore often than not,moved, entertainedand educated by thework.”Hinds says students inthe theatre departmentare highly skilled.

“The quality andcreativity of facultydirectors isoutstanding,” Hinds

said. “The level of acting as well as thebehind-the-scenes activities of UCRtheatre students, I believe, would rank asgood and in many cases, better than mostcomparable universities in the country.”

In dance, modern and tap dance perfor-mances by UCR students are regularlyscheduled in the community. In music,audiences become more culturally informedthrough performances by the UCR JavaneseGamelan Ensemble, and performances injazz, classical music and Japanesedrumming, among many other forms.

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Audiences

raveabout UCR performing arts

We are attractingmore and betterstudents for avariety ofreasons. At UCRwe provide moreopportunities forundergraduatesthan at any otherUC TheatreDepartment.

Creative writing is also in on the action,with regular events involving student andfaculty writers, as well as novelists andauthors of international renown.

Each year, students from throughout theInland area converge on UCR for a day ofarts performance and education on SweeneyArts Day, while UCR student performersfrequently travel the country showcasingtalent at university arts conferences.

And don’t forget those monkeys. TheCalifornia Museum of Photography inRiverside presents the exhibit “Monkey OnYour Back” through November, featuringinkjet reproductions of amiablephotographs depicting the humorous andpoignant relationships between primatesand humans.

Meanwhile, venues such as the nowthree-year-old and frequently booked ArtsCenter are hopping, as are other campusfacilities, such as the Sweeney Arts Gallery.Riverside also awaits with anticipation the

opening of the Barbara and Art CulverCenter of the Arts, a major arts venuedowntown that is an ambitiouspartnership between local arts patronAnthony Culver and the university.

Box-office results showed that nearly7,000 people attended campus perfor-mances produced by the music, dance andtheatre departments in March, withseason-finale May performances expectedto easily surpass that number.

Community support has been vital,particularly through such entities as theRiverside Cultural Trust, part of an ongoingeffort to make Riverside the center of artsand culture in the Inland Empire by 2005.The Gluck Fellows Program for the Arts hasenabled university performers and educatorsto perform and teach in area schools andnursing homes.

“We are sending out about 515 differentprojects in the current year, compared toabout 250 a few years ago,” said Sarah

Fritsche, Gluck program coordinator. “Thisopportunity has been a very rare and veryfortunate thing for the university. It exposespeople to a variety of programming, every-thing from ballet folklorico to traditionalrenaissance performance to baroque to free-improvisation dance.”

Byron Adams, chair of the musicdepartment, says excellent faculty hashelped create the current atmosphere.

“We have a faculty of national, indeed,international distinction that lovesteaching,” Adams said. “In other words, atUCR we have first-rate scholars,performers and composers who are alsodedicated and effective teachers. We havemanaged to thrive in the face of consistentbudget cuts over the past four years. Weare worried that this new round of budgetcuts will have a serious negative impactupon the music department, and the artsin general.”

Quality and quantity of performances

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has increased, Adams says.“This increase in quality - and in the

number of performances and events thatwe present to the campus and to the localcommunity - has beenconsistent over the years,”Adams said. “In otherwords, given the financialand other support from theadministration, we willcontinue to improve ourcommunity service, oureducational mission, andthe already high level ofour performanceofferings.”

The UCR arts indeedthrive despite obstacles.

“Obviously we are inthe middle of an era ofhorrible budget cuts,” saidJonathan Green, director ofthe California Museum of

Photography, working in tandem with theuniversity on exhibits, staffing andfunding. “But we truly believe we are anessential component of not only Riverside

and the university, but thenational dialogue concerningphotography exhibition. Wehave received overwhelmingsupport from people oncampus and around theworld.”

The museum has earnedrespect for its exhibits,including last year’s ONEGROUND in which fourPalestinian and four Israelifilmmakers were invited toshow their work.

“There was a good deal ofnegotiation and compromisein that exhibit, simplyconvincing these people towork together, then it came

together very nicely,” Green said. “We wantto constantly push the envelope in terms ofrelevance.”

As an example, an upcoming show willhighlight photos of the revolutionary CheGuevarra, assessing how his image hasevolved into a high-fashion statement, ofsorts, worlds away from his original imageas an overthrower of governments.

Meanwhile, the museum has amassedone of the most formidable collections ofonline photographs in the world, makingits online exhibits immensely popular,giving its Web site some 350,000 to400,000 hits a day.

Essential, Fritsche says, is introducingthe arts to potential students.

“The key is helping them realize that thearts are something they can actually study asa major,” she said. “It’s exciting for some ofthese students to realize they can major inmusic, or whatever their interest is.”

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At UCR wehave first-ratescholars,performersand composerswho are alsodedicated andeffectiveteachers.

UCRF ALUMNI MATCHINGGIFT CHALLENGE

To encourage UCR alumnisupport of Evolutions: UCR’s50th Anniversary Campaign, theUCR Foundation Board ofTrustees has established aspecial fund designed to match$1 for $1 all new gifts orpledges given to UCR by firsttime alumni donors. The fundwill also match $1 for $1 theincreased amount of any giftsor pledges made over andabove the largest gift givenwithin the last five years byUCR alumni donors. All quali-fying gifts or pledges made

between March 25, 2004 andJune 30, 2004 will be eligible formatching gift credit. To learnmore or to make a gift online,call the Office of Developmentat (909) 787-5611 or go towww.campaign.ucr.edu. Ofcourse, gifts of all sizes aregreatly appreciated.

First Time Alumni DonorGift Illustration: If a firsttime alumni donor pledges$500 this year (just $41.67 permonth), then an additional$500 of Matching Challengedollars will be designatedtoward the same gift purpose,

and the donor will be recog-nized at the $1,000Chancellor’s Fellowship givinglevel.

Previous Alumni DonorGift Illustration: If an alumnidonor, whose largest gift in thelast five years was $500,decides to pledge $1,000 thisyear (just $83.33 per month),an additional $500 ofMatching Challenge dollarswill be designated toward thesame gift purpose. The donorwill then be recognized at the$1,500 Chancellor’s Associatesgiving level.

D E V E L O P M E N T

N O T E S

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It is with deep appreciation that the University of California, Riverside salutes thevisionary philanthropic leadership of the following individuals, each of whom has pledgedor provided $25,000 or more on behalf of Evolutions: UCR’s 50th AnniversaryCampaign. The list below reflects gifts or pledges made before May 7, 2004. In responseto the latest round of deep California state budget cuts, and in commemoration of UCR’s50th anniversary, Chancellor France A. Córdova launched the public phase of this $50million Campaign in January 2004. The primary goal of this effort is to enhance studenteducation by significantly increasing resources for current and endowed undergraduatescholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty chairs and academic programs. To read moreabout the Campaign, or to make a gift online, please visit us at www.campaign.ucr.edu orcontact the Office of Development at (909) 787-5611.

OUR SINCERE THANKS TO UCR’S GENEROUS SUPPORTERS!

Erik Anderson Robert Benner Fran BilderbackGordon and Jill BournsDonald and Deborah BrithineeWallace Brithinee Clint and Ellen BurrHenry Coil, Jr.France A. Córdova and Christian FosterNicholas and Christina CoussoulisDeborah CulverFrances Culver William D. Dahling, Jr. and Kimberly J. Devlin Janet Davis, Poorman-Hoyt-Stratford FoundationHarkeerat and Deepta DhillonBud and Margo DuttonTed and Jo DuttonJames H. and Janet EricksonJohn C. FoxHarlan GleesonJim and Debbi Guthrie

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The FordFoundationrecentlyawardedUCR a$75,350grant tohost a three-day nationalconferencein early Maythat was thefirst to focus on NativeAmerican dance studies in theUnited States. Two professors,Jacqueline Shea Murphy inthe Dance department andMichelle Raheja in theEnglish department, broughttogether scholars, teachersand dancers from a variety oftraditions to illuminate thecontributions of Nativedancers and choreographersin a conference, called “RedRhythms: ContemporaryMethodologies in AmericanIndian Dance.”

A GOOD WAY TO HELP UCRCELEBRATE ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

A “Royal” Gift in Remembrance ofProvost Gordon Watkins

A recent gift from Rosemarie and Leslie J.Royal provides an excellent illustration of a wayto participate in UCR’s 50th AnniversaryCampaign. The Royals have named UCR asbeneficiary of their retirement plans in order toprovide support for students who need to travelabroad for language study. A primary goal of theaward is to enable students to spend a sufficientlength of time abroad to “immerse” themselvesin the language.

Recognizing the importance of this plan, theydecided to begin the program now with a series ofannual gifts. These giftswill fund the RoseRoyal Fund forLanguage Study Abroadand will beginproviding support thisacademic year.

This gift, Rose said,was in remembranceof Provost GordonWatkins, who helpedher at a critical turningpoint in her life.

Fourth-yeargraduatestudent andDean’sFellowship

recipient Jasmine Payne servesas the public relations officer forthe Graduate StudentAssociation and has chaired theinterdisciplinary graduateconference, (dis) junctions. HerPhD. dissertation will examinefamily relationships inAmerican literature.

On choosing UCR…I chose UCR because of theamazing faculty specializing inAmerican literature within theEnglish Department. I alsochose UCR because it made asignificant financialinvestment in my potential asa scholar and researcher, and Iam proud to be affiliated withsuch a distinguished program.

On UCR-provided resources…UCR’s Mini-grant Programprovides travel monies to

graduate students who presenttheir work at conferences—events that are necessary forprofessional development andcareer advancement. Thisprogram speaks to theUniversity’s unique commitmentto graduate research.

On her Fellowship…Thanks to the fellowshipsupport I received, I was ableto develop strong workingrelationships with the faculty

in my program, as well as tospend that crucial first yearfocusing solely on myacademic work. This peace ofmind insures that the majorityof my energy goes into mystudies rather than worryingabout employment during thischallenging financial period. Iam truly grateful to UCRdonors who support studentslike myself for helping toprovide us with such a richacademic experience.

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Provost Gordon Watkins

How to Make a Gift of YourRetirement Plan

Name UCR as either the primary benefi-ciary of one of your qualified plans, or (ifmarried) as the “contingent” beneficiaryfollowing your spouse.

The surviving spouse can “disclaim” theright to the plan, if the income is not neededat the time, and then name UCR as theprimary beneficiary.

Your retirement plan is an appropriateasset to make your gift because if left to yourheirs, the plan could be subject to bothincome taxes and estate taxes.

In addition, your heirs have to pay tax onthe income they receive. By naming UCR,these taxes are avoided, leaving the totalamount available for your gift!

To find out more about the advantages ofmaking a gift of your retirement plan andother ways to give to UCR’s 50th AnniversaryCampaign, please contact:

The UCR Office of Gift Planning(909) 787-6449 or (909) 787-4104

By Kim Feliciano – ‘05UC Riverside Head Strength

and Conditioning Coach JoshEverett hates the spotlight. Hemuses that an interview mightbe worse than a trip to thedentist. But, who can blamehim? He isn’t a coach whopaces the sidelines, and he willdefinitely never be ejectedfrom a game. In fact, the onlytwo places you are sure to findhim are in the stands atHighlander events, and inEverett’s home-away-from-home, the weight room.Everett works his magic behindthe scenes, and that is the wayhe likes it.

During the school yearwhen teams are in compe-tition, he puts in 50-60 hours aweek. During the “off-season,”or summer months, Everettworks between 30-40 hours.Strictly looking at jobdescription, he overseesstrength training for thestudent-athletes, setting up thedays and times that individualteams come in to train,guiding them through theirteam and individual workouts,and creating programs basedon the demands of each sport,tweaking the schedule basedupon the point of the seasonand the needs of the student-athlete.

“As a strength and condi-tioning coach, you have twoprimary objectives, to improveperformance and preventinjury,” Everett said. “Myphilosophy is more along thelines of developing the wholeathlete, to improve theirathleticism whether it be instrength, flexibility, endurance,quickness or agility. It’s notstrictly about ‘getting biggerand stronger.’ That might be

part of it depending on thesport, but we try to include alittle bit of everything in ourworkouts.”

Everett believes he can makeevery athlete into a betterathlete, no matter what sportthey play, and that there areaspects of athleticism thatcome down to the smallestgesture.

“Some athletes will havenegative body posture,negative facial expressions,even say negative things, andwe try to turn that around,”Everett said. “One of the thingsI’m always harping on in theweight room is that I want theathletes to ‘attack the weights.’I want them to be aggressivejust as they would be on thecourt or the field.”

“Collectively, we all likehim,” says Casandra Reeves(’05), a starting senior guardfrom Apple Valley, California.“He is a great guy with a lot ofenergy for what he does; heloves his job, he’svery passionate,and he’s reallysupportive of us.”

Head VolleyballCoach SueGozansky agrees.“He’s cute andeverybody workshard to impresshim,” she laughed.“Seriously, he is aprofessional. He isin there to do ajob, is good at thatjob and expectseveryone to dotheir part.”

Everett is notshy about that lastpoint.

“We teach theathletes to get the

job done every day,” Everettsaid. “Having the ability to comein focused, and to shut outeverything else for that hourthey are training. The moreconsistent an athlete is in theweight room with his/her workethic and giving 100 percentevery time, that will carry overnot only to their sport but totheir everyday lives. It will helpthem with schoolwork, inrelationships with family andfriends, boyfriends, girlfriendsand the like.”

Born and raised in Ohio,Everett ran track and playedfootball at both Shawnee HighSchool and Ohio NorthernUniversity, where he was a five-time conference champion inhurdle and relay events andearned All-American OutdoorTrack and Field honors in the4x100 relay. In football, he wasthe star running back. Heoriginally planned onbecoming a high schoolteacher and coach, but

changed his career pathfollowing an epiphany during,of all things, a theatre class.

“It was one of those liberalarts requirements, and in oneof the first meetings theteacher told us that the key tohappiness is finding somethingyou love to do, and becomingso good at it that someone iswilling to pay you to do it. Ithought about it, and realizedthat teaching wasn’t it. Then itdawned on me that I enjoyedthe off-season as much as I didthe in-season and competition.I liked lifting weights, running,and the challenge of becomingbetter than your opponents. Ittook me a couple days, butfinally I realized I could be astrength coach. I could helppeople achieve their dreamsand get more out ofthemselves than they eventhought they could.”

Everett earned a degree inphysical education from OhioNorthern, then went to OhioUniversity where he metstrength coach Ethan Reeveand earned a masters degree inAthletics Administration. Hehad a two-year internship at

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Man Behind the Muscles

Head strength and conditioning coach Josh Everett with members ofUCR’s volleyball team

John Margaritishas been hired asUC Riverside’snew head women’sbasketball coach.Margaritis hasbeen coaching atthe college levelfor 26 years,coming to UCRfrom NorthernArizonaUniversity, where he had beenassociate head women’sbasketball coach since 1996.

“We are thrilled to be ableto hire a coach of John’scaliber,” Athletics Director StanMorrison said. “He has astrong dedication to athleticand academic success. I believethat he will take this programto new heights.”

Margaritis will be a familiarname to Inland Empirebasketball fans, who mayremember him from a three-year stint at Cal StateUniversity San Bernardino. Hebegan his Coyote career as anassistant coach in 1993, wherehe helped the program to a 29-4 record and a runner-upfinish in the 1994 NCAADivision II national

tournament. In 1995-96 he was namedinterim headwomen’s basketballcoach at CSUSB, anddespite having justseven scholarshipplayers and beingpicked to finish last,he led the team to asecond place finish inthe CCAA with a 7-3

mark.Margaritis joined NAU in

1996-97 and was promoted toassociate head coach threeyears ago. With theLumberjacks he assisted in allfacets of the program,including on-court coaching,recruiting, scouting, sched-uling, budgets, team travel,community and campusrelations and co-directingbasketball camps.

He began his career in 1979as an assistant coach at hisalma mater, NortheasternIllinois, while still an under-graduate student. He becamehead women’s basketball coachof the NAIA program in 1981,leading his team to a No. 6national ranking in 1984 andto the NAIA Elite Eight

appearance in 1985. During histenure he coached three All-Americans.

In 1985 he was hired asassistant women’s basketballcoach at the University ofNevada in Reno, then in 1988he became head coach atNational-Louis University inEvanston, IL, taking a teamthat had won just three gamesthe year before and leadingthem to a 15 win season.Following the campaign, hewas hired at Fresno StateUniversity as an assistantwomen’s basketball coachunder legendary coach BobSpencer. Margaritis served asdefensive coordinator from1989-91 and offensive coordi-nator in 1991-92, and alongthe way helped the 1989-90team to a 21-12 record and apost-season NIT berth. He leftFresno State following the 1993season to begin his tenure atCal State San Bernardino.

Margaritis, 45, is a 1982graduate of NortheasternIllinois University with adegree in Secondary PhysicalEducation. He and his wife,Laurie, have two sons, Peter,15,and Christopher, 13.

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UCLA, then was hired at UCRin the summer of 2001,following the school’s move toDivision I. His hiring waslauded by Director of AthleticsStan Morrison as “one of themost important hires for thefuture athletic success of thisuniversity.”

To measure success is tough.He looks at a team’s perfor-mance, but also individualimprovement in the weightroom. “I know that if they aregetting better in here with methen they’re getting better out

there in their sport.”Everett credits the head

coaches, who make it possiblefor him to be successful. “Myjob is a lot easier if I have thefull and enthusiastic supportfrom the head coach, because ifthat person really believes inme and what I’m trying tobring to his/her team I can getthat team going, and excitedfor sure.”

Head Men’s BasketballCoach John Masi agreed.“More than anything, Joshbrings us another voice,

another coach who allows thehead coach to step back and toallow the student-athletes tohear a different perspective.”

But, Everett says, perhaps thegreatest measure of success is apersonal one.

“When athletes come up tome personally after the seasonor graduation to thank me forhelping them, that makes mefeel really good.” And that isbetter than all the spotlights inthe world.

Braveheart Auctionis Best Ever

Rave reviews have been pouring into the UCRAthletics Department following the fourth annualBraveheart Auction and Food Festival, held April16, 2004 at the Riverside Convention Center.

“ Without question, this was the finest eventthat we have had,” Director of Athletics StanMorrison said. “The auction went very well andRoy Firestone blew the doors off the building withhis show. My phone hasn’t stopped ringing.People are thrilled, and this is truly becoming oneof the marquee social events in Riverside.”

Approximately 850 paid guests perused over700 silent auction items and sampled food, beerand wine from some of the area’s finest eatingestablishments, while meeting the student-athletesand coaches from UCR’s 17 intercollegiateathletics programs.

Morrison inducted three new members into the“Order of Braveheart,” the highest service recog-nition award presented by UC Riverside. Then heauctioned off items such as a night in ShaquilleO ’ Neal’s luxury box at the Staples Center, and atrip for eight to a castle in Paris. Firestone, aworld-renowned interviewer and entertainer,delighted the crowd with a 60 minute multi-mediaand music presentation.

Former UCR student-athlete and Chair of theUCR Board of Trustees Amy S. Harrison and UCRBoard of Trustees members and constructionmoguls Gene and Jacques Yeager were the eighth,ninth and tenth people inducted into the Order ofBraveheart.

“ Amy Harrison was the most prolific femaleathlete in UCR history, and following her gradu-ation she went on to a career in the education ofabused, challenged, and disadvantaged children,rapidly becoming a national leader in the field.Her Advocate Schools provide opportunities andcare for hundreds of thousands of children. UCR isvery lucky to be the beneficiary of her leadership,dedication, and hard work. ”

“ The Yeagers provided leadership andregional creditability that was vital during ourmove into NCAA Division I and the Big WestConference,” Morrison said.

Highlander Women Have New Basketball Coach

Cliff Dochterman, associate athleticsdirector-development and StanMorrison, director of athletics auctionoff Shaq’s shoes.

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DOG DAYS OF SUMMERJune 3 – Aug. 29, 2004

Summer 2004 atUCR/California Museum ofPhotography is officially forthe dogs. Dog Days of Summer(June 3 – Aug. 29, 2004) is anexploration of the dog inphotography, video, and film.Featuring over twenty artists,this ambitious show is bothinquisitive and entertaining asit explores images from late19th century photographythrough postmodern andpolitical deconstructions of thedog and society.

Dog Days of Summer takesa comprehensive look at thedog as a figure in national andinternational culture. Artistsinclude Diane Arbus, RogerBallen, Jo Ann Callis, TonyMendoza, Susan Meiseles,Yoshimoto Nara, and Joseph

Vitone, to name a few. Thework ranges from DianeArbus’s interesting positioningof the dog within the context ofmarginal subcultures toYoshimoto Nara’s portrayal ofa dog in war-ravagedAfghanistan. Through theseimages, the seemingly simplisticrelationship between humansand dogs is revealed by way of acomplex reanalysis of the dog’srole in the human narrative.

As one of the few exhibi-tions that investigate the dogthrough photography, painting,found objects, and film, DogDays of Summer provides fasci-nating insight into thisrelatively unexplored subject.For more information, pleasevisit UCR/California Museumof Photography online athttp://www.cmp.ucr.edu or call909-787-FOTO.

BROAD TERRITORIES :IMAGES OF IDENTITY &BITS AND PIECESApril 24 – July 4, 2004

Continuing exhibitions atUCR/California Museum ofPhotography include BroadTerritories : Images of Identityand Bits and Pieces. BroadTerritories features MarkBradford, Barbara Carrasco,Mark Steven Greenfield, andChristina Miguel-Mullen,artists who address issues that

include the assertion, marginal-ization, and recognition of class,ethnicity, gender, race, sexualorientation, and other variablesthat mark identity. Bits andPieces explores the theme of thefragmented and disembodiedwith new media artwork thatlooks at isolated parts of thehuman body through the lens ofthe arts and sciences. Artistsinclude Cheryl Cotman, AnnieLoui, Simone Jones, LanceWinn, and Mark Zaki.

UC Riverside isproud to presentMusic By theTower, a series ofoutdoor concertsheld on the lawnof the ArtsBuilding. Now in

its 19th year, this popular serieshas attracted familiesthroughout the Inland Empirewho look forward to the bestlineup of jazz, world and popmusical entertainment. Bringlawn chairs, blankets andpicnic dinners and join the

fun starting at 6 p.m., July 11,July 18 and July 25. Parkingavailable in Lot 1 for $5. Formore information, contactCultural Events at (909) 787-4629 or the Web site atwww.culturalevents.ucr.edu

CulturalEvents

UCR/CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

UCR/California Museum ofPhotography recently receivedsubstantial grants from theInstitute of Museum andLibrary Sciences (IMLS) andthe National Endowment forthe Humanities (NEH). TheIMLS grant will provideUCR/CMP with significantresources to redesignUCR/CMP’s popular Web sitewhich garners over 300,000 hitsa month. UCR/CMP’s Web siteis crucial to photography’sworldwide audience, providingresearch material for both theeveryday Web browser andscholars. In addition tomaking the Web site moreuser-friendly, the redesign

allows users to peruse theextensive collection of 3-Dimages housed in UCR/CMP’spermanent collection. TheNational Endowment for theHumanities granted funds todigitize UCR/CMP’s Keystone-Mast Collection. Focusing onimages of the Middle East, thedigitization of these images willallow access to vital andimportant images of this politi-cally sensitive region. Bothgrants secured UCR/CMP’scontinued dedication to refineand build upon technology-based initiatives in four majorareas of UCR/CMP:Exhibitions, Digital Studio, theWeb, and Collections.

MAJOR GRANTS AWARDED TO UCR/CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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This spring, the Sweeney ArtGallery hosted the largest SeniorArt Thesis exhibition: thirty-onegraduating studio art majorspresented their thesis projects intwo sequential exhibitions.Clearly the arts are growing inprominence in the InlandEmpire and the notoriety of theUCR art-related departments isincreasing as well. For example,many of the graduating studentswho have exhibited at theSweeney will be continuing theirstudies in prestigious graduateprograms in art and visualstudies.

Graduating senior DiegoGarza is a Corona native, whowill be enrolling this fall in theMFA program at Cal Arts inValencia, CA. His video-instal-lation project addresses thecomplex interplay of memoryand sensation. As Diegodescribes it, “Pre-empting theLoss of Memory #2 is an attemptto capture an instance in whichmemory is about to be lost. Thedeath of a memory issymbolized by the video pieceplaying on a monitor that hangsdangerously over a water tank.”

Also starting her MFA at CalArts in the fall is Turkish-bornIlknur Demirkoparan who wasraised in Turkey and in the U.S.Ilknur’s cross-culturalupbringing has informed herproject Asuman Hatun. Ilknurre-casts Asuman Hatun, a rebel-lious character from Turkishliterature, into a child’s actionfigure. The artist has playfullymanipulated and re-contextu-alized the depiction of Turkishwomen in Western art and liter-ature (just recall the submissiveHarem setting) into a Turkishwarrior woman. As Ilknurexplains, “she is also a criticismof the Turkish tourism industrythat often cashes in on what theWest wants to see.”

Ilknur’s younger sister, VuslatDemirkoparan is a graduatingsenior with a double major inStudio Art and English; in thefall, she will enroll in UC Irvine’sVisual Studies Ph.D. program,where she intends to researchcontemporary Turkish(immigrant) hip-hopmovements in Germany. Vuslatparticipated in the 2003 SeniorArt Thesis Exhibition. Her

mixed-media installationHosting Strangers:Transformation ofCultural Identity — agiant three-foot, 200 lbssugar-coated Turkish-style tea cup mechanizedto rotate/revolve in aquasi planetary motion –questioned notions ofcultural hospitality. Thisproject relied heavily onthe artist’s fracturedexperiences of nationalismand identity. Vuslatexplains, “I am interested in(inter)cultural relationships andmy experience of growing up ina ‘foreign’ culture, while slowlyand simultaneously becoming‘foreign’ in my ‘home country’.”

In the coming years, UCR artstudents won’t have to lookfarther then their owndepartment to continuegraduate work. Spearheaded byinternationally recognizedartists John Divola, Uta Barth,and Jill Giegerich, amongothers, the UCR ArtDepartment will launch an MFAProgram in the 2004-2005academic year. The program’s

stated goal, “to provide a contextfor research and production ofcontemporary art at the highestlevel,” as well as the presence ofthe advanced-level artists, willsurely bring even more attentionto the arts in the Inland Empire.

The Sweeney Art Gallery isacross from the UC Riversidecampus in Watkins House, 3701Canyon Crest Drive, Riverside.Hours are Tuesday throughSaturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Admission is free. Web site:http://sweeney.ucr.edu Call 909/ 787-3755 for moreinformation or exhibition images.

Sweeney Art Gallery AllowsArtists to Take Next Step

The Departments ofDance, Music and Theatrepresented more than 30 eventsby faculty, students, and guestartists during the Springseason. Highlights includedThe Cali (ie) Hip Hop TheatreFestival, a Theatre Departmentproduction of Sondheim’s Intothe Woods and a conferencebringing scholars andperformers of native dancetraditions together called RedRhythms: ContemporaryMethodologies in AmericanIndian Dance. Other dancehighlights include a lecture,Reading the Stones and

Centering the World:Contexts for Maya RitualPerformance by AnitaGonzalez, the award recipientof the Christena L. SchlundtLecture Series in DanceStudies; On Reflection, aperformance/installation byRuth Barnes with originalmusic by Barbara Bennett; andchoreographer MelanieKloetzel’s IN PLACE: Dancingthrough Downtown Riversideat the UCR/CMP. TheDepartment of Music intro-duced UCR is Improvising,seven concerts of contem-porary improvisation perfor-

mances of music, dance andperformance art.

The year ended with theUCR Jazz and Wind Ensemble,a tribute to Irving Berlin andBig Band sounds and UCRChoral Society’s concertversion of Purcell’s opera, Didoand Aeneas.

Don’t forget next season’stheatre productions The LittlePrince by Antoine de SaintExupéry and Shakespeare’s AMidsummer Night’s Dream.Tickets: (909) 787-4331.Information: (909) 787-3245,www.performingarts.ucr.edu,kathleen.deatley@ucr.edu

Spring Concerts, Festivals and Performances Move the Campus

Vuslat Demirkoparan installing HostingStrangers: Transformation of CulturalIdentity

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By Joan KiteStaff Writer

Since the 1970s, continuingeducation has increasinglyfocused on programs andcourses designed to prepare thestudent for a career in theworkplace. Humanities andliberal arts classes took abackseat as students rushed totake courses that would lead toa higher income or greater jobadvancement – courses such ascomputer programming,engineering, medicaltechnology or biology.

“Education in this countryhas become moreand more job-related,” said Dr. LeeGladden, aninstructor at UCRiverside Extensionwho is teaching“Philosophy ofLiving Through theArts” this summer.Gladden has morethan 30 yearsexperience teachingphilosophy andpsychology atRiversideCommunity College.

Gladden said hesuspects thependulum is endingits swing from thetechnical and scien-tific side of academia back to amore well-rounded liberal artseducation. He predicts a revivalin the arts and humanities atthe undergraduate level and inpost-baccalaureate non-tradi-tional continuing educationprograms.

In fact, his prediction isbacked up by universities suchas Harvard, Stanford and Duke,which recently revised theircore curriculum and returned

to their roots of a strong liberalarts education.

UC Riverside Extension ispreparing for the renaissance.“We are always attuned to theinterests of our students, andthe study of the arts andhumanities is a crucial part oflearning,” said Jack Azzaretto,dean of UC Riverside Extensionand Vice Chancellor of PublicService and InternationalPrograms. “Studying human-ities and the arts helps studentslearn how to analyze infor-mation, solve problems and beopen to new ideas, which is

crucial in today’smulticulturalenvironment.”

Last year,Extension namedToni Lawrence asthe new directorof the Arts &HumanitiesDepartment.Lawrence, whoearned her M.F.A.in Film andTelevision fromUCLA, alsoadministersUCR’s OsherLifelong LearningInstitute, whichoffers stimulatingcourses, primarilyin the arts and

humanities, to those ages 50and older.

Lawrence is busy reinventingexisting certificate programs inher department, includinginterior design, creative writing,multimedia, Web, and graphicdesign. Her department is alsoconstantly developing newcourses in response to theincreasing interest in the artsand cultural topics.

Classes planned for the near

future include the art ofrenovating historic buildings,anthropology, sports photog-raphy, Frank Lloyd Wright inLos Angeles, Latin jazz, and thehistory of rock and roll.

To add a global dash ofexcitement to the Arts &Humanities curriculum,Lawrence is incorporating inter-national study tours into hercurriculum. In April she traveledto New Zealand with membersof the Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute. They learned all aboutthe country and its peoplebefore traveling in April. Herstudents visited many sitesincluding the WhakarewarwaArt Center, known for fosteringthe budding careers of Maoriartists.

In October, Osher memberswill travel to Italy to visitcultural treasures like the inter-nationally acclaimed artmuseum, the Galeria dell’Accademia, the Piazzo SanMarco in Venice and theColosseum in Rome. Prior tothe trip students will studyItaly, its art, music, language,and culture.

Another growing trend in

continuing education is therising number of maturelearners. Many people, whohave spent their lives focusedon careers and families, are nowinterested in learning about thefiner things of life: art, liter-ature and music.

With that in mind, Lawrencecreated “Renaissance Fare forSummer Days,” a collection ofdaytime courses. Class topicsinclude: “Introduction toArcheology” taught by archae-ologist and anthropologist Dr.Ayse Taskiran; “The Music ofItaly” taught by ethnomusicol-ogist Dr. Robert Catalano; and“Exploring Cultures throughCinema” taught by Russianeducator Dr. Elena Romine.

Gladden’s class, “Philosophyof Living Through the Arts,” isincluded in that series. Gladdenhas been teaching Osher’s 50+students for the past threequarters.

“I have remarkablestudents,” he said. “Some of thebest I’ve ever taught. They havebroad experience. Many havetraveled extensively.”

www.unex.ucr.edu

An Arts Revival inContinuing Education

Dr. Robert Catalano, who will teach "The Sound of Italy: Arias,Tarantellas and Canzoni d'Amore" this summer at UC RiversideExtension, plays the oud, or Arabic lute, for his students

We arealwaysattuned tothe interestsof ourstudents, andthe study ofthe arts andhumanities isa crucial partof learning

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By Melissa ConwayAmong the most essential

components of any center forthe Arts and Humanities is anoutstanding research library. AtUC Riverside we are fortunate tohave four outstanding libraries,known collectively as the UCRLibraries. They comprise theTomás Rivera Library; theScience Library; the MusicLibrary and Music Collections;and the Media Library.

Within two of these separatelibraries are further specializeddepartments including SpecialCollections, located in theRivera Library. Within SpecialCollections itself, there are eightcollections organized aroundthemes essential to research andstudy in the Arts andHumanities including theHistory of the Arts, the Historyof California and the AmericanSouthwest, the History ofScience, Hispanic/LatinAmerican History and Culture,Literary and Cultural Studies,Native American Studies, andWestern European Civilization,including BibliographicalStudies. The key collection inthe area of Native Studies is, ofcourse, the Rupert Costo Libraryof the American Indian.

The collection is the gift of aremarkable Native Americancouple, Rupert and JeannetteDulce Costo. Beginning withtheir marriage in 1954, theCostos amassed more than 7,000books, several hundred artifactsincluding Indian baskets, andmore than 50,000 archivaldocuments. The documents

contain unique records of theCostos’ ground-breaking workas publishers and activiststhrough the American IndianHistorical Society.

The Costo Library is not astatic entity, however, and as finea collection as the Costos built,there are still items that must beadded if it is to remain a leadingresource for research and study.Because the Costos were unableto leave an endowment to fundthe continuing growth of thelibrary collection, SpecialCollections relies on thegenerous donations of alumniand others within the largercommunity.

An important recentaddition to the Costo Library,made possible by alumnidonations, is The AmericanAboriginal Portfolio(Philadelphia, c1853). A classicin Native American history, itseemed a most appropriateaddition because just as theCosto Library was the result ofthe collaboration of Rupert andJeannette, The AmericanAboriginal Portfolio was theresult of the collaboration ofanother married couple, Mrs.Mary Henderson Eastman andCaptain Seth Eastman. Mostfittingly, the work was writtenalmost exactly 100 years beforethe Costos met and married.

What makes the EastmanPortfolio so important to NativeAmerican Studies is that it isone of the earliest works onNative Americans based onfirsthand experiences. Mrs.Eastman, having followed her

husband to Fort Snelling inwhat was then the Minnesotaterritory, made the effort tolearn some of the language ofthe Native peoples of theDakotas so that she could learndirectly from them about theirculture. Captain Eastman, aformer drawing instructor atWest Point, had the distinctionof having spent more timeamong the Indians of the trans-Mississippi West than any othernineteenth-century artist. Hewas, in fact, one of the few torecord the everyday activities ofIndian life, including gatheringwild rice, spearing fish, dressingbuffalo-skins, and procuringfuel (See illustration). While thework is not devoid of many ofthe unfortunate prejudicesagainst Native Americanscommon in the nineteenthcentury, it still distinguishesitself as one of the more sympa-thetic studies of its day.

We invite all alumni and allthose interested in NativeAmerican history to come toSpecial Collections to see theEastman Portfolio and otherhighlights of the Costo Library.For those who would like tobecome partners in thecontinuing growth of thecollection by making a donationto the acquisition fund forclassics in Native Americanhistory, please see the list of titleswe wish to add to the collectionat http://americanindian.ucr.edu/unique_heritage/costo_library/donations.html. At the Home-page of this same Web site, youcan also take a ‘virtual’ tour ofthe Costo Reading Room whilelearning more about Rupert andJeannette Costo and theirpriceless gift to the UCRLibraries.

Melissa ConwayHead, Special Collectionsmelissa.conway@ucr.edu

special_collections@ucr_libraries

The Continuing Growthof the Costo Library ofthe American Indian

Illustration by S. Eastman from The American AboriginalPortfolio.

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By Jeanne ChungJennifer Lynn (Runner)

Wright (’03) graduated lastsummer and was immediatelyfaced with some life-changingdecisions.

She married July 4 andmoved to Alabama. A monthlater, the newlywed donated akidney to her sister, RebekahRunner, who had AutosomalRecessive Polycystic KidneyDisease (ARPKD).

“I feel like within a family,you need to pull together,

especially during the hardtimes,” Jennifer said, whilerecovering with her sister atLoma Linda UniversityMedical Center shortly afterthe operation. Without thatkidney, Rebekah would haveneeded dialysis – a procedurethat involves being hooked upto a machine for several hourseach week to filter the body’stoxins – wondering if hername moved up on a kidney-transplant waiting list.

Jennifer graduated with a

bachelor’s of science degree inbusiness administration. Shewas active in Golden KeyInternational Honor Societyand Gamma Beta Phi honorsociety during her senior year.Her favorite memory of UCRis making new lifelong friendson campus. Currently, she is ahomemaker who keeps busywith attending different Armyspouses’ club meetings andchurch activities. Her futureplans include a governmentservice job – once she and herhusband are relocated to a newArmy post in a few months –and getting involved involunteer work.“UCR has made me feel muchmore prepared and confidentabout my future,” Jennifersaid. “I learned valuablelessons both in and out of theclassroom.” She said thekidney donation brightenedher own outlook on life.“Rebekah means so much tome, and I’m just happy that Icould help her.”

Jennifer was not the first ofthe four Runner sisters todonate a kidney to a sibling.Four years ago, the eldest ofthe Runner sisters, SuzanneTyner, 24, donated a kidney toVanessa Runner, 19. The wholeRunner family has witnessedthe way organ transplantsimprove and transform lives,and they encourage others toconsider it. Tyner said, “Ididn’t think about the surgery

or losing an organ … I wastotally normal after thesurgery. I’m normal now.There isn’t a reason not todonate.”

Jennifer agrees. “It felt reallyrewarding,” she said. “I can’timagine anyone not wantingto donate an organ. It can givea person a chance at a normallife.”

Q&A with Carol Maas,Living Donor KidneyTransplant Coordinator atLoma Linda University MedicalCenter

1. What is your view on thebenefits of donating anorgan?With the growing number ofpeople seeking a kidney trans-plant, the wait can be severalyears for a deceased donorkidney. If someone has a livingdonor, the wait can be just afew months. A kidney from aliving donor also has greaterlongevity compared to akidney from a deceased donor.For the donor there is thegreat satisfaction of knowinghe/she gave the gift of arenewed life to anotherperson.

2. What do you believeprevents most people fromdonating an organ?There are many factors such ashealth issues, financial issues,and work issues to name a few.Many people are concernedabout the effect on their ownhealth if they give away one oftheir kidneys.

Alumna Gives Gift of Life

Who is a golf analyst forCBS and a professionalgolfer on the senior tour?

Gary McCord ’71

UCR alumni and friendsare invited to join the BayArea Alumni Chapter onWednesday, June 16, 2004 forthe performance by the SanFrancisco Opera of LaBohème. Often described as“the best love story ever sung,”La Bohème follows theromance of the poet Rodolfoand the beautiful Mimì, set inthe colorful garrets of Paris.This will be a special event notonly for opera buffs, but isalso a wonderful opportunityfor those who have neverattended the opera to see whatall the excitement is about!

Update your opera

knowledge at the free pre-opera talk in the main theatreand learn something that willsurely impress your friendsand family. At the first inter-mission, meet up with otherUC alumni at a privatechampagne toast at the GrandTier North Promenade.

Wednesday, June 16, 2004Tickets, including privatechampagne reception, are:Orchestra Rear $77Dress Circle $77Balcony Front $52

For more information or topurchase tickets go towww.sfopera.com/aauc

Bay Area Chapter to participate in the UCAlumni Night at the Opera – La Bohème

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The University of Californiaearlier this year unveiled astrategic advocacy campaigndesigned to address state budgetcuts the system has experiencedover the last four years. At thesame time, the UC Riversidecampus launched a newelectronic advocacy tool thatwill allow alumni, parents andfriends to communicate quicklyand effectively with key electedofficials. Facing the prospect ofa fifth consecutive year ofreduced state support, UCembarked on an ambitiousadvocacy campaign involving allcorners of the 10-campussystem, from students to alumnito The Regents. The systemwideeffort set its sights on keydecision makers in Sacramento,ranging from legislators andtheir staffs to the Governor andmembers of his budget team.UC President Robert Dynes, in aletter calling on alumni andfriends of UC to take action,stated, “…The message we aresending is clear: Investment inhigher education is critical tothe economic growth and well-being of California, now and inthe future…California cannotafford to disinvest in studentopportunity. To keep ourpromises to California's youngpeople, we need to provideaccess to UC for eligiblestudents, adequate financial aidfor those in need, and continuedprograms in K-12 schools tostrengthen academic readinessfor college.”

The first tangible results of

the campaign came in the formof a budget compact betweenthe Governor and UC and CSUleaders, which was announcedon May 11. The agreementprovides for annual growth instate funding for UC’s basicbudget and enrollment growth,beginning in the 2005-06 fiscalyear, in exchange for UCcommitment to accountabilityin specific areas. The agreementextends through the 2010-11fiscal year. Under the agreement,UC still will sustain significantbudget cuts in the 2004-05 fiscalyear as the state grapples with alarge budget gap, however, theGovernor’s May Revisionbudget did not propose cuts forUC any larger than those in hisJanuary budget.

“After years of deep budgetcuts with no end in sight, thiscompact brings the promise ofrenewed fiscal stability forpublic universities inCalifornia,” said Dynes. “Underthe compact, UC will receivefunding to preserve its interna-tionally acclaimed academicprograms, to provide broadaccessibility for promisingCalifornia students, and tosustain its deep impact on theeconomy, health, and quality oflife of California.”

Because Sacramentoneeds to hear directly fromindividual UC supporters,and lots of them, thiscampaign is intentionallydesigned to have a “grass-roots” flavor. Individualadvocates will receive infor-mation about the variety ofways they can participate,whether it is taking a minuteto send the Governor anemail (the campaign willprovide model communica-tions), attending special UC

events, or perhaps visiting witha UC delegation to a legislativeoffice. Advocates will also bedirected to sources of infor-mation where they can getregular updates on the progressof the campaign, the results oftheir efforts, and how they canhelp enlist others to join ourcampaign.

Information about thecampaign, UCR’s new electronicadvocacy tool and how toparticipate can be found atwww.ucforcalifornia.org/riverside/home. To read PresidentDynes complete letter go towww.alumni.ucr.edu/about/advocacy.html

UC President, Robert Dynes, AnnouncesBold New Advocacy Program

Who is currently servingas the California StateSenator for the 24thDistrict?

Gloria Romero ’80 M.A.,’83 Ph.D.

3. What words of advice doyou have for such patients?The first ever kidney trans-plants were from livingdonors. Looking back overthe last 40 years at livingkidney donors, researchershave found that having onekidney does not shorten thedonor’s life or increase therisk of kidney failure. Akidney donor should avoidactivities with an increasedrisk of trauma to theremaining kidney. This is whypolice officers and militarypersonnel are excluded fromkidney donation. Educatingoneself about kidney donationis the first step. There areseveral Web sites with infor-mation about living donation.The following two sites areexcellent: www.living-donors.org and www.trans-plantliving.org.

4. Could you describe whatyou have observed regardingdiseases such as ARPKD(their effects, the benefits oforgan transplants, etc.) fromyour personal encounterswith patients?For the majority of peoplewith kidney failure, a kidneytransplant is a “new lease onlife.” Just a few days afterundergoing the kidney trans-plant, recipients say they canfeel a difference for the better.Their skin color improves;their energy level increasesalong with their appetite. Ithink for most, the freedomfrom dialysis is one of theirgreatest joys. I want people toremember that though no oneis obligated to donate akidney, it is the most preciousgift one person can give toanother.

UC President Robert Dynes

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“UCR in its beginning dayswas a small uncrowded andvery special campus. As amarried student I was workinga 40-hour swing shift atBourns Laboratories andcarrying a full schedule at theUniversity. Classes weresomewhat limited and we tookunusual courses to fulfillbreadth requirements,especially in the social sciences(ethnology for example). Thecloseness to fellow studentsand to the instructors was aunique and probably historicalnot to be repeated event.During the first year, the onlysports were intramural footballand a fledgling basketballteam. There were some heatedtable tennis sessions withEddie Cowan and RonEndeman. The university islarger now and perhaps moresuccessful, but somehowlooking back I am very gratefulfor the experience shared onlyby the Pioneer Classes.”Jacques Tournier ’58

“I remember doingphotography,rewrite, and playreviews for theHighlander withMike Hogan aseditor and Peggy Popper alsodoing rewrite. I also did someadvertising photographs forthe yearbook. The shootssometimes didn’t work out toowell, like the time I discovered(after the shoot) that there wasno film in the camera.”Ronald Zane ’58

“Some time around 1959 Irode my horse Balthazar fromthe orange grove in which hewas stabled to visit UCRfriends. At one point I parkedBalthazar in Bill and Mary LeeReynolds’s garden – only to

discover soon after thatsomeone had left a gate openand that Balthazar hadescaped. I chased him downEighth Street, but horses, Idiscovered, run faster thanpeople and we eventually metup again at his stable. When Igot to class the next day, Ifound a drawing of the chaseon the blackboard. Evidentlysome of my students hadwitnessed this odd event.”Herbert Lindenberger(Faculty 1954-1966)

“One night in 1979 we lit upthe sky at UCR with apowerful Xenon lampmounted on the roof of one ofthe dormitories and shot abrilliant beam across campusto a detector in an instrumentlab at the Statewide AirPollution Research Center. Thecampus police and studentswondered what the heck wasgoing on – another Star Wars?Actually it was “Smog Wars.”Using a unique spectroscopicdevice, invented by ourGerman colleagues, we

discovered, andmeasured, anew airpollutant in ourambient atmos-phere, thenitrate radical,NO2. Today it is recognized asa key species, chemically andtoxicologically, in local,regional and global – pristineand polluted – airenvironment.”James N. Pitts Jr. (Faculty1954-1988)

Pioneer Remembrances

Congratulations to UCR’s 50th Graduating Class - The Class of 2004!

The achievement of a UC degree represents the culmination of years of hard work andsacrifice for UC Riverside’s graduates and their proud families. On June 12 and 13, the faculty,staff, and alumni of the University will join with our newest alumni at UC Riverside’s 50th

Commencement to celebrate this important milestone for the Class of 2004.Alumni, parents and friends of the University are invited to join in the festivities by volun-

teering to assist at Commencement. There are many fun ways for volunteers to participatesuch as registering the graduates, assisting with lineup and the procession, sellingcommencement program books, and greeting and assisting guests. If you are available toparticipate in this fun and inspiring event, please contact Christina Youhas atchristina.youhas@ucr.edu or call (909) 787-3144. For more information aboutCommencement visit our Web site at: www.commencement.ucr.edu.

Ceremony ScheduleSaturday, June 12, 20048 a.m. College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences I (Commons Lawn)

Bachelor’s degree candidates majoring in Business Administration

1 p.m. Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (Student Recreation Center)Bachelor’s degree candidates

6 p.m. College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences II (Commons Lawn)Bachelor’s degrees in majors from A through L (Except Human Development)

Sunday, June 13, 20048 a.m. College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (Commons Lawn)

Bachelor’s degree candidates

1 p.m. Graduate Division and Teacher Education Program (Student Recreation Center)All advanced degree candidates: PhD, MA, MBA, MEd, MFA, MS Teacher Credential candidates

6 p.m. College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences III (Commons Lawn)Bachelor’s degrees in majors from M through W (plus Human Development)

Travel the Globe and Expand your Horizons

UCR alumni and friendsare invited to join the UCRAlumni Association for aneducational and travelexperience to the Italianregion of Umbria.

The beautiful townof Orvieto will serveas the base for theAlumni CampusAbroad in Italy—theCultural Season. Thisjourney was designedto provide a variety ofcultural enrichmentand learning experi-ences. Participants willhave the opportunity

to visit the treasures of theVatican and tour thehighlights of Imperial Rome,visit the Renaissance Capitalof Florence, and enjoy a

walking tour of Perugia andAssisi.

The Alumni CampusAbroad in Italy—the CulturalSeason is scheduled forDecember 6-14, 2004 and ispriced at $2,295 with roundtrip air transportation fromLos Angeles or San Franciscoand round trip airporttransfer from Rome toOrvieto. A land-only programis available for $1,695. Bothpackages include hotelaccommodations for sevennights, three meals each dayduring the program, all

excursions listed on theprogram itinerary, infor-mative educational programs,and the services of an experi-enced campus director.

Tour participants must bemembers of the UCR AlumniAssociation. Each membermay bring a spouse andchildren under 18 or oneguest. Contact the AlumniAssociation to request abrochure or to be placed onthe Association’s travel list.

Los Angeles Chapter AnnualHollywood Bowl Outing

UCR alumni and friendsare invited to join the LosAngeles Chapter of the UCRAlumni Association at theirannual Hollywood Bowlouting on Saturday, Aug. 21,2004. The program for theevening will be John Mauceriand the Hollywood BowlOrchestra. From old favoritesto new hits to classic songs,there truly will be somethingfor everyone at this first-timeevent! Produced in cooper-ation with The Walt DisneyCompany.

The chapter has reserved apicnic area so bring yourfamily and your own picnicfor some great fellowship

prior to the concert. Seatscloser to stage than in yearspast have been reserved forthis special evening. Thisconcert will sell out fast sodon’t delay reserve your seatstoday! Tickets are $32 forAlumni Association Membersand $36 for non-members.The deadline for reservationsand payment is Friday, July 2,2004. For more informationor to make reservationscontact the UCR AlumniAssociation.

June

12-13 Commencement 2004, all day, CommonsLawn and Student Recreation Center.

16UC Alumni Night at the Opera; LaBohème; Tickets start at $55. For moreinformation or to purchase tickets go towww.sfopera.com/aauc

August

21L.A. Alumni Chapter AnnualHollywood Bowl Outing“The Great American Concert with Fireworks- Walt Disney: 75 Years of Music”Tickets $32 for Alumni Association membersand $36 for non-members.

UCR Retirees’ AssociationSchedule of EventsJune 2004 through August 2004.

June 18, UCR Retirees’ Luncheon; 11:30-1:00; For reservations & information, contactBetty Morton (909) 689-4381 ore-mail: themortons@aol.com

UCR Retirees’ Association. InvestmentClub,1 p.m., Human Resources EmployeeDevelopment Center, UCR. Cost: $100 initialfee, $25 monthly.Information contact: Sal Martino, (714) 854-0220 or salm@exo.comMeetings: July 7, Aug. 4

UCR Retirees’ Association. Bridge Club,11:30 a.m.; Elks Club, 6166 Brockton Ave.,Riverside. Cost: Lunch purchase.Information: Marti Orth, (909) 242-5297or mbtime@prodigy.netMeetings: June 21, July 19, Aug. 16

UCR Retirees’ Association. ComputerWorkshop, 1 p.m., Room 122, ScienceLibrary, UCR. Cost: Free.Information: Sal Martino (714) 854-0220or salm@exo.comMeetings: June 17, July 15, Aug. 19

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Alumni and Constituent Relations Calendar

How to contact theUCR Alumni Association

Web site: www.alumni.ucr.eduE-mail: ucralum@citrus.ucr.eduPhone: (909) 787-4511 or (800)426-ALUM (2586)

Alumni ChaptersSchedule Events

Who is currently servingas the California AssemblyMember for the 40thDistrict?

Lloyd Levine ’92 B.A.

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50s’57 William Finch is a

retired nuclear physicist andsystems engineer. He ispresently serving the towns ofNewport, Middletown andPortsmouth, Rhode Island, as aprivate tutor in all levels ofmath, physics, chemistry,biology and Latin. William isalso a priest in the OrthodoxCatholic Church of America.He serves in the ministry to theelderly, sick and dying. He isalso able to perform marriages,baptisms, and funerals. His son,Steven, is a manager in SanDiego, for Intuit. Whileattending UCR, William wasthe founder of The NewmanClub at Watkins House.

’55 Charles Young hasaccepted the position ofpresident of the QatarFoundation for Education,Science and CommunityDevelopment, a private, non-profit chartered organization

founded in 1995 aiming todevelop and utilize humanpotential through a network ofCenters and a unique EducationCity, with branch campuses ofsome of the world’s leadinguniversities. Chuck will haveresponsibility for all of theprograms run directly by theFoundation, which include theQatar Academy, the LearningCenter, the Academic BridgeProgram, the Qatar DiabetesAssociation and the SocialDevelopment Center. He will alsohave responsibility for coordi-nating the relationships with theRand Corporation which operatesa Public Policy Center under theauspices of the Foundation andwith several American universitieswhich operate schools or collegeson the Foundation’s EducationCity campus by contract with QF.He and his wife Judy are movingto the Middle East for the next 2-3 years.

70s’70 Thomas Upton and his

wife, Christine Upton (’72), areboth teachers with NuviewUnion School District and havebeen with the district for over 20years.

’71 Pamela Clute(’78 M.A., ’82Ph.D.) received theNational ScienceFoundationPresidential awardfor Excellence inScience, Mathematics, andEngineering mentoring. Theaward reflects academic meritand political appreciation. Pamand the 19 other recipients metwith the President and First Ladyat a special ceremony. Shereceived the award for projectCONNECT, a mentoringnetwork which evolved from asymbiotic relationship betweenfour established school-university research projects inmathematics education. Unifiedby the goal of quality mathe-matics education for all, collec-tively these projects provideacademic, financial, andmentoring support to underrep-resented populations for pre-service education, professionaldevelopment and studentmastery ... PatriciaSanty is aWashtenaw Countystaff psychiatrist andclinical professor atthe University ofMichigan’spsychiatry department. Sincemoving to Ann Arbor from Texaswith her husband and herdaughter, Patricia has beenoverseeing the University ofMichigan’s medical studentrotations through the county’scommunity mental healthprogram and working withcounty psychiatric clients.

’72 Michael Knotek (Ph.D.)was inducted to the Abraham

Lincoln High School Hall ofFame in Council Bluffs, Iowa.Michael is currently working as ascience consultant for numerousnational laboratories, the U.S.Department of Energy scienceprograms and others. In 1998 and1999, he was senior advisor forscience and technology to the U.SSecretary of Energy overseeingthe DOE National Laboratorysystem and the department’sresearch and developmentbudget. He received the U.S.Department of Energy award forsustained outstanding research insolid-state physics in 1984. Thefollowing year he received theU.S. Department of Energy awardfor outstanding scientific accom-plishment in metallurgy andceramics. In addition, he won theDOE’s distinguished associateaward in 1993 and 1996 for workin developing major nationalresearch facilities and programs.The DOE also gave him the officeof biological and environmentalresearch achievement award in1997 for development of environ-mental programs and researchfacilities. He was elected a fellowof the American Physical Societyin 1987 and his latest honor is hiselection to the rank of fellow ofthe American Association for theAdvancement of Science in 2004.Michael has authored and co-authored more than 110 articlesand papers that have beenpublished in books, documentsand scientific journals.

’73 MaryAnn (Grasso)Anderson married J. WayneAnderson of Reistertown,Maryland, on February 14 at TheHomestead Resort & Spa in HotSprings, Virginia. MaryAnn is thevice president and executivedirector of the NationalAssociation of Theatre Ownersin Washington, D.C. She was alsothe recipient of the 11th Inter-Society’s for the Enhancement ofCinema Presentation Ken MasonAward. MaryAnn is the firstwoman to receive the award thathonors an individual’s careerdevoted to exceptional service,

both within the Inter-Society andin providing cinema excellence.

’74 Thomas Gastineau is astudent of the Prem RawatFoundation. He released his firstmusical album entitled“Disguide/Delimit” in 1985,which he produced with SteveTavaglione. He is in the processof recording new music for anew CD.

’78 George M. Guess (Ph.D.)is in Romania as team leader forthe budgeting/financialmanagement team on a USAID-financed project for localgovernment reform. The workinvolves training in capitalbudgeting and assisting cities indevelopment of capitalimprovement programs. Histeam is also involved in reformsof the local governmentprocurement, internalcontrol/audit and revenuesystems. This is his first long-term assignment after workingfor Development Alternatives,Inc (DAI) of Bethesda,Maryland, since 1993 as staffdoing short-term assignments indeveloping and transitionalcountries. He will be in Romaniauntil at least April 2005.

’79 Stephen Brown is anagriculture extension agent withauthority on everything thatblooms and grows in theSouthwest Florida subtropics. Hemoved to Lee County in 1993.He received his master of sciencedegree in soil fertility and plantnutrition from the University ofFlorida in Gainesville … LeslieErganian hosts “The Soul of aHouse,” for the HallmarkChannel in a series of segmentsabout finding and expressingyour own style from the insideout … Ed Goetz was appointedassociate dean of the Hubert H.Humphrey Institute of PublicAffairs at the University ofMinnesota where he is aprofessor of urban and regionalplanning and director of theurban and regional planningprogram.

Names printed in red indicate members of the UCR Alumni Association. To update your membership, see page 45.

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80s’81 Lee Langston-Harrison

(M.A.) received the 2004Excellence in Peer ReviewService Award from theAmerican Association ofMuseums (AAM). The distin-guished national award honorsindividuals who have shownoutstanding professionaldedication and service to themuseum field through theMuseum Assessment Programand Accreditation Program. Leehas been the curator atMontpelier, home of James andDolley Madison, for six yearsand has been charged withidentifying and returning theMadison’s furniture anddecorative arts collection to theestate. Lee was the only curatorto be awarded the 2004Excellence in Peer Review.

’83 Valentin Gribkoff (Ph.D.)is the vice president of biologyfor Scion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.After a 17-year career in ionchannel drug discovery atBristol-Myers Squibb, Valentinwas a senior principal scientist inthe neuroscience drug discoverydepartment at the BMSPharmaceutical ResearchInstitute. At Scion, he is respon-sible for all of Scion’s ion channelbiology including molecular andcellular biology together withelectrophysiology and assaydevelopment for voltage- andligand- gated ion channel targets.Valentin is also an adjunctassociate professor at YaleUniversity School of Medicine.He has co-authored over 70publications in peer reviewedjournals, has 16 book and/orsymposia chapters and has manypatents in the ion channel,circadian rhythm and otherneuroscience areas ... Jan(Hebeler) Opdyke was selectedin January as director of TheMission Initiative: Joining Hearts& Hands, a national campaign ofthe Presbyterian Church (USA)

to raise $40 million for newchurch development and globalmission. Jan previously served asinterim director and now lives inRedlands, Calif.

’85 Nancy (Wofford) Atkissonwent back to school in 2000 andis currently a graphic artist. Sheis still using photography buthad to relearn the newtechnology. She recentlyremarried and lives in theMillard area of Nebraska.

’87 DanielleCagan is theprincipal of CaganCommunications, aprovider of strategicCommunicationsand public relationsoutreach.

90s’90 Jo Kim is watching her

little boy grow and continues tosurf and play hockey. Shecomments, “it’s an incrediblelife.”

’92 Aaronand Leslie(Chou ’92)Bushongproudlyannounce thebirth of theirdaughter, Allison Kate Bushong,born March 7, 2004. Sheweighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. andmeasured 19 inches in length… Rosita (Ehsan) Hamiditaught high school mathematicsfor seven years. She will bechanging careers as she beginsdental school at the Universityof Texas-Houston DentalBranch in August 2004. She is amother of two children, ages 3and 5 … Christina He (M.S.,’96 Ph.D.) is the vice presidentof asset/liability managementand manages the asset/liabilityactivities for the institutionalproducts division of Pacific LifeInsurance Company with

respect to financial markets andrisk analysis. She started hercareer with Pacific Life in 1998as an actuarial analyst. In 2001,she was appointed director ofasset/liability management.Christina is a fellow in theSociety of Actuaries … LloydLevine isCaliforniaAssembly’smajority whip, thesecond mostpowerful positionin the Assembly.He represents the40th Assembly District … AryaMoti is an orthopedic surgeonin Brooksville, Florida. When heisn’t working at the hospital,Arya is performing orthopedicprocedures, and physicals forplayers of the Tampa Bay StormArena Football. He proudlywears the diamond-encrustedArenaBowl ring he received forworking with the Storm duringits 2003 championship season.

’93 Kristina Cassias is thelibrary implementationconsultant for InnovativeInterface Inc. She married JohnMcCullough in October 2003 inLafayette, Calif. For theirhoneymoon, they went toLondon and Paris.

’94 Joanna Dyrr marriedWilliam Wagner on Jan. 17,2004, in San Francisco, Calif.Many UCR alumni were inattendance, including Kristin(Taylor) Streett (’94) who wasthe matron of honor and JanineMiller (’94) who was anattendant. Both are sororitysisters of the bride. William isalso a UC alumnus, from theDavis campus. The coupleworks for a financial advisingcompany in Palo Alto, Calif …Darren Held and his wife,Elaine, are expecting their firstchild in June 2004 … Sandra(Weingarten) Longnecker andher husband had their first son,Tyler Kenneth, on May 23, 2003... Matthew Rochte says, “I lovemy life.” He is working as an

executive life leadership coach.He co-ran a small manufac-turing company in Milwaukeefor 7 fantastic years, and hewent on sabbatical for a yearafter he sold the company in2000.

’95 Ric Diaz (Ph.D.) is ahistory professor at NorthernState University in Aberdeen,South Dakota. He was honoredduring the St. Bernard’s HighSchool Alumni Association’sHall of Fame dinner. Ric, who isa cancer survivor, wasnominated by fellow classmateswho wanted him to be recog-nized for his ability to take whatlife has to offer and become abetter person because of it …Paul Espinas finished hisresidency training in pediatricsand will have completed serviceas chief resident of his programby June 2004 … Karin(Dykstra) Herrmann andMichael Herrmann had theirfirst child, Matthew RyanHerrmann, on Dec. 11 2003 ...Tim H. Nelson arrived homeafter a one year tour in Iraqwith the United States Army.Tim served with B- company489th Engineer Battalion in thewestern province of Al Anbarnear the cities of Ar Ramadi andAL Fallujah. His unit’s primarymissions were destruction ofCaptured Enemy Ammunitionand primary response toImprovised Explosive Devices(Roadside Bombs). Uponreturning home he was intro-duced to his son, Jonathan, whowas born June 5, 2003. Afterthat, the entire family, Tim,Candice and Jonathan, took avacation to Hawaii. Tim alsoaccepted an Agent position withRandstad North America ... AlGerard Sumaquial is a familypractice resident in Hoboken,NJ. He hopes to return to

Who is the mayor of SanBernardino, California?

Judith Valles ’70 M.A.

California after his medicalresidency. He would love to hearfrom old friends. Please contacthim through the AlumniAssociation.

’96 Eran Bindenbaum (M.A.)married Mary K. Chase (’01Ph.D.) in 1996. He received hisPh.D. in 2002 from UCBerkeley. Eran is currently alecturer at the School ofEconomics at University ofAdelaide in Australia … Tammy(Jackson) Duncan and ChrisDuncan welcomed their firstson, Jackson ChristopherDuncan, on March 6, 2004, at 3pounds 7 ounces … Erik Millerand Kelley (Suiter) Miller (’95)had their second child, GavinLee Miller, born on March 52004.

’97 James Henry (’99teaching credential) is a studentat the Rosalind Franklin Schoolof Medicine and Science atChicago Medical School.

00s’00 Thomas Allen and Maria

Gutierrez married on Jan.17,2004 after a year-longengagement. They met in theLothian Residence Hall in 1996.The couple currently lives in

Oceanside. Maria received hermaster’s degree in social work in2002. She is currently employedas a social worker for San DiegoCounty. Thomas works as asoftware engineer for ViaSat, acommunications companylocated in Carlsbad, Calif.

’01 Brian Boquiren is a Classof 2007 pharmacy schoolcandidate at USC. He invites hisfriends to email him atboquiren@alumni.ucr.edu.

’02 Michael S. Gonzales ispartaking in a post-baccalau-reate program in architecture atthe Los Angeles Institute ofArchitecture and Design. He wasrecently accepted to the AsianAmerican Studies Master’s ofArts Program at UCLA. Hisresearch will focus on thetransnational relationship ofFilipino and Filipino-Americansexhibited in architectural andurban space in SouthernCalifornia … Arsine Henry wasmarried in December 2003.

In Memoriam…’57 Donald Bublitz, November 2003

’59 Winston Flood, January 2004

’68 Jane Kaegi Woten, February 2004

’74 Kathleen M.Gonzales, April 2004

’80 Drew Batavia, January 2003

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“I was pleased to read “EnjoyingOur Past” in the Winter issue ofFiat Lux. I was present at the BobDylan concert on Feb. 25, 1963,highlighted in the article. Iremember it well because thecrowd lined up for the show waslistening to the heavyweightfight. Just before the doorsopened, the young Cassius Clay

knocked out Sonny Liston. BobDylan opened the show with hisantiboxing anthem “Who KilledDavy Moore?” The conflictedcrowd cheered nonetheless. Andthe concert was in the gym; thenumber of fanatical students andfaculty was much too great forThe Barn!”—- Ralph A. Sorensen ’67

“One of the high pointsof my life was the day inJune of 1979 when bothmy son, William, and Ireceived our collegedegrees from UCR. Therewas only one ceremonyin those days combining bothcolleges. So, William, sat on oneside with the College ofAgricultural & Natural Sciencesand I sat on the other side withthe College of Arts &Humanities. William began as afreshman after completing aprogram allowing high school

seniors to take onecollege class on campus.He commuted from PolyHigh on his bicycle threetimes a week for the classand in doing so fell inlove with the school. Two

years later, I enrolled as areturning student with juniorstatus. Now, here we were bothreceiving our diplomas. What athrill! Since then, by way of thebeautiful magazine Fiat Lux, wehave followed all the happeningsthere with great pride and joy.”—-Darlene Blozan ’79

Alumni Memory…

During their third year of medical school, medical students rotatethrough the many different areas of medicine. It is during this timethat they decide which area of medicine they wish to pursue.During their fourth year of medical school, they apply to variousresidency programs in their preferred area of medicine. Beforereceiving their M.D. degree at the end of their fourth year ofmedical school, medical students are notified of the residencyprogram or programs to which they have been accepted. The“Match List” provides the names of the residency programs towhich the students have been accepted.

Congratulations! Biomedical SciencesProgram Class of 2004 Matches

Name Institution Name ProgramSandra Avila (’01) White Memorial Medical Center-LA-CA Family PracticeNorana Caivano (’01) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-CA PsychiatryTony Chan (’00) Harbor-UCLA Medical Center-CA General SurgeryGary Chen (’01) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-CA Internal MedicalShirley Chi (’01) UC San Francisco-Fresno-CA Medical-Preliminary

VA Greater LA Health System-CA Physical Medical& RehabilitationKris Downing (’01) Harbor-UCLA Medical Center-CA Surgery-PreliminaryChristina Han (’01) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-CA Obstetrics-GynecologyTheodore Heyming (’01) Harbor-UCLA Medical Center-CA Emergency MedicalAtul Jain (’01) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-CA Medical-Preliminary

Stanford University Programs-CA OphthalmologyJohn Ko (’01) U Washington Affiliate Hospitals Internal MedicalDaniel Kwan (’01) University of Chicago Hospitals-IL Plastic SurgeryMary Le (’01) U Hawaii Family Practice Resident Family PracticeDerrick Lee (’01) UCLA Medical Center-CA Medical-Preliminary

UC San Francisco-CA AnesthesiologyMoon Lee (’01) UC Davis Medical Center-Sac-CA Emergency MedicalJonathan Lin (’01) Childrens Hospital-Orange-CA PediatricsLuke Liu (’01) St. Mary Medical Center-Long Beach-CA Medical-Preliminary

UC San Francisco-CA AnesthesiologyAnthony Maldonado (’ 01) Loma Linda University-CA Medical-Preliminary

Kern Medical Center-CA Emergency MedicalNirav Patel (’01) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-CA Internal MedicalMark Sedrak (’01) UCLA Medical Center-CA Neurological SurgeryAndrea Snow (’01) Harbor-UCLA Medical Center-CA Orthopaedic SurgerySanjeev Sriram (’00) UCLA Medical Center-CA PediatricsDaniel Tongbai (’01) UCLA Medical Center-CA Anesthesiology

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital-CA Medical-PreliminaryShail Vyas (’01) UCLA Medical Center-CA Orthopaedic Surgery

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lthough 3,000 milesfrom the campus, I’m

reminded of my UCR rootsfrequently. There are UCR grads allover town - in government, onCapital Hill, at the Pentagon... Inthe early days of UCR we were sofew and relationships were so closethat those ties remain strong. I’mgrateful to the UCR AlumniAssociation for nurturing theseconnections.”

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CLOSE UP

by Nina MuflehAnyone who has attended

a UCR arts event in the pastsix years may have a reasonto thank Richard Reinis.

Since 1998, UCR has beenable to showcase the talentsof its students and facultydue in a large part to thegenerous donations of theGluck Foundation. Reinis, aGluck Foundation Trustee,was the key player inbringing UCR to theFoundation’s attention.

Reinis discovered UCR in1995, because he wasinvolved in the constructionof University Village. He sawin UCR a place where theFoundation’s money couldmake a tremendous impact.Reinis also said he appre-ciated UCR’s world-classadministration, the greatrepresentation of minorities

on campus, and the talent,dedication, and creativity ofthe humanities and artsdepartment chairs.

The experiment resulted inquick results. “The programsat UCR have paid offbecause they capture theessence of Gluck,” Reinissaid, which is to allow thearts departments to extendtheir creativity into thebroader community. Gluckfunds two similar artsprograms at University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles andJulliard School in New York.

UCR was the first toinvolve art history, and itwas the first school toinvolve its faculty, ratherthan just students. Theprogram at UCR is alsounique because the grantwas awarded to the Collegeof Humanities, Arts and

Social Sciences, not just tothe Music Department, andthat allowed UCR to use thegrant for a wider variety ofvisual and performing arts.

Reinis, himself, does nothave a background in thearts. He studied history atPrinceton University andbusiness law at theUniversity of SouthernCalifornia Law School. Nowhe owns Krispy Kremefranchises in SouthernCalifornia. Still, he feels artsprograms are necessary toreach out to the communityand encourage youngpeople to pursue the arts.

The grants awarded bythe Gluck Foundationextend for three-yearperiods, and have so farbeen awarded to UCR twicesince 1996. The perfor-mances are held at schools

and retirement homes in theInland Empire, with targetpopulations such asstudents, the elderly, thedisabled, neighborhoodethnic groups, and youthgroups.

Reinis has attended manyevents over the years andsaid that he enjoys themtremendously. One of themost memorable experi-ences he’s had was at aretirement home where theaudience, many of whomattached to breathingmachines, were still tappingtheir feet to the beat. Theperformers could see thatthey were reaching theiraudience.

“It was a great feeling tosee that because it felt like itcaptured the essence ofGluck and the foundationwas making progress inreaching out to thecommunity,” he said.

Richard Reinis at the first “Gluck Day of the Arts”