HONORS

Producer Barbara Boyle has been named chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. Boyle, who was named Alumna of the Year in 1987 by the School of Law, was most recently president of Valhalla Motion Pictures. During her distinguished career, Boyle has produced several feature films, including “Phenomenon,” one of the 10 top-grossing pictures in 1996.... University of California President Richard C. Atkinson received the National Science Foundation’s 2003 Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime contributions to the nation in science and technology. He will receive the award from the National Science Board at a May 21 awards dinner at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. Atkinson is the 25th recipient of the award since its inception in 1980.... School of Law Professor Devon Carbado was honored with the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes outstanding commitment to teaching at one of three law schools — UCLA, USC and UC Davis. An affiliated faculty member with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Carbado also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association.... Social Welfare Professor Stuart Kirk received the 2003 Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award from the Council on Social Work Education. Kirk, Marjorie Crump Chair in Social Welfare, was recognized for exemplary research and scholarship in his field, as well as his dedication to teaching over the last 30 years.

GIFTS AND GRANTS

A grant was awarded to Jonsson Cancer Center scientist Timothy Solberg by the American Cancer Society. The associate professor of radiation oncology and director of medical physics will use the $796,000 Research Scholar Grant to develop technology that will compensate for the motion created by the breathing of patients receiving radiation treatments.... Stuart White, professor and section chair of oral radiology in dentistry, received for his section the gift of two pieces of equipment, a Digora PCT and a Cranextome, from Sordex Inc. Valued at $80,750, the equipment will provide a highly versatile digital system for extraoral radiography. White was also elected councilor for public policy and scientific affairs of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.

IN MEMORIAM

Russell Campbell, professor emeritus in the Department of TESL/Applied Linguistics and director of the Language Resource Program, died March 30 of colon cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.

A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Campbell first learned Spanish from his Latino co-workers at a summer job in a meatpacking house. He studied for two years at Baker University in Baldwin, Kan., where he met his future wife, Marjorie. After service in the Navy, Campbell transferred to Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kan., and majored in Spanish. He worked as a high school Spanish teacher before going abroad during the 1950s, developing English training programs for the United States Information Agency in Argentina and Costa Rica.

Campbell joined the UCLA faculty in 1964, teaching applied linguistics and training students to become teachers of English as a second language. He also was the first chairman of the Teaching English as a Second Language Department and introduced courses in Hindi, Thai, Tagalog and Vietnamese. He served as director of the university’s Language Resource Program and its Center for Language Education and Research.

Campbell was best known as the visionary behind “immersion education,” in which elementary school children receive all their instruction from teachers who speak only Spanish to them. He persuaded the Culver City Unified School District to offer the first full Spanish immersion program in U.S. schools in 1971. Now in its 32nd year, the program has inspired scores of schools around the country to embrace the immersion approach.

After launching immersion education in the U.S., Campbell resumed his international work. He lived in Cairo for two years during the early 1970s, helping to design a master’s program for English language teachers at the American University. Over the years, he worked in several other countries, including Peru, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Taiwan, Japan, and led a UCLA delegation to China in 1980....

Jesse Dukeminier, professor emeritus in the School of Law and a leading legal scholar, author and teacher of property law for the last 40 years, died April 20 at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 78.

Dukeminier was a highly esteemed and beloved professor who devoted his professional life to the simplification and rationalization of the law of property. His casebooks, “Property” and “Wills, Trusts, and Estates” are the most widely used books in their field in the United States. His other book, “Gilbert’s Summary of Property” continues to be popular, and his numerous articles have had a significant impact in the field.

Born in West Point, Miss., Dukeminier received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1948 and a J.D. from Yale in 1951. After law school he practiced law with a Wall Street firm and then taught at the Harvard and University of Chicago law schools. He loved the visual arts and opera, and was a generous supporter of both. As a World War II veteran who was severely wounded, he rejected all violence. According to Professor Emeritus William Warren, “He wouldn’t even go to a movie if it had violence in it.”

Although he had never taught the graduating class of 2003, Dukeminier was honored by the students with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Teaching because of his extraordinary contribution to the teaching of property law. Early in his teaching career, he was the first UCLA law faculty member to receive a University Distinguished Teaching Award. Dukeminier was also honored with the School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching and was elected Professor of the Year by two graduating classes, most recently in 1992....

Georges Sabagh, professor emeritus of sociology and past director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, died on Nov. 14, 2002.

Born in Baghdad, Sabagh grew up in Paris and, after studying briefly in England, came to the U.S. to advance his education. He received A.B. and M.A. degrees in economics in the early 1940s and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1952, all from UC Berkeley. Before coming to UCLA in 1964, he taught at Princeton, the University of Washington and USC. At UCLA, Sabagh served as chair of the Sociology Department from 1969 to 1972 and as director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1983 to 1994. His research covered a wide range of topics, including the sociology and demography of Middle Eastern countries, migration and economic development in North Africa and the adaptation of Iranians in Los Angeles.

He was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and numerous major research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, and the Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon and Haynes foundations. A renowned social demographer, he published articles in major sociology and demography journals. He was also a pioneer of Middle Eastern American Studies, a field that has gained prominence since Sept. 11.