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VOL. 24. NO.3 OCTOBER 7, 2003

NAMES AND FACES

HATS OFF

David Roussève has been named chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures (WAC). A choreographer, writer, director, dancer and actor, Roussève joined the WAC faculty in 1996. He succeeds WAC Professor Peter Nabokov, who served as acting chair for 2002-03 while former WAC chair Christopher Waterman served as acting dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture. Waterman became dean last June.... The UCLA Medical Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have appointed Priscilla Figueroa as medical director of the Transfusion Medicine Service. Figueroa previously served as co-director of Transfusion Medicine.... Pat Payne, administrative specialist in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, won the Taos Poetry Circus World Heavyweight Championship for the second year in a row. She is the third woman to take the championship and is the second woman to retain the title for two years.

APPLAUSE

Johannes Czernin, molecular and medical pharmacology associate professor and director of nuclear medicine, and Benjamin Halpern, visiting scholar, received the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s 2003 Image of the Year award. Their work was chosen from all presented research as an example of technological improvements in the quality of whole-body scans. The winning scan can be seen at www.snm.org/am_2003/am_pr_062303_1.cfm.... To thank him for his ongoing support of Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox was honored with the first-ever “Special Friend of Mattel Children’s Hospital” award during the fourth annual Party on the Pier fund-raising event in Santa Monica, which raised more than $540,000 for the hospital.... The Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media, based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has awarded its fellowship for 2003-04 to Douglas Kellner, holder of the Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education. His work focuses on the disciplines of cultural studies and the philosophy of education and the relationships among technology, education and society.

CONGRATS

UCLA’s Center for Intercultural Performance has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Intercultural Public Private Fellows Program, and a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The funds will enable the center to offer the UCLA/Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Programs in 2004 and 2006.... UCLA’s Center for Astrobiology has been awarded $5 million of additional research support over five years by NASA for its project “From Stars to Genes: An Integrated Study of the Prospects for Life in the Cosmos.” ... The UCLA Center on Aging raised more than $330,000 during its seventh Annual ICON Award event to honor this year’s recipients, astronaut Col. Buzz Aldrin and philanthropist S. Jerome Tamkin, who were selected for their contributions to society and active lives that exemplify the center’s motto: “living better longer.”