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FINAL COUNT

The results of the 2004 Academic Senate elections are in. The Senate’s new vice chair/chair-elect is Adrienne Lavine, professor of mechanical engineering. Since 1990, Lavine has served on a number of key Senate committees. Elected to the Committee on Committees, which devotes most of its time to staffing the 22 standing Senate committees, were Antonio Quicoli, professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Victoria Marks, professor of world arts and cultures; Ajit Mal, professor of engineering; Hany Elsaleh, assistant professor of radiation oncology; and Elisabeth Le Guin, assistant professor of musicology.

RESEARCH LECTURESHIP

The Academic Senate has selected two Faculty Research Lecturers for 2004-05. They are H. Ronald Kaback, professor of physiology, microbiology and molecular genetics and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Carroll B. Johnson, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, who is regarded as North America’s greatest living scholar of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Kaback is internationally known for his discovery of how lactose is transported across the membranes that form cell boundary surfaces.

NEW LEADERSHIP

Staff Assembly recently announced the results of an election for the 2004-05 Executive Board. The new board will include President Hassan Ghamlouch of Business and Administrative Services (BAS); President-Elect Doug Padley of Campus Human Resources; Vice President of Events Samantha Chan of BAS; Vice President of Information Systems Dorothy Fletcher of the Institute of the Environment (IoE); Vice President of Outreach Shelley Brown of Corporate Financial Services; Vice President of Programs Sarah Gamble of Communications Technology Services; Historian/Secretary Gena Perrine of the Chancellor’s Office; Treasurer Evelyn Leon of IoE; and Immediate Past President Susan Corley of the Anderson School.

AND THE WINNERS ARE ...

The staff of UCLA Today wants to thank everyone who took the time to complete our readership survey. We are processing the responses and look forward to using the results to inform our planning for the coming academic year. Here are the five winners of our drawing: Maria Diaz, administrative assistant, Department of Psychology; Gay Kurahashi, UCOP travel counselor, UCLA Travel Center; MyMy Lu, administrative assistant, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education; David MacGill, programmer analyst II, UCLA Biomedical Library; and Jie Ma, postdoctoral researcher, physiological science. Each will receive a $50 gift certificate to the UCLA Store.