Walter
Zifkin, CEO emeritus of the William Morris Agency, has
been serving as the first Industry Fellow of the Entertainment and
Media Management Institute at the Anderson School of Management
since last fall. He has participated in several classes and seminars
and launched an advanced student leadership seminar series with
a select group of 15 full time and part time students, discussing
the real challenges of being CEO in a creative, service driven business....
Rachel Hunt was appointed the new director of child
development at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA after serving
as director of child life at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.... UCLA
Medical Center's spiritual care department recently named Rabbi
Micah Hyman as its new Jewish staff chaplain. He will provide
spiritual care for Jewish patients, families and staff, and will
coordinate volunteers who visit Jewish patients and help with the
Sabbath celebrations. Additionally, he will organize High Holy Day
services and activities.... Dentistry Professor Kathryn
Atchison has been appointed UCLA's
interim vice provost of intellectual property and industry relations.
In this new position, which reports directly to Provost Daniel Neuman,
Atchison will build productive working relationships among faculty,
industry partners and the venture capital community in order to
promote UCLA's research programs and to transfer UCLA technology
to the commercial sector for public use and benefit.
CONGRATS
Carole
Pateman, professor of political science, was presented
with the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.K. Political
Studies Association for "the breadth and depth of her contribution
to the intellectual development of political studies" at a
luncheon at the Director's Institute in London on Nov. 30.... Grace
Song has been selected as the new assistant director for
marketing and communications at the Institute of the Environment.
Formerly director of the dean's office at the Anderson School, Song
will review publications and informational materials and will update
them to reflect current programs. She will also coordinate outreach
and develop ideas
for new projects.... Kenny Burrell, ethnomusicology
professor and director of the Jazz Studies Program, received a 2005
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, the highest
honor the U.S. government bestows upon jazz musicians. A guitarist,
Burrell pioneered the guitar led trio with bass and drums in the
late 1950s and is also known as a prolific and highly regarded composer.
He has worked with such artists as Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday,
Stan Getz and Benny Goodman, and as a bandleader has recorded more
than 90 albums. He has written two books, "Jazz Guitar"
and "Jazz Guitar Solos." ... Winners of the 49th annual
Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards recognizing excellence in dramatic
writing were announced Nov. 1 by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of
the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, in a campus ceremony. Tammy
Duffy, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film
and Television, won first prize for her screenplay, "Cricket."
Two other UCLAgraduate students, Cecilia Fannon
and Julie Huffman, were among the Goldwyn winners.
Walter
Zifkin, CEO emeritus of the William Morris Agency, has
been serving as the first Industry Fellow of the Entertainment and
Media Management Institute at the Anderson School of Management
since last fall. He has participated in several classes and seminars
and launched an advanced student leadership seminar series with
a select group of 15 full time and part time students, discussing
the real challenges of being CEO in a creative, service driven business....
Rachel Hunt was appointed the new director of child
development at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA after serving
as director of child life at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.... UCLA
Medical Center's spiritual care department recently named Rabbi
Micah Hyman as its new Jewish staff chaplain. He will provide
spiritual care for Jewish patients, families and staff, and will
coordinate volunteers who visit Jewish patients and help with the
Sabbath celebrations. Additionally, he will organize High Holy Day
services and activities.... Dentistry Professor Kathryn
Atchison has been appointed 
UCLA's
interim vice provost of intellectual property and industry relations.
In this new position, which reports directly to Provost Daniel Neuman,
Atchison will build productive working relationships among faculty,
industry partners and the venture capital community in order to
promote UCLA's research programs and to transfer UCLA technology
to the commercial sector for public use and benefit.
Carole
Pateman, professor of political science, was presented
with the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.K. Political
Studies Association for "the breadth and depth of her contribution
to the intellectual development of political studies" at a
luncheon at the Director's Institute in London on Nov. 30.... Grace
Song has been selected as the new assistant director for
marketing and communications at the Institute of the Environment.
Formerly director of the dean's office at the Anderson School, Song
will review publications and informational materials and will update
them to reflect current programs. She will also coordinate outreach
and develop 
ideas
for new projects.... Kenny Burrell, ethnomusicology
professor and director of the Jazz Studies Program, received a 2005
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, the highest
honor the U.S. government bestows upon jazz musicians. A guitarist,
Burrell pioneered the guitar led trio with bass and drums in the
late 1950s and is also known as a prolific and highly regarded composer.
He has worked with such artists as Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday,
Stan Getz and Benny Goodman, and as a bandleader has recorded more
than 90 albums. He has written two books, "Jazz Guitar"
and "Jazz Guitar Solos." ... Winners of the 49th annual
Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards recognizing excellence in dramatic
writing were announced Nov. 1 by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of
the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, in a campus ceremony. Tammy
Duffy, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film
and Television, won first prize for her screenplay, "Cricket."
Two other UCLAgraduate students, Cecilia Fannon
and Julie Huffman, were among the Goldwyn winners.