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NAMES AND FACES

APPLAUSE

Academic Senate Chair Kathleen L. Komar, professor of comparative literature and German, became president of the American Comparative Literature Association at the organization’s national conference in March. Komar, who had been vice president of the organization, will serve two years. The association is the professional organization for scholars of comparative literature in the United States, but also includes members from abroad.... Kuo-Nan Liou, professor of atmospheric sciences, has been elected a member of the Academia Sinica (the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiwan), in the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division. He was one of 17 new members.... The UCLA Alumni Association has selected two graduate students and three seniors as recipients of the 2005 UCLA Awards, to be presented at a ceremony May 15 at Covel Commons. The outstanding graduate students are Rita Wadhwani, a neonatal intensive-care nurse who will receive her master’s degree in nursing this June, and Manisha Sisodia, a fourth-year dental student who will be awarded her D.D.S. degree. Among the seniors receiving awards are Molly Crockett, a psychobiology student, Jennifer Lauren Lee, an English major, and Francine Maigue, who graduated this winter with a major in world arts and cultures.... Dorothy McGarry, retired head of the Cataloging Division of the Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries, is the recipient of the 2005 Margaret Mann Citation presented by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, American Library Association. A $2,000 scholarship will be donated in her honor to the library school of her choice.

ACCLAMATIONS

Leonard Apt, professor of ophthalmology and founding director of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, was honored at the annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology. Edwin M. Stone, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, delivered the Leonard Apt Honorary Lecture titled “Practical Aspects of Genetic Testing for Inherited Eye Disease.” The Apt Lecture is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics Ophthalmology Section.... Steven E. Jacobsen, a plant biologist whose research on a weed has led to new understanding of an important mechanism for regulating gene expression in developing organisms, has been named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, he is one of the nation’s 43 most promising scientists named by the institute.

IN MEMORIAM

A celebration of the life of Norman P. Miller, founding director of the UCLA Office of Cultural and Recreational Affairs and a vice chancellor of Student Affairs, will be held April 19 from 4-6 p.m. at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. The establishment of the center nearly 40 years ago was due to his leadership. To RSVP, call (310) 206-1753 or e-mail kwaldron@saonet.ucla.edu. Miller died Sept. 7 last year.