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NEWSLETTER October 2016

Emeriti Awards 2016

he outstanding service and scholarly achievements of UC’s emeriti (post retirement) have earned recognition through many major awards. For the newsletter to name them all is not possible, but we decided to devote this issue to emeriti who have received awards in 2016.

Possibly the premier UC emeriti award is the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, named after its donor, UCLA Professor of Sociology, Constantine Panunzio, who is also acknowledged as the architect of the UC Retirement System. The award he founded is specifically for faculty achievements since retirement in the humanities or social sciences. With great pleasure, we extend sincere congratulations to the 2016 recipients of the Panunzio award, Isao Fujimoto, UC Davis, and Peter Kenez, UC Santa Cruz. They are the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Panunzio awardees. Also, we are pleased to provide a brief biographical summary of each of the awardees, and we thank them for the opportunity to include in this newsletter their personal commentaries on their careers, interests, and accomplishments.

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Isao Fujimoto, Senior LecturerEmeritus, Community DevelopmentandAsianAmericanStudies,UCDavis.IsaoFujimoto joinedtheUCDavisfacultyin1967as the founding member of the CommunityDevelopment program, which has become animportantprogramforthecampusandthecentralvalleyregionofCalifornia.Hewasalsothefounderof the Asian American Studies program andcontinuestobeamajorcontributortotheprogram.Heretiredin1994,buthiseducationalserviceandacademic work has continued unabated, as notedby the Panunzio selection committee which citedthree long-term endeavors among his manyachievements: his partnership with the RuralDevelopment Leadership Network, his facilitationof the Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship,andhisSummerAbroadcourseinKyoto,Japan.In the words of Helene Dillard, a colleague anddean of the College of Agricultural andEnvironmental Sciences - home of the CommunityDevelopmentprogram:“ThisrecognitionisafittingtributeforhislongyearsofservicetoUC,especiallythose often forgotten or left behind” - referring tohis focus on rural development and improvededucation,livingstandards,andvocationaltools.Hehaswitnessedprofoundchangesinthecampusand the community in thepast50years.He spenthis early years at the Tule Lake CaliforniaSegregation Center (a WWII internment campholdingpeopleofJapanesedescent).Today,heisadistinguished faculty member at UC Davis and avalued contributor to increasing campusdiversity.Hehascontributedinmajorwaysto improvementin the lives of California’s minority and ruralcommunities.

AnActiveRetirement

APanunzioEssaybyDr.IsaoFujimoto

large,boldheadlineintheNicheiBeiWeeklyin 1994 announced: “ISAO FUJIMOTORETIRES –NOT!” Twenty-two years later I

am honored to have been given the PanunzioAward for the work I continued to do after myofficialretirementfromUCDavis.AsanemeritusIwas free to concentrate on three areas related tomy earlier work as a founding faculty member inthe Applied Behavioral Sciences and AsianAmericanStudiesDepartments.Afewyearsbeforeretiring,IstartedaUCSummerAbroadclasscalled“Community&EverydayLifeinJapan”atRyukoku,aBuddhistUniversityinKyoto,Japan. From 1991 to 2013 over 500 UC studentsfrom Davis, UCLA, Berkeley, Irvine and othercampuses participated. Each was paired with aRyukoko University student. As was true of myearlier classes on the Davis campus, learning wasexperiential—students did not simply sit in aclassroom. Instead, they met with a variety ofJapanese activists and organizationsworking on avariety of issues from homelessness todiscrimination against the burakumin, fromhistoricpreservationtosustainable farming. Theyalso engaged in everyday life in Kyoto, hiking tomountain top temples,attending theGionFestival,and visiting villages specializing in ceramics andother industries. Many of these students havecontinued tobe in contactwithone another, theirJapanese tutors, and me over the years, visiting,teaching in Japan,andpursuingcareers shapedbytheirexperiencesthere.It became my practice at the end of each UCSummer Abroad session, to meet with villagedevelopment trainees at the Asian Rural Institute(ARI) in Naoshiobara, Tochigi in northern Japan.The ARI provides a year’s training in agriculturaland village development to community workersfromAfrica,SouthAsiaandSouthPacific. Oneachvisit I gave talks and shared experiences oncommunity development approaches used in

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California and rural America. The latter weredrawnfrommyon-goingassociationwiththeRuralDevelopment Leadership Network (RDLN) since1985. The RDLN works with rural leaders fromminority backgrounds: Spanish-speakingcommunities in the Southwest, African Americancommunities in the Southeast and low-incomecommunitiesinAppalachiaandAlaska.

Back at home my decades-long work withimmigrant communities and farm workers inCalifornia took on a new focus. As the projectfacilitator for the James Irvine Foundation-backedCentral Valley Partnership for Citizenship (CVP)from1996 to2006, I oversaw theworkof twentyactivist community groups and 150 emergingimmigrant organizations in the 450 mile, 18-counties, stretch of the Central Valley. The CVPbrought together a coalition of immigrants, farmworkersandcommunityactivistsofdiverseethnicand national backgrounds from Asia, CentralAmerica, Europe and Africa. Immigrantorganizations from Mexico included Mixtec,Zapotec, Triqui and Chatino ethnic groups fromOaxaca state. Ethnic groups from South East Asiawhohad settled in theCentralValley included theHmong, Mien, and lowland Lao from Laos andKhmer from Cambodia. Others the CVP assistedincluded Portuguese speakers from the Azores,Russians,andLiberiansfromWestAfrica.

Most of the people in the CVP had never met ortalked with people from other ethnic andimmigrantgroups. Astheydidso,theydiscoveredtheyhadmuchincommon:poverty,discrimination,concernsaboutsafetyandtheiryouth,andadesiretohaveagreatersayintheirlivesandcommunity.In working together they created newopportunities for all of them. They also came toappreciate and respect their differences and toshare their “culturalcapital”withoneanotherandtheirsurroundingcommunities. Workingtogetherto strengthen communities has been a steadfastfocusofallmyworkatUCDavis,oncampusandoff,beforeretirementandafter.

My retirement years also allowedme to completesomething I hadhad to put asideduring the early

difficultyearsatUCDavis,namely:mydissertation.IhadbeenrecruitedtoUCDavisbeforecompletingmy Ph.D. at Cornell. I quickly became involved –and embroiled – as a scholar activist in the farmworkers, ethnic studies and other civil rightsmovements of the time. To say thatmyworkwasnot always appreciated would be anunderstatement. At one point a farm extensionagentfromaCentralValleyCountywrotethatIwasa “personanongrata” and should not come to hisarea. A year after my arrival at UC Davis theassassinationsofMartinLutherKing,Jr.andRobertKennedy rocked the country. Protests with riotsandfiresbrokeoutinoverahundredcitiesaroundthe country. In respect to what was called the“Urban Crisis,” a four-day moratorium wasdeclaredonclassestodiscusswhatUCDaviscouldoffer in the way of constructive solutions. In themidst of such upheaval and the need forconstructiveengagement,oncampusandoff, IputasidemydissertationonvillagedevelopmentinthePhilippines.Iwouldn'tpickitupagainuntilafterIretired.BythenIhadanewtopic:DynamicMosaic:The Central Valley Partnership’s Multi-EthnicCoalition on Civic Participation. I also had a newdissertationcommittee,includingthesonofonemyoriginalcommitteemembers.

There is something to be said for “defending” one’sdissertation at the end of one’s career versus at thebeginning. My work was recognized and honored notonly by the Department of Developmental Sociology(formerly Rural Sociology) but by Cornell University atgraduationwhere Iwas invited, as theoldest graduate,toleadtheprocessionandkeeptheyoungerstudentsinline.Whilemyparentswerenotabletoseemegraduate,it is because of their everyday modeling of how topersevere, how to be in community – often duringtumultuoustimesforourfamilyandcountry–thatIwasabletocompletemyPh.D.fiftyyearsafterstarting.

NowIhavetheprivilegeofseeingthelegacyofsomuchofmylife’sworkflourish.JustinthelastmonthsIhaveparticipated in the 40th year anniversaries of theDavisFood Co-op and Davis Farmers Market, two of fiveorganizationsbegunbymystudentsinmyhome.Ialsohave the good fortune of continuing to mentor youngpeople and activists around the world. Now that thedissertation is done, I have a new goal: to finish mymemoirs.


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Peter Kenez , Professor EmeritusDepartmentofHistory,UCSantaCruz

Peter Kenez has a long and notable record ofresearch, teaching and service at UC Santa Cruzhavingjoinedthenewcampusasafoundingfacultymemberin1966.HeisalsoafoundingmemberofStevenson College – the second of UCSC’s tenresidential colleges. In addition to writing andteachingRussian andmodernEuropeanhistory atUCSC throughouthis tenureatUCSC,hehasmadeother significant contributions to education andscholarship, including his role in founding theJewishStudiesProgram.HeisanativeofHungaryand survived the nazi occupation and the ensuingHolocaust.AtSantaCruz,hehastaughtcoursesandwritten on the origins of the Holocaust, and hisrecentbook(2013)onComingoftheHolocaust.ThePathfromAntisemitismtoGenocidehasbeenhighlyacclaimed. Although he retired in 2011, hecontinuestogivecoursesandseminarsonRussianand Soviet history, Soviet cinema, the rise ofcommunisminEasternEurope,andtheHolocaust.The latter is a current topic of a Coursera coursewhich, by design, has a worldwide audience. Hismost recent writing project is a new book, TheGloomyYearsofCommunism:Hungary1948-1956.

The essence of Peter Kenez’s remarkable careercannotbe capturedadequately in thebriefoutlinegiven here. But, we are grateful to him forproviding his own account of some of the eventsencompassing his career. In the following shortaccount,hebringslifetohisstory.Hisworkopensawindow to aworld thatwe are all a part of butdon’talwayssee.

RetrospectionandProspection

APanunzioEssaybyPeterKenez,UCSantaCruz

have spentmy entire, 50 year- long academicand teaching career at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz. I have been fortunate:

our University allowed me to spend time withstudentsandatthesametimegavetheopportunity

topursuevariedacademicinterests.IwashiredasahistorianofRussiaandtheSovietUnion,butwasalso able to publish on cinema, propaganda,Hungarianhistoryand,lately,abouttheHolocaust.

HowmyscholarlyinterestsintheHolocaustbeganisverymuchaSantaCruzstory.Arepresentativeofan organization came to Santa Cruz sometime inthe 1980s, I do not remember exactly when. Heoffered support not to the Campus, but toStevenson College in order to encourage us toorganize a small conference and a course on theHolocaust. In those days the colleges weremeaningful intellectual entities. Stevenson had nofacultymemberwhospecializedinthestudyoftheHolocaust. So, my friend Murray Baumgarten, ascholar of Dickens and I, a historian of the SovietUnion, decided to take the task on ourselves. InthosedaystherewerenotyetmanycoursesontheHolocaustanywhereinthecountry.Ourcoursewasoffered in an inter-disciplinarymajor that allowedustocombinetheapproachofahistorianandofascholar of literature. Gradually, I am sorry to say,UCSC,becauseoffinancialconsiderations,becamealess innovative institution, and the college’sindependent major was closed down. What werewe to do? My inventive friend came up with theidea that he will offer a literature course on theHolocaustandIahistorycourse,supportedbyourrespective departments, but the two classes willactually meet at the same time in the sameclassroom.Sincethenwehavetaughtthiscourseineveryotheryear,attractingbetweenthreeandfourhundredstudentsoneachoccasion.

After my retirement in 2010, my lectures for thiscoursebecamethebasisofmylastbook,Comingofthe Holocaust, published by Cambridge UniversityPress in 2013. It has beenmy custom to basemybooks on my lectures, rather than the other wayaround.OurHolocaustcoursecontinuestoexist. Itwasthefirstcoursethatourcampus,inagreementwithCoursera,putonlineandnowitisavailabletotens of thousands of peoplewho are interested inthesubjectmatter.

As a 73 year-old I retired withmixed emotions. Iwasnotcertain that Iwantedaradicalbreakwith

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mypreviousscholarly life.So far Ihavesucceededinavoidingsuchabreak. Ihavebeenteachingonecourse a year, and have been able to pursue myscholarly interests. In preparing my book on theHolocaust I became interested in modern Jewishsocialhistoryandmanagedtowritearticlesonthistopic.

My current project is a continuation of a previousworkonmodernHungarianhistory. Iamplanningto write on the background of the HungarianRevolutionof1956. I amparticularly interested inthecharacterandideologyoftheCommunistchiefsas theywerewatching the collapseof thepoliticalsystemthattheyhadconstructed.

In my long life I have received many honors, butnonemademehappierthanthePanunzioaward.IwelcometherecognitionthatIamstillaproductivescholar. I am humbled by being placed in thedistinguishedcompanyofthepreviousrecipients.

LetterfromtheChairRichardAttiyeh,UCSanDiego

Since becoming Chair ofCUCEA on July 1, I havebecome more deeply awareof the many issues andchallenges that confront theUniversity of California.From the perspective of amember of the EmeritiAssociation, the changes inourretirementsystemareofparticular concern in termsoftheeffectonfutureemeriti.

In the April 2016 CUCEA Newsletter, RogerAnderson provided a thoughtful analysis of theproblems that UC employees face in planning fortheir eventual retirement in the current financialenvironment.ThereisalsotheimpactitmayhaveontheabilityofUCtocontinuetoattractexcellentnewfaculty.

When I was my department’s chair in the mid-1970’s,ourretirementsystemplayedanimportantrole in the recruitment process, particularlybecause the UC salary scale was not competitivewith most of the more prestigious privateuniversities. Inthoseyears,UC’sexcellentpensionplan clearly contributed to my department’ssuccess in attracting quality faculty, including twofuture Nobel Prize winners. Although the newsystem may be the best that UC can do in thecurrentbudgetaryenvironment, it is important, asbudgetarycircumstancesevolve,thatwenotletthepowers-that-be forget the key role that a reallygood retirement system can play in the facultyrecruitmentprocess.

At our last CUCEAmeeting, a by-law revisionwasapproved that will affect future campus duesobligations to CUCEA. Beginning this academicyear, each campus’s dues will be based on thenumber of its emeriti rather than the number ofmembers in its Emeriti Association. CUCEATreasurer, Bill Parker, will present a proposedbudget for approval at theOctobermeeting. Thatbudgetandthecurrentnumberofemeritioneachcampuswilldeterminewhatthenewcampusdueswill be. Inevitably, dues will increase for somecampuses and decrease for others. Although thiswillnotbegoodnewsforthecampusesthatfaceadues increase, the result will be more equitablegiven thatCUCEAservesall emeriti,not just thosewhohavejoinedtheircampusassociation.

We have discussed ways to reduce costs bychangingthewaywescheduleourmeetings.Oneideawastohaveallthemeetingsononeday,therebypotentiallysavingonhotelcosts.Sofar,thatmodelhasn’tcaughton.Therecentformathasbeenforonecounciltomeetintheafternoonofthefirst day, the two councils (CUCEA andCUCRA) to


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meetjointly in themorningof thesecondday,andthe other council to meet in the afternoon of thesecond day. This allows some campusrepresentatives of the council to avoid hotelexpenses.TheformatforthisFall’smeetingsallowsrepresentativesfrombothcouncilstoconveneoverdinner and avoid rush-hour travel. The cost-savingsareminimal,butmyquestionis:Shouldn’t we choose a format that works betterevenifitisalittlemoreexpensive?Finally,all thecampusassociationpresidentshavebeen asked to reportwhat they have done to callattention to the impressive “Eleventh Campus”report. John Vohs will be leading a discussion ofthisatourupcomingmeeting.

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MoreontheVirtualEleventhCampus

TheImportanceofCommunication

UCEA’smostrecentsurveyofUCemeritiactivitiesinthethree-yearperiod2012-2015culminatedinareportbysurvey-director

JohnVohs(UCD)thatdocumentsanimpressiveamountofUniversity-relatedworkbyUCfacultyduringretirement(seeAprilissueathttp://cucea.ucsd.edu/reports/newsletters.shtml)Moreover, the report suggests that the extent ofthese activities amount to a virtual eleventh UCcampus.

Reading this report should quickly dispel anylingering perception that emeriti offer little to theUniversityduring retirement. Besides theemeriti,this message needs to be heard by universityadministrators and active faculty, if only to justifysome level of accommodation of emeriti and theirworkbythehomecampus.

Unfortunately, CUCEA has limited infrastructureand resources to communicate broadly to theuniversitycommunityonemeritiactivities,ortheir

value to the university. Although the CUCEAwebsite and newsletter are communicationresourcesinthepublicdomain,theyarenotwidelyaccessed.None-the-less,thedecisiontodevotethisissue of the CUCEA newsletter to emeriti awardswasmadetocommunicatesomeof the impressiveemeriti accomplishments, especially the breadthanddepthoftheirwork.

Another disadvantage of an approach wherebyemeriti communicate the value of emeriti to theuniversity is that itappears tobeself-serving.Thetopicwouldlikelyhavemorecredibilityifdeliveredby independent sources. Even so, one positiveapproach is to encourage CUCEA’s campusrepresentatives to “spread-the-word” and shareinformation on emeriti topics with their homecampus,particularlythecampusleadership.

In fact, a concerted effort by the CUCEArepresentatives is underway to distribute thesurvey report broadly on their home campuses. Itwillbeofgreatinteresttoassesscampusreactionsto the report and the suggestion that emeritiactivityamountstoavirtualeleventhcampus.

The surveywasalso recognized ina recent articletitled “Emeritus Professors Make a Case forCampuses to Tap Their Talents” by AudreyWilliams in theChronicleofHigherEducation,June03, 2016. As a result, the Chronicle, with its

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nationwidecirculation,hasgeneratedconsiderableinterest in the topic of emeriti continuing theiruniversity-relatedactivitiesinretirement.

A further promising development is therecognition the survey has received from NewDimensions -theUniversity’spremierchronicleonbenefit topics forretirees.Thevirtual realityofan“eleventhUCcampus”isdescribedinanarticlethatappearedinarecentissue.(http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/retirees/new-dimensions/August2016/Vol.33/No.3).Toourknowledge,thisisthefirsttimeNewDimensionshasacknowledgedCUCEAanditseffortsonbehalfofUCemeriti.

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AWARDSThe2016-2017EdwardA

DicksonEmeritiProfessorshipsWe congratulate the recipients of the 2016-17DicksonEmeritiProfessorshipslistedbelow.PleasenotethattheseveralrecipientsfromtheDavisandSan Francisco campuses were acknowledgedpreviouslyintheApril2016issue.

UCBerkeleyTwo emeriti have been awarded the DicksonEmeriti Professorship, John Casida and JackKirsch.

Professor EmeritusJohnCasida,Professorof Entomology andToxicology in theCollege of NaturalResources, andEmeritus Professor ofthe Graduate School, ishonored for his workonmodesofactionandmetabolism of

pesticides. The work is important for theoptimization of pesticide use, improving theirselectivity and environmental characteristics, andminimizing the hazards of exposure to humans,domesticanimals,andothernon-targetspecies.

ProfessorEmeritusJackKirsch,DepartmentofChemistryandBiochemistry,andDepartmentofMolecularBiology,isrecognizedforhiscontinuingresearchaimedatresolvingtheproblemofassigningproteinfunctionfromDNAsequences.Anotherprojectisthedevelopmentofacomputationalalgorithmabletoidentifymutationsinanenzymeofchoicethatwilldecreaseitscatalyticactivity.

UC Irvine The2016DicksonProfessorshipswereawardedtoProfessor Emeriti Sidney Golub and TimothyTackett.

ProfessorEmeritusSidneyGolub,DepartmentofMicrobiology andMolecular Genetics, UCISchool of Medicine, hascontinued his teachingand research in theSchool of Medicinefollowing retirement andalso serves as InterimDirectorof theSue&BillGrossStemCellResearchCenter. He has been oneof the leaders inproviding the campuswith mechanisms toexplore crucial ethnical issues associated withdevelopments in medicine and technology. Theprofessorship will provide him with the essentialresourcestobuildontheseefforts.


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Professor EmeritusTimothy Tackett,DepartmentofHistory,School of Humanitiesretired in 2010, after22 years at UCI. Hehasremainedanactiveresearcher and guestlecturer in retirement.His recent book, TheComingoftheTerrorinthe French Revolution,Harvard University

Press, has received considerable accolades. Thebook has stimulated his interest in the role ofrumorand the formsof “improvisednews”duringthe French Revolution. Hewill follow up on theseinterests with the support received from theDicksonProfessorship.UCLosAngeles

There are three recipients of the 2016 DicksonAward: Paul Bergman, law; Stephen D.Cederbaum, psychiatry, pediatrics, and humangenetics, and Edwin L. Cooper, Anatomy andNeurobiology.

Professor Emeritus ofLaw, Paul Bergman isrecognized as a pioneerof the law school’sinnovative clinicalcurriculum.Hecontinueshis service in advancingthe Law Schoolcurriculum. Hiscontributions reachbeyond the classroomand campus to thebroadercommunitybyofferingongoingsupporttothe Street Law Clinic which he founded. Hiscommitment to increasing diversity in the LawSchool continues, particularly in his nationallyrecognized pipeline-building initiative called theLawFellowsProgram.

Professor Stephen D.Cederbaum, ProfessorEmeritus of ofPsychiatry, Pediatrics,and Human Genetics,continues his researchon the arginase gene,focusing on inbornerrors of metabolism.He is a co-investigatoron arginine deficiencyand treatment, and ina consortia on raredisease clinical research. Since retirement he haspublished36researchpapers,9reviewpapers,andmade 27 presentations, in addition to service onadvisoryboardsandassociations.

ProfessorEmeritusEdwinL.Cooper,distinguishedprofessorfromthedepartmentsof

AnatomyandNeurobiology,continueshispioneeringworkinthefieldofcomparativeimmunology,includingEast-WestMedicine.Hecontinuesteaching,publishing,andservingoneditorial

boardsandorganizations.HisservicetotheUCLAcampusisalmostunparalleled,andhecontinuestohonorhiscolleaguesbyhisrecognitionoftheirowncontributions.

UCRiverside

TherecipientsoftheDicksonAwardfor2015-2017areemeritusprofessors,MalempatiM.RaoandLawrenceH.HarperMathematics,RogerL.Ransom,History,andRichardC.SutchandSusanB.CarterEconomics.

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UCSanDiego

Dr. Ruth Covell,Associate DeanEmeritus, UCSDSchool of Medicine,received the DicksonAward for herdedicated service tostudents and facultyand the localcommunity. Sinceretiring in 2013, she

hasremainedactivelyinvolvedasaboardmemberof the National Center of Leadership in AcademicMedicine Program (NCLAM) at UC San DiegoHealth; she helpsmatch junior facultywith seniorfacultymentorsatthestartoftheircareer;shealsomentorsundergraduatestudentsaspartof theUCSanDiegoEmeritiMentorProgram.

In the community, Covell has launched numerousinitiatives to improve access to quality healthcare.Shehelpedfoundandiscurrentlyamemberoftheboard of San Ysidro Health Centers, which nowserves more than 440,000 traditionallyunderserved patients a year. She also serves as aboard member for a number of healthcareprograms, including Epilepsy Foundation, ProjectConcern International and San Diego Border AreaHealthEducationCenter.

Professor EmeritusCharles Kennel, andEmeritus Director ofMarine Sciences atScripps Institution of

Oceanography,received the DicksonAward for hiscontinued service sinceretirement. Kennel hasmaintainedahigh level

ofengagementwiththeuniversity,partneringwithateamofclimatescientiststocreateanewMassiveOpen Online Course (MOOC) on climate changetitled“ClimateChangeinFourDimensions.”Thishas

becomeapopularcourseopentoallUCSanDiegostudents as well as anyone with access to theInternet.

Kennel also remains an active voice on issues ofclimate change and environmental sustainability,bringinglighttotheseconcernslocallyandgloballybyspeaking,advisingandpublishingnewresearch.As founder of UC San Diego’s Environment andSustainability Initiative, he currently serves as amember of the campus Sustainability SolutionsInstitute, which strives to acquire resources andorganize projects to address sustainabilitychallenges.

UCSantaCruz

ProfessorEmeritusChipLord,FilmandDigitalMedia,receivedtheawardforhisuseofanobservationalcameratomakeafilmthatisanartwork.HistwoprojectsareMiami:SinkingCity,andPhoenix:BigCarCity.

ProfessorEmeritusLewisWatts,wasrecognizedforthecontinuationofhisresearchdocumentingtherefugeecrisisinEurope.Hiscurrentprojectisaphotographicexplorationofthe“BlackPresenceinFrance.”

DistinguishedEmeritiAwards

UCBerkeley

ProfessorEmeritusDavidWakehasbeennamedtheDistinguishedEmeritusProfessorof2016-17.DavidWakeisprofessoremeritusofIntegrativeBiologyandformerdirectorandcuratorofHerpetologyatUCBerkeley’sMuseumofVertebrateZoology.Heiswellknownforhisworkonthebiologyandevolutionofthesalamanderaswellasgeneralissuesofvertebrateevolutionarybiology.Heiscommemoratedinthenamesofthe


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salamanderCryptotritonwakei(Wake’smosssalamander),theskinkgenusDavewakeum,thefroggenusWakea,andthelizardCyrtodactyluswakeorum(Wakes’gecko)–thelattertwonamedjointly

afterhimandhiswife,UCBProfessorEmeritaMarvaleeWake.

Outstanding Emeriti Awards for 2016 UC Irvine TheUCIEmeritiAssociationhonoredtwoemeritusprofessorswiththeAssociationsOutstandingEmeritiAwardfor2016,ProfessorEmeritusA.KimballRomneyandProfeesorEmeritusN.C.Vaziri.

ProfessorEmeritusA.KimballRomneyoftheDepartmentofAnthropology,UCIrvineSchoolof

SocialSciencesisadistinguishedscholarwhoproducedmajorresearchinmathematicalanthropology,resultinginhiselectiontoboththeNationalAcademyofSciencesandtheAmericanAcademyofSciences.Sinceretirement,hehaspublished43papersandmovedintoanentirelydifferentfieldofresearchassociatedwithcognitivepsychology.Hehasnowdevelopedamathematicalmodelthatexplainshowthehumaneyeseescolorandthismodelalsoallowstheprocesstobereplicatedbydigitaldevices.Thisworkhasledtomultiplepublications,themodelhasbeenpatented,anditwasthebasisofhiswinningtheInnoCentiveChallengeContest.

Professor Emeritus N.D.Vaziri of the DepartmentofPhysiology&Biophysicsin the UC Irvine School ofMedicine, is renowned forresearchon themolecularmechanisms and searchfor novel treatments ofchronic kidney disease.This work has producedmorethan100papersand

several book chapters since retirement. This post-retirement work resulted in his selection by theFacultyof1000asoneof the top2%ofpublishedpapers in Medicine and Biology in 2012 and hisselection in 2014 as UC Irvine’s ClinicalTranslational Scientist of theYear. As an emeritusfacultymember,hecontinuestomentorphysiciansin theirresearchrotationsandtomentorpost-docfellowsandjuniorfaculty.

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ResearchProfessorArthurGossard,UCSantaBarbara,hasbeenawardedtheNationalMedalofTechnology andInnovation, 2016:

Forinnovation,development,andapplicationofartificiallystructuredquantummaterialscriticaltoultrahighperformancesemiconductordevicetechnologyusedintoday’sdigitalinfrastructure.The National Medal of Technology andInnovation is an honor granted by thePresident of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have madesignificant contributions to the development ofnewand important technology. It is thehighesthonor the United States can confer to a UScitizen for achievements related totechnologicalprogress.


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The medal was created in 1980 by theUnitedStates Congress as a bipartisan effort to fostertechnological innovation and competitivenessof the United States in the international arena.The first National Medals of Technology wereissued in 1985 by then-U.S. President RonaldReagan. Among the first recipients were SteveJobs and Stephen Wozniak, founders of AppleComputer. The medal has since been renamedthe Medal of Technology and Innovation a n d i s aw a r d e d a n n u a l l y at an event at theWhite House that includes awards of therelatedNationalMedalof Science.

Arthur Gossard is Professor Emeritus of Materials,andElectricalandComputerEngineeringatUS.SantaBarbara.HejoinedthefacultyatUCSBin1987andiswellknownforhisresearchinMoleculeBeamEpitaxy(MBE) and its applications to high- performanceelectrical and optical devices (e.g. physics of low-dimensionalstructures(suchasnanomaterials).Bywayofexplanation,epitaxyisaGreek-derivedword– epi (above) and taxis (ordered manner) – meaning“arranging upon.” Thus, MBE amounts to thetechnology of arrangingmolecular beams of atoms or

moleculesonsomesurfaceunderhighlycontrolledconditionsandinahighlyprecisemanner.Thetechnicalimportanceofthisworkiseasiertoappreciatefromtherealizationthatformosttechnicalapplications in electrical and materials engineering, it is desirable, often imperative, to depositmaterials to form single crystal overlays (atomic-thin films) each in a well-defined orientation.According to UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang: Professor Gossard’s work “has led to remarkableaccomplishments that have profoundly influenced the current development of semiconductorscience and technology.Mobile phone communications, satellite reception, quantum computationandhigh-efficiencymulti-solarcellsforelectricalgenerationarejustsomeoftheexcitingfieldsthatexemplifytherichconsequencesofhiswork.”TheUCSBcampusandtheUniversitycanbejustifiablyproudofArthurGossardandtheimpactofhisground-breakingresearch.

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CUCEAOfficers2016

RichardAttiyeh(SD) Chair(2016-18)

CarolineKane(B) ChairElect(2016-18)

RogerAnderson(SC) PastChair(2014-16)

DougMorgan(SB) PastChair(2012-14)

ErnestNewbrun(SF) PastChair(2010-12)

WilliamParker(I) Treasurer(2016)

LouiseTaylor(B) Inf.Officer(2016)

MarjorieCaserio(SD) WebManager-NewsletterEditor(2016)

WilliamAshby(SB) Secretary(2016

Open Archivist,Historian

CharlesBerst(LA) CUCEAHonoraryMember

JohnVohs(D) ChairSurveyCommitteeEmeritiActivities

DanielMitchell(LA) JointBenefitsJoelDimsdale(SD) Committee(JBC)

TableofContents

PanunzioAwardsandEssays.....1-5

IsaoFujimoto:AnActiveRetirement....2-4

PeterKenez:RetrospectionandProspection...4-5

LetterfromtheChair:RichardAttiyeh...5-6

MoreontheVirtualEleventhCampus.....6-7

EmeritiAwards2016.....7-11

WisdomsinanElectionYear

WhenIwasaboyIwastoldthatanybodycouldbecomePresident;I’mbeginningtobelieveit.ClarenceDarrow

Ihavecometotheconclusionthatpoliticsistooseriousamattertobelefttothepoliticians.CharlesdeGaulle

Ioffermyopponentsabargain:iftheystoptellingliesaboutus,Iwillstoptellingthetruthaboutthem.AdlaiStevenson

Politicsisthegentleartofgettingvotesfromthepoorandcampaignfundsfromtherich,bypromisingtoprotecteachfromtheother.OscarAmeringer

Andsomeobservations:

Goodjudgmentcomesfromexperience,andalotofthatcomesfrombadjudgment.WillRogers

Whenyou’refullofbull,keepyourmouthshut.WillRogers

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