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In this issue:
The Press Room
Alumni Awards Nominations
Pioneer Class Reunion
Current Research Highlighted
Awards 
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The Press Room
Noted Higher Education Expert and Alumna Yolanda T. Moses to Join UCR
Dr. Yolanda T. Moses '75 M.A., '76 Ph.D., recognized expert on cultural change in higher education and cultural diversity and public policy issues, will join UC Riverside in mid-August as a consultant to the Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor. Moses is also a noted anthropologist who received her doctorate from UCR.   

Dr. Moses will assist UC Riverside in developing a strategic plan to build excellence in curriculum, programs, research and service by building on diversity of ideas, backgrounds and cultures. In consultation with faculty, students and administrators, she will develop and implement a plan to hire and retain a more diverse faculty and a more representative graduate student body, and will foster strategies that encourage communication and dialog between students, staff and faculty. Read the full story

Interim Dean for Graduate School of Education Named
Education Professor Sharon Duffy '79 M.A., '86 Ph.D., a specialist in the study of mental retardation, severe handicaps and special education, has been named interim dean of the Graduate School of Education. Current Dean Robert Calfee stepped down August 1. 

Duffy has worked as a research psychologist on federally funded mental retardation and special education research projects under the auspices of the UCLA-UC Riverside Lanterman Research Group from 1987 until she was hired onto the UC Riverside faculty in 1990. Much of her work since joining the UC Riverside faculty has centered on family and school influences on the development of children with disabilities, mental health and mental retardation, educational technology in special education, and the educational placement of students receiving special education services.  Read the full story

Pioneer Class Reunion!
We need your help! A Pioneer Class Reunion will be held on January 24, 2004 in conjunction with the campus’ 50th Anniversary Homecoming celebration. So that we can involve everyone from those class years, please take a moment to review the 1955-1960 Lost Alumni List to see if you recognize anyone. If you have information on anyone listed please contact Bill Cole at (909) 787-4511 or (800) 426-ALUM.

Alumni Awards Nominations
As UCR approaches its 50th anniversary, you can help us celebrate this milestone occasion by nominating a graduate for the University’s highest alumni honor. Each year since 1986, the UCR Alumni Association has proudly recognized alumni who have distinguished themselves through personal, professional, or community achievement. 

We invite you to nominate a graduate who has made an important impact in the lives of others. Alumni, friends, former award recipients, professional colleagues and members of the University community are encouraged to submit award nominations. Check the UCR Alumni Association Web site for nomination criteria and a downloadable nomination form. The last day to submit nominations for the 2004 Alumni Awards of Distinction is Friday, October 31. The recipients of the awards will be honored at the 18th Annual Alumni Awards of Distinction Banquet, on Friday, January 23, 2004 in conjunction with Homecoming activities. 

Current Research Highlighted
Glaciers in California!
Small glaciers once existed in southernmost California, near Los Angeles, during the last glacial period and in the early part of the present interglacial.  Lewis Owen, associate professor of geology in the department of earth sciences at UC Riverside, reports these findings in the August issue of Geology in a paper entitled “Extreme southwestern margin of Late Quaternary glaciation in North America: timing and controls.” The work has implications for reconstructing past climate to aid our understanding of future climate change.   Read the full story

Awards
Margaret Mooney is Recipient of Prestigious Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award
Margaret Mooney, head of the Government Publications Department at the UCR Libraries, is a recipient of the prestigious American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award for 2003. 

The Hoduski Award recognizes a documents librarian who has made significant contributions to the field of state, international, local, or federal documents. The award honors those whose contributions have benefited the individual’s institution as well as the profession.  Read the full story