Highlander Highlights :. UCR Alumni Association Newsletter

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The Press Room
Highlanders Highlighted
Football Reunion: RSVP by June 13
African Student Programs Alumni Reunion
Memberhip
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
Commencement Keynote Speakers
Travel
Lost Alumni: 1967
In Memoriam

Notable
UCR Alumni

The Press Room
UCR Chancellor named Purdue University President - Chancellor France A. Córdova was appointed president of Indiana’s Purdue University on Monday, May 7 by the Purdue board of trustees. Córdova is UCR’s seventh chancellor and started work in Riverside in July 2002... more	Wooldridge Introduced as New Men's Basketball Coach - Jim Wooldridge has been named the sixth coach in the history of the UCR Men's Basketball program and was formally introduced to the media and public in a press conference on May 3rd... more
UCR Alumna and Artist Judy Field Baker Donates 23 Original Works to Sweeney Art Gallery - The Idyllwild artist, known for her pen-and-ink drawings of Inland Empire buildings, makes her alma mater the repository for her life's work... more	UCR Business school gets leader - UCR has chosen USC's David W. Stewart as its top candidate to lead the university's business school, a post that's had three interim deans in just as many years. Stewart is currently the chair of marketing for the USC Marshall School of Business who served as deputy dean from 1999 to 2004... more
Research News
Two UCR Earth Scientists Honored with U.S. Geological Survey’s Distinguished Service Awards - Two UCR earth scientists – James Dieterich and Douglas Morton – have each received the Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Geological Survey. The award, which is the Department of the Interior’s highest honorary recognition, was presented in May... more UCR Physicist Demonstrates How Light Can Be Used to Remotely Operate Micromachines - A research team led by Umar Mohideen has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force can be changed using a beam of light, making the remote operation of micromachines a possibility ...more	New Technology Enables Astronomers to Detect Two Supermassive Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies - UCR’s Gabriela Canalizo and others have used powerful adaptive optics technology at the Keck Observatory in Hawai‘i to reveal the precise locations of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of an ongoing collision between two galaxies 300 million light-years away... more New Petroleum-Degrading Bacteria Found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles - Environmental scientists at UCR have discovered that the La Brea tar pits house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the them to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt... more

Want more news from UCR? Visit http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu

Highlanders Highlighted

Highlander Highlighted

Dr. Desdemona Cardoza ('79 M.A., '82 Ph.D.) will become California State University, Los Angeles' next provost and vice president for academic affairs effective July 1. Desdemona, a professor of psychology who joined the Cal State L.A. faculty in 1988, is currently dean of the University’s College of Natural and Social Sciences. She has authored journal articles on ethnic identity, attitudes toward immigrants, and Latinos and higher education.

Did you land your dream job? Were you honored with an award? If you have news or accomplishments you'd like to share with fellow alumni, submit it for future publication in the Class Acts section of UCR, The Magazine of UC Riverside and possibly this enewsletter. Visit www.alumni.ucr.edu/involved/update.html to submit your Class Act!

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Football Reunion - RSVP Deadline June 13!

UCR Football Reunion
June 22-23, 2007

Join us for the first-ever UCR Football Reunion and reconnect with teammates, coaches and friends.

Reunion Schedule
See Who’s Coming
Hotel Information

Don’t miss all the fun and excitement.
Send in your registration before June 13!

Contact Bill Cole for information.

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UCRAA Membership: Rates are rising!

Last Chance to become a member at these prices!

ACT NOW! Membership rates will increase after June 30, 2007

Current rate:	Current rate:	Current rate:
$35 Annual Membership	$90 X 5 years Life Installment Membership	$400 Life Membership
After June 30th: $45 Annual Membership	After June 30th: $110 X 5 years Life Installment Membership	After June 30th: $495 Life Membership
Join Now!	Join Now!	Join Now!

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African Student Programs Alumni Reunion

African Student Programs Alumni Reunion
August 17-19, 2007

Los Angeles, CA

See old friends and meet other UCR Alumni at the 1st Annual African Student Programs Reunion. Activities include games, dinner, beach BBQ, reunion party!

Click here for more information or call UCR African Student Programs at (951) 827-4576

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Outstanding Young Alumnus Award

Do you know an outstanding young alum under the age of 35 who has a significant record of career and/or civic achievement and deserves recognition? If so, why not take the time to submit a nomination. Nominations for the Alumni Awards of Distinction are accepted year-round. The 2008 Alumni Awards of Distinction will be awarded in the spring of 2008 at the 22nd Annual Alumni Awards of Distinction Banquet.

For more information, visit http://www.alumni.ucr.edu/about/young.html

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Commencement Keynote Speakers

2008 Commencement Keynote Speakers
Friday June 15th - CHASS: Bus. Admin. Mr. Swapan Nag ('86 M.B.A.) CEO - Nag, Inc. d.b.a. Engineering Systems	Sunday June 17th - CHASS 3 Dr. Yolanda Moses ('75 M.A., '76 Ph.D. in Anthropology) UCR Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution Special Asst. to the Chancellor for Excellence and Diversity Professor of Anthropology
Saturday June 16th - CHASS 1 Dr. Billy Collins ('65 M.A., '71 Ph.D. in English) Former US Poet Laureate	Sunday June 17th - BCOE & CNAS Mr. Wally Rippel Principal Power Electronics Engineer Tesla Motors
Saturday June 16th - CHASS 2 The Honorable Gloria Romero ('80 M.A., '83 Ph.D. in Psychology) Senate Majority Leader, CA State Senate	Monday June 18th - Grad Division & Teacher Education Mr. Ronald E. Neumann ('66 History, '67 M.A. Political Science) Former Ambassador of the United States to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Bahrain

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Travel

Travel the Globe and Expand Your Horizons

Ireland	09/01 thru 09/12	$3,995	Ennis, Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands, Kilkenny, Rock of Cashel, Jerpoint Abbey, and more!
China Connoisseur & Tibet	10/09 thru 10/24	$3,999	Great Wall, Forbidden City, Beijing, Terracotta Warriors in Xian, Shanghai Museum, Guilin, Tibet, Chengdu
Chianti in a Tuscan Villa	10/07 thru 10/15	$3,195	Chianti region, Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Lucca and more!

Contact the UCR Alumni Association at ucralum@ucr.edu or 951-UCR-ALUM to request a detailed brochure or to be placed on the Association’s travel list. Tour participants must be members of the UCR Alumni Association. Each member may bring a spouse and children under 18 or one guest.

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Lost Alumni : 1967

In an effort to find as many Highlanders as possible, we will be running lists of Lost Alumni in the E-news for the summer months. This month's lost alumni list is from the class of 1967.


1967: Ms. Gay Rita Adams Mr. Hikmat Abbas Al-Ani Mr. Rafael Amezquita Mr. Georgios Athanasio Andritsos Ms. Judith Anenberg Ms. Barbara Arnold Mr. Fortino Ramirez Ayala Mrs. Carol A. Batchelor Mrs. Sarabelle Boyd Ms. Patricia K. Cameron Ms. Mary Ellen R. Capeci Dr. Benjamin Llobrera Cariaso Mr. William P. Carson Mr. Aris John Christodoulou Mrs. Margot Day Ms. Susan Mary Dryer Ms. Raymonde Janet Edney Dr. Shawky Abd Abd Elaziz Ms. Carla Dee Ellis Mrs. Donna C. Fox Mr. Moya E. Garcia Mr. Mohammad Reza Ghaeni Mr. Juvenal Gonzalez Ms. Aleen J. Grabow Mr. John K. Groff, Jr. Mr. Eric Chris Gronberg Mr. Joseph A. Guthrie Mrs. Joyce H Hall Ms. Madeleine Anne Hayes Mr. Akie Higashi	Ms. Karen Helen Hudson Mr. Michael R. Hughes Mr. Johann Niklaus Huser Mrs. Rebecca Jedinak Mr. Donald J. Jendon Mrs. Andrea Fare Jones Dr. Martand S. Joshi Ms. Christine T. Kellogg Ms. Patricia F. Kelm Dr. Yoshio Kikuta Mr. Donald D. Kummer Ms. Marla Ann Larson Mrs. Marcia L. Finerman Lee Mr. Clarence Harry Lindsey Ms. Melita Clare Link Ms. Laura Mary Lockwood Dr. Charles Francis Marks Ms. Sheme Masaba Mr. John O. Mason Ms. Theodora Jean Maxwell Mr. Robert Thorne McBratney Ms. Elizabeth S. McEwan Mr. Henry B. McIntosh Mrs. Judith S. McIntosh Ms. Roberta Anne McPherrin Ms. Aurora Corona Mirkin Mrs. Anna Lucille Moore Mrs. Catherine J. Morrison Mr. Stuart Wayne Moses Mr. Chege R. Mwangi	Mr. Richard Joseph Nieze Dr. Londono Oscar Ospina Mr. Olusola Oyelewa Dr. Constantine Emmanuel Palmer Ms. Judith P. Phelan Dr. Jose Rutilio Quezada Dr. Talur Seshagiri Rao Mrs. Joyce Renner Mr. Daniel Wilhelm Roesti Dr. Thomas D. Rogers, Jr. Ms. Nora L. Roosien Mr. Arnold Joseph Ross Mr. Ronald David Schwartz Mr. Roger S. Seymour Mr. Stephen Richard Shreve Ms. Marilyn R. Sidler Mrs. Martha Smith Mrs. Jamie J. Stafford Dr. Seizo Sumida Mr. Dexter A. Thompson Mr. Mun Har Chung Tong Mr. Benny Ify A. Ufondu Mr. Pierre Georges Vuillaume Ms. Pamela Diane Walkup Ms. Ann S. Warfel Mr. John A. Wegis Mr. Anthony John Wetherell Mr. George Ferdinand Wilson

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In Memoriam

Professor Emeritus Martin Barnes

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UCR Football Reunion June 22-23, 2007

Don’t miss all the fun and excitement. Send in your registration before June 13!

Last Chance to become a member at these prices!

ACT NOW! Membership rates will increase after June 30, 2007

UCR Football Reunion
June 22-23, 2007

Don’t miss all the fun and excitement.
Send in your registration before June 13!