Gov. Gray Davis nominated Norman J. Pattiz and Monica Lozano to the UC Board of Regents Advisory Selection Committee on Sept. 21. They still need to be confirmed by the California State Senate.
Pattiz is the founder of the nation’s largest radio network, Westwood One. He was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Cal State Fullerton, served on the Communications Board of the Associated Students of the University of California, and the Broadcast Education Association.
Lozano, of Los Angeles, is the president of LA Opinion newspaper. In the past she has been a member of the California State Board of Education as well as a trustee of University of Southern California. From 1999 to 2001, she served on the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
Supercomputer Center joins $53 million network project
UCSD, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Argonne National Laboratory are working together to create the Distributed Terascale Facility. When completed, it will be most powerful and flexible computer infrastructure dedicated to academic research.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center will be important to the $53 million project. It will use data-intensive IBM Linux clusters to help manage data used by researchers throughout the United States.
The facility will allow scientists and researchers nationwide to use the infrastructure to help with their scientific experiments.
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Quest and Myricom also partnered with the National Science Foundation in the project.
Renowned science reporter to give free lecture Oct. 17
Laurie Garrett will discuss what she calls “”a worldwide health crisis”” in a lecture that is part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series.
Garrett will speak Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Price Center Theater.
Following the lecture, Garrett will sign copies of her new book, “”The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance,”” which discusses how diseases such as AIDS and Ebola become epidemics.
Garrett is the only journalist to win the three most prestigious awards in journalism: the Pulitzer, the Peabody and the Polk.
Garrett is a health and science writer for Newsday. Her work can also be found in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and on National Public Radio.
Music society honors three UCSD music professors
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored three UCSD music professors with its annual awards.
Awards are based on composition and performance, and are distributed by an independent panel of music educators, directors and performers.
Anthony Davis, a professor of music at UCSD since 1998, was awarded for his contributions as a composer, pianist and improviser.
Rand Steiger, a faculty member since 1988, was honored for his compositions in theater, dance, film, video and concert.
Bertram Turetzky, who has been at UCSD since 1968, was honored for his work as a solo performer of the contrabass, jazz, traditional classical repertoire and the avant garde.
