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THE MAGAZINE OF UC RIVERSIDE<br />
10 Ways to<br />
Find Happiness<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Research Leads You to Joy<br />
Page 8<br />
The <strong>UCR</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy:<br />
Research to Serve the Inland<br />
Community and the World<br />
Page 24<br />
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SPRING 2013 VOL.8 NO. 2
INTERIM CHANCELLOR<br />
Jane Close Conoley<br />
VICE CHANCELLOR, ADVANCEMENT<br />
Peter Hayashida<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
James Grant<br />
EDITOR<br />
Lilledeshan Bose<br />
WRITERS<br />
Vickie Chang<br />
Ted Kissell<br />
Litty Mathew<br />
Sean Nealon<br />
Phil Pitchford<br />
SENIOR DESIGNER<br />
Brad Rowe<br />
PRODUCTION MANAGER<br />
Luis Sanz<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
Alyssa Cotter<br />
Konrad Nagy<br />
Susan Straight<br />
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT<br />
Bethanie Le<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
Colin Hayes<br />
Alex Eben Meyer<br />
Mike T<strong>of</strong>anelli<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Lonnie Duka<br />
Carlos Puma<br />
Peter Phun<br />
Carrie Rosema<br />
DISTRIBUTION<br />
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DEPARTMENTS FEATURES COVER STORY<br />
THE MAGAZINE OF UC RIVERSIDE SPRING 2013 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2<br />
18<br />
Water Works<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sharon Walker talks<br />
about why her endowed chair<br />
is hugely important for<br />
her research<br />
03 | R View<br />
A message from Interim<br />
Chancellor Jane Close<br />
Conoley<br />
04 | R Space<br />
Catch a glimpse <strong>of</strong> the<br />
latest news at UC <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
#<strong>UCR</strong>grad13<br />
20<br />
La Reina<br />
An excerpt from Susan<br />
Straight’s latest novel,<br />
“Between Heaven and Here”<br />
27 | How I See It<br />
Incoming freshmen tweet<br />
and hashtag their joy upon<br />
getting accepted into <strong>UCR</strong><br />
28 | Page Turners<br />
Celebrate the Class <strong>of</strong> 2013!<br />
1 A B C D<br />
2 A B C D<br />
3 A B C D<br />
A B C D<br />
22<br />
From Mind to Market<br />
Yadong Yin’s research on<br />
nanoparticles has put<br />
color in a whole new light<br />
30 | Alumni<br />
Connection<br />
31 | Class Acts<br />
Nurse practitioner Darlene<br />
Tyler (‘82) and theater<br />
founder Wayne Scott (‘81)<br />
tell how <strong>UCR</strong> helped them<br />
find their unexpected<br />
career paths<br />
Use hashtag #<strong>UCR</strong>grad13 for your favorite <strong>UCR</strong> photos<br />
and memories on Instagram and Twitter.<br />
Feeling nostalgic? Relive graduation on commencement2013.ucr.edu!<br />
C D<br />
08<br />
10 Ways to<br />
Happiness<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> research reveals steps<br />
that can guide you along the<br />
path to joy<br />
24<br />
The School <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Policy<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> hopes to work with the<br />
Inland community to solve<br />
local and national problems<br />
36 | C Scape<br />
Don Carey (‘70), football<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficial for the National<br />
Football League<br />
Play the Game <strong>of</strong> Happiness online:<br />
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EVENTS<br />
2 | <strong>UCR</strong> Spring 2013<br />
www.artsblock.ucr.edu<br />
“Monuments <strong>of</strong> Void: Wolf Von<br />
Dem Bussche’s Photographs <strong>of</strong><br />
the Twin Towers”<br />
6.1-7.6<br />
www.artsblock.ucr.edu<br />
“Geographies <strong>of</strong> Detention”<br />
6.1-9.7<br />
www.artsblock.ucr.edu<br />
“Around the World in Forty<br />
Pictures”<br />
6.1-7.27<br />
www.music.ucr.edu<br />
Concert <strong>of</strong> Mexican Music and<br />
Dance<br />
6.6<br />
www.music.ucr.edu<br />
Music <strong>of</strong> Indonesia: <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Gamelan Ensemble<br />
6.7<br />
www.commencement.ucr.edu<br />
Commencement 2013<br />
6.14-6.17<br />
www.extension.ucr.edu<br />
Video Game Design and Content<br />
Creation — Information Session<br />
6.15<br />
www.chancellorsdinner.ucr.edu<br />
Chancellor’s Dinner<br />
10.19<br />
HAPPENINGS<br />
This exhibit looks at the recontextualization <strong>of</strong> the World Trade<br />
Center towers alongside the issues <strong>of</strong> memorialization and the<br />
meanings associated with sites and images post-9/11.<br />
Through the photos, we, as the viewers, see the towers in a<br />
different aesthetic light that forcefully defamiliarizes us with the<br />
subject.<br />
Presented on two floors <strong>of</strong> the <strong>California</strong> Museum <strong>of</strong> Photography,<br />
“Geographies <strong>of</strong> Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden<br />
Gulag” combines historical and contemporary photography, film<br />
and first-person audio interviews to examine how the naval base<br />
has been “closed” and reopened for more than a century leading<br />
up to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. These new perspectives on<br />
Guantánamo’s history as a “legal black hole” provoke discussions<br />
about the limits <strong>of</strong> democracy and the meaning <strong>of</strong> mass<br />
incarceration in a global present and future.<br />
Celebrating the CMP’s 40th anniversary, “Around the World in<br />
Forty Pictures” takes as inspiration the classic novel “Around the<br />
World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne, first published in 1873. The<br />
exhibition culls 40 pictures from the Keystone-Mast Collection<br />
(part <strong>of</strong> the CMP permanent collection) to retrace the steps <strong>of</strong><br />
Verne’s colorful characters as they circumnavigate the globe.<br />
The <strong>UCR</strong> Studio for Mexican Music and Dance features student<br />
vocals and instrumentation in Mexican ranchera-style music, with<br />
<strong>UCR</strong>’s Mariachi Mexicatl performing live with the <strong>UCR</strong> Ballet<br />
Folklorico. The ballet company will perform choreography from<br />
the Mexican regions <strong>of</strong> Michoacán and Nayarit.<br />
Experience a variety <strong>of</strong> Indonesian gamelan music from pr<strong>of</strong>ound<br />
to lighthearted and serious to sentimental. A gamelan is an<br />
ensemble <strong>of</strong> instruments that includes a set <strong>of</strong> tuned bronze<br />
gongs suspended from a carved serpentine dragon, metal-keyed<br />
instruments, xylophones and drums. The <strong>UCR</strong> Gamelan Ensemble<br />
performs traditional and contemporary Indonesian music.<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> will hold seven commencement ceremonies June 14 through<br />
17 on the Pierce Hall lawn, near the bell tower. More than 3,000<br />
students are expected to make their way across the stage during<br />
the four days <strong>of</strong> the 59th annual event.<br />
Learn about <strong>UCR</strong> Extension’s Specialized Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Program in<br />
Video Game Design and Content Creation Summer Academy. For<br />
serious participants, the full program <strong>of</strong>fers approximately 100<br />
hours <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional-level instruction. Parking is free<br />
for attendees.<br />
Save the date! The fifth annual Chancellor’s Dinner will be held<br />
on Oct. 19 at the Highlander Union Building. Enjoy the company<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong> friends, alumni, students and community members as<br />
we come together in support <strong>of</strong> our best and brightest scholars,<br />
artists, leaders and volunteers.<br />
For more on <strong>UCR</strong> events, visit www.ucr.edu/happenings
Congratulations to the Class <strong>of</strong> 2013 –<br />
the newest additions to our alumni family!<br />
A Positive<br />
Outlook for a<br />
Growing Campus<br />
The best gift any university can give to its alumni is to<br />
grow in excellence and prestige. Our graduates should<br />
be proud <strong>of</strong> their alma mater. As our alumni read<br />
through this edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>, I think they will<br />
find themselves even prouder <strong>of</strong> UC <strong>Riverside</strong> than they<br />
were on graduation day.<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> has come a long way in a very short time.<br />
Faculty research has gained significant recognition, as<br />
evidenced from the large number <strong>of</strong> awards won by<br />
faculty, increasing grant support, prestigious publications<br />
and media attention. Student applications are way up<br />
(almost 43,000 for fall 2013) while student qualifications<br />
are also improving. <strong>UCR</strong> has been ranked highly by<br />
national magazines as a best value and as a place where<br />
students contribute to community service.<br />
We are a university with a mission to be excellent,<br />
diverse, engaged and accessible. Our incoming freshman<br />
class is likely to be as diverse as in years past and to<br />
reflect greater readiness for success as university students.<br />
The relationship we have with <strong>Riverside</strong> and Inland-area<br />
communities is a model for the entire UC system. We are<br />
making a difference in the lives <strong>of</strong> citizens in our region<br />
and in our world.<br />
A clear sign <strong>of</strong> this engagement is the fall 2013<br />
opening <strong>of</strong> the <strong>UCR</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Medicine. The school is<br />
conceived from a completely different paradigm than<br />
that <strong>of</strong> other medical schools. We will prepare<br />
physicians who are committed to this region, to<br />
prevention and wellness, and to the finest in cutting-edge<br />
medicine. This is so exciting.<br />
Another sign <strong>of</strong> our commitment to engagement is the<br />
opening <strong>of</strong> our new School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy. (Read about<br />
it on page 24.) This will bring together faculty from<br />
across campus and partners from across the world to<br />
study health, population, environmental, immigration<br />
and social mobility issues. We accept the challenge <strong>of</strong><br />
translating our research into meaningful public policy.<br />
Accessibility is another matter altogether. Tuition has<br />
risen substantially since many <strong>of</strong> our readers have<br />
graduated. Although we do not anticipate another rise<br />
in tuition for a year or so, the state’s disinvestment in its<br />
educational commitments is pushing the burden <strong>of</strong><br />
university tuition and fees onto students and families.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong> remains affordable for<br />
low- and middle-income families, but we recognize that<br />
it’s a strain to take on any new debt in this tenuous<br />
economy. Don’t forget to keep telling your legislators the<br />
story <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong> and its ability to change lives and energize<br />
the economy.<br />
We remain optimistic, however, that our energetic<br />
focus on private philanthropy for student scholarships<br />
will assist many students to earn a degree with low levels<br />
<strong>of</strong> debt. Our award-winning psychologists have<br />
illustrated the power <strong>of</strong> optimism; it can be dynamic and<br />
useful, especially when paired with positive motivation<br />
and hard work.<br />
Jane Close Conoley<br />
Interim Chancellor<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Spring 2013 | 3<br />
R VIEW
R SPACE<br />
President Yud<strong>of</strong> to Step Down<br />
Mark G. Yud<strong>of</strong> is stepping down as<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong><br />
system; his five-year tenure will end<br />
on Aug. 31. “The moment comes with<br />
a mixture <strong>of</strong> emotions,” he said in a<br />
statement. “UC remains the premier<br />
public university system in the world,<br />
and I was both honored and humbled to<br />
serve as its president.”<br />
Yud<strong>of</strong> cited taxing health issues as the<br />
reason for his decision, and he plans to<br />
return to the Berkeley campus to teach<br />
law. “I will leave it to others to judge<br />
4 | <strong>UCR</strong> Spring 2013<br />
what difference my leadership made, if<br />
any, but I will say that I entered each day<br />
with a laser focus on preserving this great<br />
public treasure, not just in the present<br />
day, but for generations <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong>ns to<br />
come. And in the end, what matters most<br />
is what still remains: a vibrant public<br />
university system, the envy <strong>of</strong> the world,<br />
providing <strong>California</strong> with the beacon <strong>of</strong><br />
hope and steady infusion <strong>of</strong> new thinking<br />
that are necessary for any society to<br />
flourish.”<br />
Milestones in 2013<br />
Application Pool<br />
More than 30,000 potential freshmen<br />
were part <strong>of</strong> a record-breaking 42,178<br />
applications received by <strong>UCR</strong> during<br />
the application period for the 2013-14<br />
academic year.<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> exceeded the 40,000 mark in<br />
total applications and the 30,000 mark<br />
in freshman applications for the first time<br />
in school history. The pool <strong>of</strong> 42,178 was<br />
composed <strong>of</strong> 33,809 freshmen, a 13.2<br />
percent increase from 2012, and 8,369<br />
transfers, an 8.3 percent increase from<br />
2012.<br />
“The numbers show that <strong>UCR</strong><br />
continues to grow as a campus <strong>of</strong> choice,”<br />
said Emily Engelschall, director <strong>of</strong> undergraduate<br />
admissions.
Study Finds Link Between ‘Critical Mass’<br />
and Respectful Racial Climate<br />
Universities that maintain higher<br />
levels <strong>of</strong> “critical mass” have African-<br />
American and Latino students who are<br />
more likely to feel respected on campus.<br />
This is according to a study by William<br />
Kidder, assistant provost at <strong>UCR</strong>. The<br />
study, “Misshaping the River: Proposition<br />
209 and Lessons for the Fisher<br />
Case,” analyzed surveys from nearly<br />
10,000 African-American and Latino<br />
undergraduates.<br />
Published in the Journal <strong>of</strong> College<br />
and <strong>University</strong> Law, a peer-reviewed<br />
journal at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Notre Dame<br />
Law School, the study found that on<br />
campuses with more African-Americans<br />
in the student body, including UT Austin<br />
and <strong>UCR</strong>, between 72 percent and<br />
87 percent <strong>of</strong> African-Americans felt<br />
students <strong>of</strong> their race were respected on<br />
campus.<br />
By contrast, on campuses with fewer<br />
African-Americans in the student body,<br />
including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC<br />
San Diego, between 32 percent and<br />
71 percent <strong>of</strong> African-Americans felt<br />
respected on campus. Latino undergraduates<br />
were also more likely to feel<br />
respected on campuses where there were<br />
higher levels <strong>of</strong> diversity.<br />
The racial interactions on campus<br />
can be influential in academic success,<br />
according to Sylvia Hurtado, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
at UCLA and director <strong>of</strong> the Higher<br />
Education Research Institute. “Lower<br />
racial diversity not only results in<br />
increased reports <strong>of</strong> campus incidents<br />
but members <strong>of</strong> underrepresented groups<br />
and majority students show lower<br />
scores on college outcomes as a result <strong>of</strong><br />
negative cross-race encounters,” she said.<br />
Former <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
Mayor Heads <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Research Center<br />
Ronald O. Loveridge, the former<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> mayor who has played an active<br />
leadership role in local, regional and state<br />
government for more<br />
than 30 years, was named<br />
director <strong>of</strong> the Center for<br />
Sustainable Suburban Development<br />
at <strong>UCR</strong> in January.<br />
“The center will support,<br />
and connect, the best <strong>of</strong><br />
academic research with<br />
important policy choices<br />
for a sustainable future for<br />
this region and Southern<br />
<strong>California</strong>,” Loveridge said.<br />
Loveridge has been an<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> political science<br />
at <strong>UCR</strong> since 1965. With his retirement<br />
as mayor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Riverside</strong>, he will focus his<br />
attention at <strong>UCR</strong> on research related to the<br />
growth <strong>of</strong> suburbs, public policy, urban<br />
planning, transportation, air quality and the<br />
intersection <strong>of</strong> cities and natural lands.<br />
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<strong>UCR</strong> Has New<br />
<strong>University</strong> Librarian<br />
Steven Mandeville-Gamble, the<br />
former associate university librarian <strong>of</strong><br />
Washington <strong>University</strong> in Washington,<br />
D.C., joined <strong>UCR</strong> in March as the<br />
campus’s ninth university librarian. He<br />
replaced Ruth Jackson, who recently<br />
retired.<br />
Early on, Mandeville-Gamble<br />
impressed staff and faculty with his<br />
leadership skills and friendly, outgoing<br />
personality. But Mandeville-Gamble<br />
made an even better impression at his<br />
welcome reception, held on March 22<br />
at the Raymond L. Orbach Science<br />
Library. He presented the <strong>UCR</strong> Special<br />
Collections with a first American<br />
edition copy <strong>of</strong> Charles Darwin’s<br />
“The Expression <strong>of</strong> the Emotions in<br />
Man and Animals” from his personal<br />
collection.<br />
Published in 1873, the rare book is<br />
a classic — and a very generous gift —<br />
said Melissa Conway, head <strong>of</strong> special<br />
collections at the Rivera Library.<br />
Executive Vice Chancellor and<br />
Provost Dallas Rabenstein said<br />
Mandeville-Gamble distinguished<br />
himself with his vision, enthusiasm,<br />
depth <strong>of</strong> knowledge and<br />
commitment to<br />
creating a 21st<br />
century library. He<br />
added, “It became<br />
very clear that<br />
Steven was the one<br />
who could provide<br />
leadership for the<br />
library moving into<br />
the future.”<br />
Japanese <strong>University</strong> Expands Presence at <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Tohoku <strong>University</strong> in Sendai, Japan,<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong>’s sister city since 1957,<br />
expanded its relationship as one <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>UCR</strong>’s strongest international partners<br />
by opening the Tohoku <strong>University</strong> Center<br />
at <strong>UCR</strong> Extension in February. The<br />
center is funded by a $10 million grant<br />
that Tohoku received from the Japanese<br />
government to develop global skills for<br />
its students by expanding international<br />
educational opportunities, said Bronwyn<br />
Jenkins-Deas, associate dean <strong>of</strong> UC<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> Extension and director <strong>of</strong><br />
international education programs.<br />
Tohoku <strong>University</strong> plans to send<br />
160 students to <strong>UCR</strong> each year. The<br />
first 44 students came to <strong>UCR</strong> at the<br />
beginning <strong>of</strong> February and enrolled in<br />
three programs: environmental sciences,<br />
where students will do service-learning<br />
projects with <strong>Riverside</strong> community and<br />
government groups; economics, where<br />
they will spend five weeks learning<br />
English and a week visiting Japanese-<br />
American companies in Los Angeles;<br />
and engineering to introduce students to<br />
alternate energies, which are important<br />
for Japan to consider as it faces issues<br />
with nuclear power.<br />
The grant money also allows 20 <strong>UCR</strong><br />
students to take part in a 10-day studyabroad<br />
experience at Tohoku each year;<br />
30 Tohoku employees to go to <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Extension to learn how to set up international<br />
education programs and provide<br />
support services to students; and a<br />
part-time student exchange coordinator<br />
to be hired to facilitate the relationship<br />
between Tohoku and <strong>UCR</strong>.
<strong>UCR</strong> Nanotechnologists<br />
Help Launch New<br />
National Center Devoted<br />
to Microelectronics<br />
Roland Kawakami, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
physics and astronomy; Ludwig Bartels,<br />
a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> chemistry; and Cengiz<br />
Ozkan, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> mechanical<br />
engineering, are members <strong>of</strong> a new<br />
national research center—the Center<br />
for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces<br />
and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN)<br />
— focused on developing the next<br />
generation <strong>of</strong> microelectronics. All three<br />
are part <strong>of</strong> the Materials Science and<br />
Engineering Graduate Program at <strong>UCR</strong>.<br />
C-SPIN is aimed at developing<br />
technologies for spin-based computing<br />
and memory systems. Unlike today’s<br />
computers with their electrical charges<br />
moving across wires,<br />
the spin-based<br />
computing<br />
systems will<br />
process and<br />
store information<br />
through<br />
spin, a fundamental<br />
property<br />
<strong>of</strong> electrons. Spinbased<br />
computing<br />
can combine memory and logic at<br />
the device and circuit level, and if it is<br />
based on the hybridization <strong>of</strong> magnetic<br />
materials and semiconductors, it has the<br />
potential to create computers that are<br />
smaller, faster and more energy-efficient.<br />
Led by the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Minnesota,<br />
C-SPIN is being supported by a<br />
five-year, $28 million grant awarded by<br />
the Semiconductor Research Corp. and<br />
the Defense Advanced Research Projects<br />
Agency. Out <strong>of</strong> that grant, about $3<br />
million is allocated to <strong>UCR</strong>.<br />
A New Leader for<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Alumni Relations<br />
Following a<br />
yearlong, nationwide<br />
search, UC <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
found the new<br />
head <strong>of</strong> its Office<br />
<strong>of</strong> Alumni and<br />
Constituent Relations<br />
about 40 miles west,<br />
in the city <strong>of</strong> Irvine.<br />
Jorge E. Ancona has been appointed as<br />
the new assistant vice chancellor for Alumni<br />
and Constituent Relations and executive<br />
director <strong>of</strong> the UC <strong>Riverside</strong> Alumni<br />
Association. He has served as assistant<br />
vice chancellor for alumni relations, and<br />
executive director <strong>of</strong> the UCI Alumni<br />
Association since 2002.<br />
At <strong>UCR</strong>, Ancona will lead a staff <strong>of</strong><br />
12 full-time employees and oversee the<br />
management <strong>of</strong> hundreds <strong>of</strong> volunteers and<br />
advocates. He will also be responsible for<br />
stewardship <strong>of</strong> the Alumni Association’s<br />
endowment funds, and for further<br />
developing fundraising for the alumni<br />
association and alumni relations programs.<br />
Highlights <strong>of</strong> his career at Irvine include<br />
establishing the UCI Student Alumni<br />
Association; growing the association’s<br />
scholarship endowments from $1.5<br />
million to $4 million; and increasing the<br />
association’s assets from $3.4 million<br />
to $8 million. Under hi s leadership,<br />
the association earned 18 Council for<br />
Advancement and Support <strong>of</strong> Education<br />
(CASE) district awards for outstanding<br />
alumni events and communications as<br />
well as national honors from CASE for its<br />
alumni appreciation program in 2004.<br />
Ancona succeeds Kyle H<strong>of</strong>fman, who<br />
held the position for 23 years before leaving<br />
in May 2012 to become vice chancellor for<br />
Development and Alumni Relations at UC<br />
Merced.<br />
Numbers Show<br />
Achievement at <strong>UCR</strong><br />
1<br />
10<br />
35<br />
8<br />
1<br />
6<br />
New wasp species named<br />
after <strong>UCR</strong>. Serguei V.<br />
Triapitsyn, principal<br />
museum scientist at the<br />
Entomology Research<br />
Museum on campus,<br />
discovered several<br />
tiny female fairyflies in<br />
Russia and named them<br />
Gonatocerus ucri.<br />
<strong>UCR</strong>’s natural sciences<br />
and engineering spot in the<br />
annual Leiden ranking <strong>of</strong><br />
the top 500 major universities<br />
in the world.<br />
<strong>UCR</strong>’s overall ranking in<br />
the sciences worldwide,<br />
also from the Leiden<br />
ranking.<br />
The number <strong>of</strong> times Ian<br />
Whitelaw, music director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>UCR</strong> pipe bands,<br />
has placed at the Western<br />
United States Pipe Band<br />
Association.<br />
The number <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong><br />
faculty members who are<br />
part <strong>of</strong> the prestigious<br />
American Philosophical<br />
Society. Plant geneticist<br />
Susan Wessler was given<br />
the honor in April.<br />
The number <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong><br />
faculty who are members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the National Academy<br />
<strong>of</strong> Sciences. Xuemei<br />
Chen, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
plant cell and molecular<br />
biology, was elected into<br />
the academy in April.<br />
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FINDING<br />
HAPPINESS<br />
There’s a science to attaining joy,<br />
and researchers at UC <strong>Riverside</strong> say<br />
it could be as easy as 1 to 10.<br />
Whether you believe in destiny, divine intervention or just<br />
pure luck, obtaining and maintaining a blissful life may seem<br />
like a total shot in the dark. However, in recent years science<br />
has increasingly demonstrated that happiness can be controlled.<br />
Happiness, after all, isn’t merely an emotion. Happy people<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten enjoy good health, good social relationships, even good<br />
salaries. At <strong>UCR</strong>, the research, understanding and cultivation <strong>of</strong><br />
happiness is serious stuff. (The College <strong>of</strong> Humanities, Arts, and<br />
Social Sciences has even made happiness its theme, holding<br />
yearlong conversations on the topic <strong>of</strong> bliss.) The findings are<br />
so beneficial that governments and places <strong>of</strong> employment are<br />
listening carefully – and so should you.<br />
Play the Game <strong>of</strong> Happiness online and<br />
watch the “Happiness at <strong>UCR</strong>” video at<br />
BY VICKIE CHANG<br />
MAGAZINE.<strong>UCR</strong>.EDU<br />
Illustrations by<br />
Alex Eben Meyer
1<br />
What you believe about happiness may be getting<br />
you down.<br />
Some people believe finding happiness is<br />
contingent on certain events happening first — say,<br />
landing a dream job or getting married.<br />
But according to Sonja<br />
Lyubomirsky, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
psychology and the director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Positive Psychology Laboratory,<br />
this thought process actually gets in<br />
the way <strong>of</strong> finding happiness.<br />
“When we have a baby, when we<br />
get married, when we get a new job,<br />
when we earn more money, <strong>of</strong> course,<br />
that makes us really happy initially, but<br />
then we adapt to those experiences.<br />
And our happiness eventually returns<br />
to its original baseline.”<br />
Lyubomirsky, who defines<br />
happiness as “the experience <strong>of</strong><br />
joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined<br />
with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful,<br />
and worthwhile,” is one <strong>of</strong> the world’s leading<br />
researchers on happiness. The author <strong>of</strong> “The<br />
Myths <strong>of</strong><br />
Happiness: What<br />
Should Make<br />
You Happy, but<br />
Doesn’t, What<br />
Shouldn’t Make<br />
You Happy, but<br />
Does,” she has<br />
Dispel the Myths <strong>of</strong> Happiness<br />
“When we get<br />
married, when<br />
we get a new job,<br />
that makes us<br />
happy initially,<br />
but we adapt to<br />
those<br />
experiences.”<br />
dubbed these the myths <strong>of</strong> happiness. A person<br />
might think something is wrong if their dreams<br />
come true and they aren’t as happy as they thought<br />
they would be. They may then think that changing a<br />
relationship or a job would solve the problem. “Those<br />
things really do make people happy, but<br />
they don’t make people happy for as<br />
long or as intensely as they think they<br />
will,” Lyubomirsky says.<br />
Living with a less restricted notion<br />
<strong>of</strong> happiness may end up for the<br />
better — and can help you properly<br />
determine the (really) good from the<br />
(really) bad.<br />
The other myth has to do<br />
with resilience. Lyubomirsky’s<br />
research reveals that people <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
underestimate their own ability to<br />
recover from disastrous events.<br />
“We <strong>of</strong>ten think that, ‘Oh my<br />
God, my life will be over if I get a divorce, if I don’t<br />
find a life partner, if I don’t have as much money as<br />
I want, if I don’t accomplish what I want to with my<br />
life,’” Lyubomirsky says.<br />
That’s not actually the case.<br />
Lyubomirsky says, “Research<br />
shows that when people<br />
experience adversities —<br />
even when they fall ill, even<br />
when they get divorced —<br />
they recover and rebound<br />
incredibly well.”<br />
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2<br />
Careful: Those lowered expectations<br />
you label as realistic can be more harmful<br />
than you think.<br />
People who achieve ambitious goals<br />
attain a larger level <strong>of</strong> satisfaction<br />
compared with those who set and achieve<br />
more conservative goals, according to a<br />
study by Assistant Marketing Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Cecile K. Cho and<br />
co-author Gita<br />
Venkataramani Johar, a<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Columbia<br />
<strong>University</strong>. In other<br />
words, aiming high leads<br />
to a larger quantity <strong>of</strong><br />
happiness.<br />
“Our finding shows<br />
that people who set low<br />
goals and achieve them<br />
end up feeling like they fell<br />
short, because people <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
compare their performance<br />
to what could have been,”<br />
Cho says.<br />
For example, a student<br />
who aims for a B in a<br />
highly challenging class<br />
Think Big<br />
“People <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
compare their<br />
performance to<br />
what could have<br />
been.”<br />
and achieves it is unlikely to be content<br />
with the grade and will wonder whether<br />
she could have done better, Cho says.<br />
It’s difficult to predict how happy your<br />
performance will make you, so it’s better<br />
to set high goals and strive for them<br />
regardless <strong>of</strong> whether you achieve them.<br />
The happiness from higher achievement<br />
in turn can trigger<br />
motivation to<br />
raise work<br />
performance and<br />
even enhance<br />
one’s personal<br />
life.<br />
So think big<br />
– your happiness<br />
may be at stake.
3<br />
Humility isn’t the most sought-after<br />
<strong>of</strong> virtues. But in addition to making<br />
someone much more likable, it may<br />
just have a direct relationship with<br />
happiness.<br />
“People don’t <strong>of</strong>ten talk about<br />
the emotional benefits<br />
<strong>of</strong> humility,” says<br />
UC <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
psychology<br />
graduate<br />
student<br />
Elliott Kruse,<br />
“but it’s<br />
possible that<br />
it may be<br />
one way to<br />
become more<br />
content.”<br />
Kruse, along with<br />
fellow grad student<br />
Joe Chancellor, is<br />
studying the effects<br />
<strong>of</strong> humility and how<br />
people attain that<br />
quality.<br />
Eat That Not-so-Negative<br />
Slice <strong>of</strong> Humble Pie<br />
“Humility<br />
may be<br />
one way<br />
to become<br />
more<br />
content.”<br />
“We felt that some <strong>of</strong> the popular<br />
views <strong>of</strong> humility didn’t fit well with<br />
our own experiences interacting with<br />
the humble people in our lives,”<br />
Kruse says. “Many folks assume<br />
that the humble are overly modest,<br />
perhaps boring and even<br />
weak, or that the experience<br />
<strong>of</strong> humility is somehow<br />
negative.”<br />
From that perspective,<br />
Kruse says you’d think that<br />
humility might make people<br />
unhappy, because they’re not<br />
expected to like themselves.<br />
But Kruse and Chancellor<br />
have discovered the opposite:<br />
Feeling humble is related to<br />
feeling secure—and experiencing fewer<br />
negative emotions in general.<br />
“Humility may lead to happiness<br />
[by] making it easier for people<br />
to experience gratitude,” Kruse<br />
explains. “Which may in turn increase<br />
satisfaction with life.”<br />
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4 5<br />
Want to hear something really<br />
uplifting?<br />
Being intentionally positive – that is,<br />
performing acts <strong>of</strong> kindness, employing<br />
optimism, counting your blessings –<br />
may lead you not only to happiness,<br />
but out <strong>of</strong> clinical depression as well.<br />
Psychology Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lyubomirsky<br />
says there’s a connection between doing<br />
intentionally positive<br />
actions and depression.<br />
“Research shows<br />
that people can become<br />
happier by engaging in<br />
positive activities,” she<br />
says. “We have found, for<br />
example, that people who<br />
are prompted to express<br />
gratitude on a regular<br />
basis, or who are instructed to do kind<br />
acts on a regular basis, become happier.”<br />
Depression affects about 100<br />
million people worldwide — and<br />
more than 16 million adults in the<br />
United States alone. In approximately<br />
Be Positive<br />
On Purpose<br />
Being good<br />
to others,<br />
is actually<br />
good for<br />
you.<br />
70 percent <strong>of</strong> reported cases in the<br />
United States, the person suffering<br />
from depression either fails to pursue<br />
recommended treatment or declines<br />
any treatment.<br />
Intentionally positive acts are a<br />
novel option for those who do not<br />
respond to antidepressants or refuse<br />
to take them. They are inexpensive,<br />
less time-consuming, carry<br />
little to no stigma and have no<br />
side effects. “Studies suggest<br />
that people with mental health<br />
conditions can supplement<br />
their treatment by engaging in a<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> happiness-increasing<br />
strategies. There are probably<br />
hundreds <strong>of</strong> such strategies they<br />
can do,” Lyubomirsky says.<br />
For example, acting prosocially<br />
– helping others — has been<br />
found to lift negative moods<br />
and bolster self-esteem.<br />
“Who lives long, healthy and happy<br />
lives … and why?”<br />
This was the driving question<br />
behind the study called The Longevity<br />
Project (www.howardsfriedman.<br />
com/longevityproject). The project,<br />
which began in 1921, followed 1,500<br />
Americans their entire lives — from<br />
childhood to death.<br />
“It turns out that always being<br />
cheery and fun-loving was not<br />
healthy,” says Howard S. Friedman,<br />
distinguished pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> psychology<br />
at <strong>UCR</strong>. “The thrivers were those<br />
people who were conscientious<br />
— they were prudent, planful and<br />
persevering.”<br />
That meant they were less likely to<br />
abuse drugs, smoke or drink to excess.<br />
They were more likely to do things like<br />
wear seat belts or even follow doctor’s<br />
orders. Being conscientious, Friedman<br />
found, also meant having healthier<br />
experiences and relationships, from the<br />
workplace to the home.<br />
“These were the people who<br />
had stable marriages, got a better<br />
education, succeeded in their careers<br />
and gave back to their communities.<br />
They became mature, flourishing
Live Conscientiously<br />
(to Live Longer)<br />
adults, not self-centered happiness<br />
seekers! We also found that good<br />
social relationships are a major<br />
contributor on the road to health and<br />
fulfillment.”<br />
Friedman also found that<br />
conscientious people got involved in<br />
worthwhile activities and stuck with<br />
them – but a certain intricate balance<br />
was required: “It was not the partiers<br />
“It turns out that<br />
always being<br />
cheery and funloving<br />
was not<br />
healthy.”<br />
and retirees, nor those who chilled out<br />
and played golf, who stayed healthy<br />
and lived long,” he says.<br />
“In fact,” adds Friedman, “I just<br />
went to visit one <strong>of</strong> the participants,<br />
who is now 101 years old. He still<br />
works part time – and he volunteers<br />
by raising money for a medical<br />
foundation.”<br />
6<br />
If you’re feeling blue after a<br />
traumatizing workweek, treating<br />
yourself to a new purchase – a bag,<br />
a pair <strong>of</strong> heels – may make you feel<br />
better. Ye Li, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
management at the School <strong>of</strong> Business<br />
Administration, has found that<br />
sadness makes people want to spend<br />
money immediately. And while<br />
the idea <strong>of</strong> buying stuff to lift your<br />
spirits — commonly<br />
known as retail therapy<br />
— seems relatively<br />
harmless, the concept<br />
is very real. (It doesn’t<br />
just happen in bad<br />
episodes <strong>of</strong> “Sex and<br />
the City”!) “When<br />
people feel sad, they<br />
want to restore their<br />
devalued feelings<br />
about themselves by going out and<br />
acquiring new things – and to do so<br />
as soon as possible,” Li says.<br />
In the study Li co-authored, researchers<br />
found that people who are<br />
sad are willing to relinquish greater<br />
future monetary gains to receive<br />
instant financial gratification. Those<br />
in distress have less patience to spare<br />
Feeling Blue?<br />
Hold on to Your Wallet<br />
“Sad people are<br />
especially<br />
attracted to<br />
instant<br />
gratification.”<br />
and, thus, are more likely to opt for<br />
immediate incentives. Unfortunately,<br />
that could come with considerable<br />
financial loss. “Sad people are especially<br />
attracted to instant gratification.<br />
... Our research suggests that<br />
people should be aware <strong>of</strong> these<br />
effects and avoid making major<br />
financial decisions and purchases<br />
when sad,” says Li.<br />
Sadness affects you<br />
in more ways than you<br />
know. When you’re<br />
sad, it’s best to take<br />
a step back from any<br />
vital decision-making.<br />
So that shiny new<br />
iPhone you’ve been<br />
eyeing? Don’t buy it if<br />
you’ve had a bad day.<br />
In the long run, avoiding<br />
buyer’s regret will make<br />
you happier.<br />
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7 Sleep More<br />
What can help you look<br />
younger, lose weight, reduce stress,<br />
enhance your sex life, and — best <strong>of</strong><br />
all — is free? Napping.<br />
According to research performed<br />
by Sara C. Mednick, author<br />
<strong>of</strong> “Take a Nap! Change Your<br />
Life” and assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
psychology at<br />
<strong>UCR</strong>, naps can<br />
improve your<br />
everyday life. They<br />
help you think<br />
better and more<br />
clearly, and have<br />
no side effects.<br />
“The research<br />
that we’ve been<br />
doing has been<br />
looking at memory<br />
consolidation<br />
and creativity,”<br />
Mednick says. “We know that<br />
sleep is important for memory<br />
consolidation and has other<br />
cognitive benefits. The<br />
question is whether a short<br />
60- to 90-minute nap has<br />
all the same ingredients as<br />
a full night <strong>of</strong> sleep. ...<br />
“A short 60- to<br />
90-minute nap<br />
has all the<br />
same<br />
ingredients as<br />
a full night <strong>of</strong><br />
sleep.”<br />
What we’ve been showing is that, in<br />
fact, it can.”<br />
Mednick’s research has found<br />
that naps improve cognitive<br />
performance even better than<br />
caffeine, so next time you’re in need<br />
<strong>of</strong> a boost, don’t reach for that<br />
second mug <strong>of</strong> bad c<strong>of</strong>fee – take a<br />
little snooze.<br />
After all, Mednick<br />
points out, there are<br />
many advantages<br />
to taking a breather<br />
once in a while.<br />
The culture in the<br />
American workplace<br />
is to persevere and<br />
work on, she says, but<br />
that doesn’t improve<br />
productivity.<br />
“You do better after<br />
working for an amount<br />
<strong>of</strong> time and then taking a<br />
break – even if it’s just taking<br />
a walk or switching tasks.”<br />
Taking breaks, Mednick says,<br />
is “incredibly restorative<br />
and allows you to come up<br />
with new ideas.”
8 Be a Parent<br />
Despite the cell phone bills,<br />
the late nights and endless saving<br />
for college, parents aren’t an<br />
unhappy bunch. This is what<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Department <strong>of</strong> Psychology<br />
doctoral candidate and member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Positive Psychology Lab<br />
Katie Nelson and her colleagues<br />
have found in their<br />
research.<br />
“Most parents<br />
I talked to said<br />
that becoming a<br />
parent was one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the best things<br />
they had done with<br />
their lives,” Nelson<br />
says. “I wanted to<br />
“Parents<br />
reported<br />
greater<br />
positive<br />
emotions ...<br />
when they<br />
were<br />
spending time<br />
with their<br />
children.”<br />
understand why [previous]<br />
scientific studies didn’t match<br />
personal accounts <strong>of</strong> parenthood.”<br />
In investigating the emotional<br />
experiences <strong>of</strong> both nonparents<br />
and parents, Nelson and her<br />
colleagues found that parents<br />
reported higher global happiness,<br />
life satisfaction and<br />
thoughts about<br />
meaning in life.<br />
“Parents reported<br />
greater positive<br />
emotions and meaning<br />
in life when they were<br />
spending time with<br />
their children than<br />
during their other<br />
daily activities,”<br />
Nelson said.<br />
Nelson has also<br />
looked at what kinds<br />
<strong>of</strong> parents are happier:<br />
“We found that<br />
parents’ happiness<br />
depended on a few<br />
key factors: marital<br />
status, age and gender.”<br />
For parents, the level <strong>of</strong><br />
happiness depends on many<br />
additional factors, which may<br />
change over the life course. For<br />
example, parenting very young<br />
children or adolescents appears<br />
to be a trying time, but parenting<br />
adult children may have well-being<br />
benefits.<br />
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9 10<br />
Money can’t buy happiness.<br />
Or, at least, that’s what the research<br />
says. Spectrem Group, a consulting<br />
firm that covers affluent and retirement<br />
markets, recently released a survey that<br />
found that only 20 percent <strong>of</strong> affluent<br />
investors say money can buy happiness.<br />
Almost half <strong>of</strong> those surveyed disagreed<br />
with the statement.<br />
Why, then, do so<br />
many people believe that<br />
acquiring wealth would<br />
also mean acquiring<br />
happiness?<br />
That’s a question<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> alumnus and<br />
San Francisco State<br />
<strong>University</strong> Assistant<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Psychology<br />
Ryan Howell set out to<br />
answer.<br />
“It struck me as<br />
odd,” Howell says. “Either money has<br />
to have a positive effect on quality <strong>of</strong><br />
life or we should really try to figure out<br />
why people think it does. ... Everyone<br />
will tell you that they think if they have<br />
more money they will be happier.”<br />
So Howell — co-founder <strong>of</strong><br />
beyondthepurchase.org, a site that<br />
educates people on how their spending<br />
habits impact happiness — focused his<br />
research on asking people how they<br />
Invest in Experiences,<br />
Not Worldly Possessions<br />
“Life<br />
experiences are<br />
unique to us ...<br />
we don’t really<br />
compare them<br />
to other people’s<br />
memories. “<br />
spend their money to be happier.<br />
He found that people with cash<br />
on hand opt to purchase one <strong>of</strong> two<br />
things: an object or a thing to do.<br />
In Howell’s research, he found that<br />
experiential purchases – such as dining<br />
out or tickets to the theater – resulted<br />
in an increased sense <strong>of</strong> well-being<br />
because they fulfill the human desire<br />
for social connectedness<br />
and vitality.<br />
As objects deteriorate<br />
over time (say, a car<br />
or an iPad 1, iPad 2 or<br />
iPad 3), so does your<br />
happiness level. Keeping<br />
up with the Joneses may<br />
become an issue as well:<br />
“Comparison<br />
happens. If you get a new<br />
pair <strong>of</strong> shoes, part <strong>of</strong> your<br />
decision on how nice your<br />
shoes are is based on how nice other<br />
people’s shoes are,” Howell says.<br />
The same kinds <strong>of</strong> comparisons don’t<br />
occur with nonmaterial life experiences,<br />
he says. “Life experiences are unique to<br />
us ... we don’t really compare them to<br />
other people’s memories. There’s really<br />
no way to do that.”<br />
10<br />
Consider this: Facebook has 1 billion<br />
users.<br />
YouTube garners more than 4<br />
billion views every day.<br />
Twitter boasts more than 140 million<br />
users. Instagram has more than 80<br />
million registered users – and 4 billion<br />
photos. Tumblr plays host to around<br />
60 million blogs. Pinterest, despite<br />
launching just three years ago, has 20<br />
million users.<br />
“Social media has<br />
the potential to<br />
meet people’s<br />
fundamental<br />
needs.”<br />
These impressive figures have<br />
prompted <strong>UCR</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essors <strong>of</strong><br />
marketing and co-directors <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Sloan Center for Internet Retailing<br />
Donna H<strong>of</strong>fman and Tom Novak to<br />
examine how feelings <strong>of</strong> closeness and<br />
connectedness may arise from different<br />
types <strong>of</strong> social media. In short, how<br />
does social media impact happiness?<br />
“It’s clear that social media is not
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on Social Media<br />
only an activity that appeals to the<br />
troubled and lonely,” H<strong>of</strong>fman says,<br />
“but also has the potential to meet<br />
people’s fundamental needs in some<br />
positive and important ways.”<br />
A not-so-surprising finding is<br />
that when people use social media to<br />
interact with others, they’re likely to<br />
feel more related to others, she says.<br />
However, H<strong>of</strong>fman and Novak<br />
have also found that when people use<br />
more content-focused social media<br />
(for learning new things or spreading<br />
information), that behavior also has<br />
the potential to trigger a feeling <strong>of</strong><br />
connectedness.<br />
The next question, though, is<br />
whether both these paths lead equally<br />
to positive outcomes like happiness<br />
and satisfaction. According<br />
to H<strong>of</strong>fman and Novak’s<br />
research, the answer is<br />
yes. This suggests that<br />
the reasons people use<br />
social media have<br />
a large impact on<br />
whether these uses<br />
will lead to positive<br />
outcomes.<br />
Questioning Happiness:<br />
Why Proving Joy Scientifically<br />
Is So Important<br />
Happiness is a common goal among people around the world<br />
— defying social strata, age, geography, gender, ethnicity and<br />
nationality.<br />
“But happiness is not just a simple, hedonistic pleasure,”<br />
Sonja Lyubomirsky says. “People who are happy have been found<br />
to be more productive; they make more money, they have better<br />
relationships, they’re healthier, they’re more charitable, they’re<br />
better leaders, and they’re more creative.”<br />
Happiness is not just about feeling good. Multiple benefits<br />
accrue if you are happier.”<br />
That’s why investigating and analyzing happiness has be-<br />
come an important field <strong>of</strong> research — not just for psychologists,<br />
but for economists and policymakers as well. The way personal<br />
happiness is manifested in daily lives is slowly becoming a ba-<br />
rometer by which countries measure their achievements. Before<br />
the science <strong>of</strong> happiness was taken seriously, countries usually<br />
measured their success in monetary terms, such as the gross<br />
domestic product (GDP). Now, governments know that the well-<br />
being and betterment <strong>of</strong> their inhabitants are as fundamental as<br />
their monetary health. This is why a United Nations committee<br />
has recently proposed that governments begin measuring the<br />
happiness index levels in their countries.<br />
Bhutan, France and Britain have long kept track (it turns out<br />
that France is pretty miserable). The United States government is<br />
now considering doing the same.<br />
But how do you calculate something so seemingly subjective?<br />
“Happiness is subjective, <strong>of</strong> course. No one else can tell you<br />
if you’re happy. Only you know if you’re happy,” Lyubomirsky says.<br />
“But researchers measure a lot <strong>of</strong> things in life that are sub-<br />
jective — a lot <strong>of</strong> things that we can’t see,” Lyubomirsky says.<br />
“For instance, physicists study quarks even though no one has<br />
ever seen one. Medical scientists study features <strong>of</strong> the body that<br />
they have to infer. Just because something is subjective doesn’t<br />
mean we shouldn’t study it.”<br />
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Go With the Flow<br />
SHARON WALKER’S RESEARCH ON<br />
OPTIMIZING EFFECTIVE WATER TREATMENT<br />
AND DISTRIBUTION HAS LED HER THROUGH<br />
A SERIES OF SERENDIPITOUS EVENTS<br />
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BY SEAN NEALON<br />
Sharon Walker, an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
chemical and environmental engineering in the<br />
Bourns College <strong>of</strong> Engineering, is a native <strong>of</strong><br />
Los Angeles who moved east to earn her<br />
master’s and Ph.D. at Yale <strong>University</strong>. She<br />
returned to <strong>California</strong> in 2005 when <strong>UCR</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong>fered her the John Babbage Chair in<br />
Environmental Engineering.<br />
What has the John Babbage Chair<br />
allowed you to do?<br />
A number <strong>of</strong> things, but perhaps two are the<br />
most significant.<br />
It has allowed me to pay a couple Ph.D.<br />
students when they were doing projects that<br />
wouldn’t have been funded anywhere else. It’s<br />
great when a student comes to you and you can<br />
say, ‘Great idea, let’s do it.’ That’s the intellectual<br />
freedom that the Babbage Chair has given me.<br />
It also provides travel money. If I have travel<br />
money on a grant, I want to send my student. I<br />
want them to have the exposure. So I use my<br />
Babbage Chair money to cover expenses for<br />
travel. While traveling, I make a point <strong>of</strong> getting<br />
the <strong>UCR</strong> name out. I try to recruit graduate<br />
students and I have had some really successful<br />
research collaborations develop from the<br />
relationships I have made.<br />
How did you end up at UC <strong>Riverside</strong>?<br />
After earning my Ph.D. at Yale, I was set to<br />
do a post-doc in Germany when I decided —<br />
because I am from <strong>California</strong> — [to] throw my<br />
name in the hat for a few positions that were<br />
open in <strong>California</strong>. I had absolutely no<br />
expectation <strong>of</strong> getting an interview. And<br />
wouldn’t you know, <strong>Riverside</strong> called me up and<br />
invited me to interview.<br />
For a video on Sharon Walker’s research go to<br />
I came out here nervous as all get-out. But it<br />
was such a wonderful day. I remember meeting<br />
people and thinking what an amazing group <strong>of</strong><br />
faculty in the department. I was really blown<br />
away. I remember getting back to the Mission<br />
Inn after a very exhausting, rigorous day and<br />
thinking, ‘Gosh, I hope I get the job.’ I was<br />
really shocked. I don’t think I realized how<br />
much I wanted it until after I had been here and<br />
met everybody. I was flabbergasted when they<br />
called and said they wanted to <strong>of</strong>fer me a position.<br />
Can you talk about the program you<br />
developed that brings <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
Community College District students to<br />
your lab?<br />
I work with<br />
Heather Smith at<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> City<br />
College. Each year<br />
we select two<br />
students. They spend<br />
an intensive summer<br />
internship in my lab.<br />
We put them up in the dorms. They participate<br />
in wonderful pr<strong>of</strong>essional development<br />
programming. And they just get absolutely<br />
immersed in collegiate life. I’ll tell you, there is<br />
nothing like that to turn a young student<br />
around and say, ‘Wow, I want to go to a<br />
four-year college, I want to go on in science.’<br />
After that intensive summer, we continue to pay<br />
them as a research intern during the academic<br />
year. So, instead <strong>of</strong> being a barista at Starbucks,<br />
they keep going in science.<br />
To date, 100 percent <strong>of</strong> the students have<br />
gone on to a four-year institution. Two are in<br />
Ph.D. programs and the other is in a nursing<br />
program.<br />
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In 2009-10, you spent the academic<br />
year in Israel on a Fulbright<br />
scholarship studying how the country<br />
uses and reuses water. Why did you<br />
apply for the Fulbright?<br />
My husband and I were looking for a bit <strong>of</strong><br />
adventure. I was putting in my tenure file.<br />
Someone gave me the brilliant advice when<br />
your tenure file is in, get out <strong>of</strong> Dodge – because<br />
nothing is more stressful than sitting around<br />
waiting to be reviewed. We thought, ‘We don’t<br />
have kids yet, this is the time to go.’ And, funny<br />
enough, I got pregnant. So, we knew we were<br />
going to be having a baby while we were away.<br />
Because my daughter was born in Israel, we<br />
wanted to give her an Israeli name. So her name<br />
is Ma’ayan, which means a spring <strong>of</strong> water,<br />
which is fitting for my research area.<br />
Talk about your current research.<br />
The biggest thing I’m working on now is the<br />
fate <strong>of</strong> nanomaterials that are getting into our<br />
environment. Nanomaterials are being used in<br />
everything from cosmetics to food to paints to<br />
tennis rackets. Gym socks don’t smell because<br />
there are silver nanoparticles in there. They are<br />
what make our cell phones small and light.<br />
They are part <strong>of</strong> our new lifestyle.<br />
The problem is that these materials get<br />
released into the water as they are produced<br />
and used. I’m looking at how traditional<br />
engineering approaches can remove<br />
nanomaterials and, if they don’t, how to change<br />
the design <strong>of</strong> treatment plants to make sure our<br />
water is safe.<br />
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La Reina<br />
Seventeen-year-old Victor loved his beautiful, troubled mother, who wasn’t like any <strong>of</strong> the other mothers<br />
AN EXCERPT FROM SUSAN STRAIGHT’S LATEST NOVEL, “BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HERE.”<br />
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His mother knew<br />
trees. Showed him how to<br />
find bees in the pepper<br />
tree trunks, spiders in the<br />
eucalyptus bark shedding<br />
long flat sheaves.<br />
In fourth grade, they<br />
studied <strong>California</strong><br />
Indians, and Victor found<br />
a perfect piece <strong>of</strong> bark for<br />
his project. She took him<br />
to the riverbed, where the<br />
paddle-shaped cactus<br />
grew everywhere, and on<br />
the smooth green skin<br />
were cottony white<br />
insects. Their blood was<br />
magenta, a color he’d<br />
never seen, even among<br />
her eyeshadows and nail<br />
polish. She showed him<br />
how to paint the bark<br />
with designs in bug<br />
blood.<br />
She used to keep the<br />
bark picture in her trunk.<br />
The lock had been busted<br />
over and over, when<br />
people broke into it, but<br />
they threw the bark aside<br />
looking for money or<br />
rock or jewelry. Then<br />
someone got pissed when<br />
he couldn’t find anything,<br />
and he broke the bark in<br />
half and threw it on the<br />
floor.<br />
So she glued it<br />
together, and wrapped<br />
magenta ribbon from<br />
Rite Aid around each<br />
end, and hung it on the<br />
wall. No one would care<br />
about it then. And he saw<br />
her staring at it<br />
sometimes, when she lay<br />
on the couch. At each<br />
apartment, she hung it on<br />
the wall near the door.<br />
The bug was<br />
cochineal. An SAT word.
Back on the first<br />
Saturday in May, he was<br />
registered to take the SAT.<br />
His high school history<br />
teacher, Marcus Thompson,<br />
had paid for it—and he’d<br />
left ten dollars for Victor to<br />
buy the number two pencils<br />
and some c<strong>of</strong>fee for that<br />
morning.<br />
“Make sure you eat,”<br />
Marcus said, awkwardly.<br />
Victor said, “We got<br />
plenty <strong>of</strong> food.”<br />
He remembered being<br />
really hungry when he was<br />
three. She didn’t come home.<br />
He sat on the balcony.<br />
Maybe Jessamine Gardens.<br />
He couldn’t remember<br />
anything except his stomach<br />
was eating his backbone. He<br />
could feel something<br />
creeping up there. Vertebrae.<br />
He couldn’t breathe and so<br />
he sat outside, and his uncle<br />
Reynaldo found him<br />
because they were looking<br />
for his mother.<br />
in school. But he knew she loved him, too, because she always bought him ramen and orange juice.<br />
Kindergarten? When he<br />
coughed really hard and<br />
finally she came home and<br />
put him in the shower with<br />
her and they sat in there all<br />
night, the moisture beading<br />
up on her hair like pearls<br />
and then collapsing into<br />
nothing. The water going<br />
inside his lungs and<br />
somehow cleaning out the<br />
burn.<br />
But now she had it<br />
down. He was seventeen. So<br />
she left ramen, orange juice<br />
(and she bought Tropicana,<br />
not that Sunny Delight shit),<br />
and pistachios in the<br />
kitchen. The staples. And<br />
most nights, she brought<br />
home the scheduled items<br />
from El Ojo de Agua. He<br />
said to her, “Shrimp burrito<br />
from the Eye?”<br />
The Eye <strong>of</strong> Water. Jesus<br />
Espinoza, this guy in AP<br />
History, said that was from<br />
a town in Michoacan, where<br />
his father was born. Some<br />
shrine.<br />
The shrimp burrito had<br />
beans, rice, cabbage,<br />
tomatoes, sauce, and fried<br />
shrimp. $3.99. It was the<br />
size <strong>of</strong> a small log. A dusty<br />
white log. And Victor ate<br />
one every Tuesday.<br />
Wednesday was fish tacos.<br />
Thursday was tamales.<br />
Friday was Chess, and<br />
Saturday she was gone until<br />
dawn. Sunday she slept. He<br />
ate whatever his grandfather<br />
brought from Sarrat —<br />
gumbo or beans and rice or<br />
ham. Always oranges.<br />
She had her part as<br />
down as she could, and<br />
Victor had his part down<br />
cold. Perfect 4.0. Registered<br />
for the May 6, 2000 SAT.<br />
Last one <strong>of</strong> the year.<br />
Everybody else would be<br />
juniors, but he could finish<br />
college apps late and Marcus<br />
would help him.<br />
It must have pissed those<br />
other moms, when their kids<br />
mentioned him. This black<br />
dude with weird hair and<br />
he’s really light so he’s like,<br />
not even really black, and<br />
his mom is, like, a crack<br />
ho—that’s just what<br />
everybody says, okay, she<br />
is—and he gets like, 97 or<br />
98 on everything. Like,<br />
never lower. For reals.<br />
He had the secondhighest<br />
grade in the class in<br />
AP European History, the<br />
second-highest in AP US<br />
History, and the thirdhighest<br />
in AP Art History.<br />
Susan Straight talks about real places in the city <strong>of</strong> <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
that served as inspiration for her novel. Read the interview at<br />
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Brown-haired girl<br />
Logan had green eyes like<br />
olives, one <strong>of</strong> those girls<br />
who wore her hair in a<br />
ponytail and it was thick<br />
and long so you could see<br />
the reason they called it<br />
that. She asked him all<br />
casual as <strong>of</strong>ten as she<br />
could without seeming<br />
insecure, “So what’d you<br />
get on the test?”<br />
“What I always get.”<br />
Victor loved saying that.<br />
He didn’t even have to<br />
give her the percentage. It<br />
was always 97 or 98. Mrs.<br />
Mumbles had to take <strong>of</strong>f<br />
two or three points for<br />
everyone—even if she had<br />
to make up some shit<br />
about one word being<br />
awkward or you forgot a<br />
comma or a space in<br />
MLA format.<br />
But he loved Mrs.<br />
Mumbles. Mumford.<br />
Mrs. Mumbles didn’t<br />
buy into all the hype, and<br />
the old families and<br />
fundraisers and the right<br />
mom or wrong mom at<br />
Back to School Night. She<br />
never looked any <strong>of</strong> them<br />
in the face. She stared at<br />
some spot in the room<br />
and mumbled about<br />
funeral art <strong>of</strong> India and<br />
Impressionists and<br />
Cubism. She didn’t give a<br />
shit that Victor’s mother,<br />
who came to Open House<br />
because he’d told her it<br />
was the last time she<br />
could ever do that, sat in<br />
the back like the most<br />
beautiful zombie statue in<br />
the history <strong>of</strong> the world.<br />
She was luminous. In<br />
winter, the nights shitty<br />
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and cold, her skin got<br />
dulled like the gold-leaf<br />
frame <strong>of</strong> a painting if soot<br />
and years laid a patina <strong>of</strong><br />
darkness or haze. Then<br />
she would sleep for two<br />
days, and when the sun<br />
came out, they’d go out to<br />
the orange groves. Eat<br />
gumbo and oranges, see<br />
the grandparents, and<br />
she’d take a long shower<br />
and put almond oil in her<br />
hair.<br />
She’d be gilt again.<br />
And the other moms at<br />
Open House hated the<br />
way she gazed bemusedly<br />
at their fleece vests and<br />
mom jeans for two<br />
seconds before dismissing<br />
them and staring at the<br />
paintings on the<br />
classroom walls.<br />
The SAT plan was to<br />
get number-three scores.<br />
Logan had taken it twice,<br />
Amitav three times. Logan<br />
got a 1500, perfect score,<br />
and Amitav 1490, in<br />
October. Victor didn’t<br />
have the money in<br />
October, and in<br />
November she got<br />
pneumonia after a cold<br />
windstorm when she<br />
stood in the alley too long.<br />
His aunt Famine helped<br />
him one weekend with<br />
vocabulary words. He<br />
chanted to himself all day<br />
and most <strong>of</strong> the night.<br />
Luciferous.<br />
Loquacious. Lucid.<br />
Lucent.<br />
Susan Straight is a<br />
distinguished pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
creative writing at <strong>UCR</strong>.<br />
“Between Heaven and<br />
Here” is her eighth novel.<br />
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FROM MIND TO<br />
MARKET: COLOR<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
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Yin created his colloidal nanocrystal clusters in 2006. He wanted the<br />
100- to 200-nanometer diameter particles, which he describes as<br />
“spherical, with a rough surface,” to be able to bond to certain proteins.<br />
Once the particles had been created through a chemical reaction in<br />
liquid, Yin had what looked like rusty water. Hardly surprising: The<br />
particle essentially is rust, just very small, and in a very specific shape.<br />
2<br />
Thinking small — as in nanoparticle<br />
small — has led Yadong Yin into<br />
developing COLR Technology for a<br />
world <strong>of</strong> unlimited possibilities<br />
Almost immediately after his paper was published in 2007, “We got a<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> phone calls and emails,” Yin says. “Everyone had different<br />
ideas.” One <strong>of</strong> the earliest notions: Creating anti-fraud banknotes by<br />
embedding the particles into the bills so they could change color in a<br />
magnetic field. Other ideas flowed from numerous sources, from toy<br />
companies to car manufacturers, all <strong>of</strong> whom were interested in<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering completely customizable colors for their products.<br />
To find out more about Yadong Yin’s research go to<br />
BY TED B. KISSELL<br />
But when his assistant put it on the magnetic stirrer, he called Yin over,<br />
saying, “We have something kind <strong>of</strong> strange here,” Yin recalls. The liquid<br />
had begun to change color into beautiful, iridescent hues. Yin quickly<br />
realized that the color <strong>of</strong> the particles varied based on the strength <strong>of</strong> the<br />
magnetic field: Weaker fields made red, and then on up the visible-light<br />
spectrum to violet, as the field got stronger. “It’s basically an optical<br />
effect—it follows everything you know about optics,” he says.<br />
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When Yadong Yin, an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> chemistry at <strong>UCR</strong>,<br />
developed a new kind <strong>of</strong> nanoparticle from iron oxide, he was<br />
aiming for some kind <strong>of</strong> medical application. He was not trying<br />
to invent a new kind <strong>of</strong> futuristic nail polish. And yet that’s one<br />
possible application now being explored for what has been<br />
dubbed COLR Technology, through which the material changes<br />
color as it is exposed to a magnetic field. Yin, a compact<br />
4<br />
But what if someone wanted to pick a color and stick with<br />
it in a “dry” application like a tunable paint? Not long after<br />
the initial discovery, Yin figured out that by zapping the<br />
solution with UV light, a particular color could be set<br />
permanently — which would be ideal for things like car<br />
paint color.<br />
In his dealings with large companies, Yin notes, he generally ends up talking to<br />
technical people about the process. Idea Zoo was able to present his invention not<br />
to the techies, but to the decision-makers at large firms. Idea Zoo’s efforts led, in<br />
2012, to a partnership with chemical giant BASF to help bring Yin’s nanoparticles,<br />
now trademarked as COLR Technology, to the marketplace. Yin says that the<br />
process is now at the “scaling up” stage as BASF and Idea Zoo do some “serious<br />
R&D” into the most viable and sellable forms <strong>of</strong> COLR. Could be toys, could be<br />
cars, could be shoes—and yes, the nail polish concept is still in the works.<br />
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Illustrations by Colin Hayes<br />
39-year-old with a gift for explaining scientific concepts in<br />
plain language, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in<br />
his native China before getting his doctorate from the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Washington. Ranked by Thomson Reuters as second in the<br />
world among materials science researchers and a top 100<br />
chemist <strong>of</strong> the decade, it wasn’t long after Yin’s arrival at <strong>UCR</strong><br />
in 2006 that he made his serendipitous discovery.<br />
All <strong>of</strong> these discussions were interesting, but none <strong>of</strong> them led to a firm deal<br />
to develop the particles for the market. Then, in early 2010, Yin heard from<br />
Idea Zoo, a firm based in Silicon Valley. They had their own, very sci-fi idea:<br />
programmable nail polish, where you could change nail polish in a second<br />
like in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Total Recall.” (“I have that movie!” Yin<br />
<strong>of</strong>fers with a chuckle.) While Idea Zoo didn’t have much experience with<br />
chemistry, Yin was impressed with how seriously they took his idea and its<br />
potential applications, so he soon signed a licensing agreement with them.<br />
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SERVING THROUGH<br />
KNOWLEDGE<br />
The newly launched <strong>UCR</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy<br />
will bridge the university and the Inland<br />
community by generating research-based<br />
solutions to local and global problems<br />
From traffic on Highway 91 to air pollution<br />
in Mira Loma and poverty in Coachella, the<br />
Inland Empire is wrestling with many <strong>of</strong> the<br />
same problems that face emerging countries<br />
around the world.<br />
The new UC <strong>Riverside</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Policy aims to train the policy pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
who can help identify potential solutions to<br />
such problems. Their work could help<br />
governments across the globe with problems<br />
like water quality and access to health care,<br />
while also providing much-needed guidance to<br />
decision-makers closer to home.<br />
BY PHIL PITCHFORD<br />
“We need people who can determine which<br />
public policies are going to be the most<br />
cost-effective because many <strong>of</strong> these issues are<br />
quite complex,” said Anil Deolalikar, an<br />
economics pr<strong>of</strong>essor and the school’s founding<br />
dean. “A lot <strong>of</strong> the policies we have in place<br />
now are a knee-jerk reaction to some situation<br />
that has occurred. We need people who are able<br />
to distill that knowledge, determine what the<br />
options are and what the likely (intended and<br />
unintended) outcomes are.”<br />
The School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy, currently<br />
scheduled to admit its first students in fall 2014,<br />
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“Public policy as a discipline<br />
pertains to almost<br />
everything we do on this<br />
campus, which is why this is<br />
such an exciting program for<br />
so many people at <strong>UCR</strong>.”<br />
Anil Deolalikar, an<br />
economics pr<strong>of</strong>essor and<br />
the school’s founding dean<br />
will be designed to produce just such problemsolvers<br />
for jobs in local, state and federal<br />
governments and in nonpr<strong>of</strong>it organizations.<br />
Depending on pending curricular approvals, the<br />
school will begin accepting students in early<br />
2014 and eventually will have 30 doctoral and<br />
120 master’s degree candidates.<br />
“The pr<strong>of</strong>essionals that we are going to be<br />
producing here will be trained to take positions<br />
across the United States as soon as they leave<br />
school and contribute at a very high level,” said<br />
Joseph Childers, English pr<strong>of</strong>essor and dean <strong>of</strong><br />
the Graduate Division. “It also creates another<br />
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way for us to underscore the importance <strong>of</strong><br />
what we do on campus to the community that<br />
has been so supportive <strong>of</strong> us.”<br />
Graduate students will be able to pursue a<br />
Master <strong>of</strong> Public Policy (M.P.P.) and an<br />
M.D./M.P.P. in conjunction with the <strong>UCR</strong><br />
School <strong>of</strong> Medicine. A Ph.D. and a Ph.D. minor<br />
in public policy are planned. A 15-month<br />
Executive M.P.P. program will be available for<br />
experienced pr<strong>of</strong>essionals already working in<br />
related fields. Nondegree certificate programs<br />
will enable existing public employment<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals to pursue career enhancement.<br />
Four areas <strong>of</strong> specialization are planned:<br />
environmental and sustainable development<br />
policy, population and health policy, higher<br />
education policy, and immigration policy. In the<br />
same way the new School <strong>of</strong> Medicine aims to<br />
improve health outcomes in the Inland area, the<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy is being designed to play<br />
an active role in the region.<br />
“The public policy school will serve as a<br />
bridge between the university and the public,”<br />
said Ken Baerenklau, an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
environmental science and an associate<br />
environmental economist. “They will have a<br />
better understanding <strong>of</strong> what we do, and we<br />
will have a better understanding <strong>of</strong> what they<br />
want.”<br />
Students who pursue an advanced degree in<br />
public policy will carry on the <strong>UCR</strong> tradition <strong>of</strong><br />
treating the surrounding area as a “living<br />
laboratory” that generates research-based<br />
solutions to problems here and abroad.<br />
“It’s not just learning from the rest <strong>of</strong> the<br />
world, but also teaching the rest <strong>of</strong> the world,”<br />
said Deolalikar, who is known internationally<br />
for his work on poverty, malnutrition and<br />
illiteracy. “Public policy as a discipline pertains<br />
to almost everything we do on this campus,<br />
which is why this is such an exciting program<br />
for so many people.”<br />
The school is expected to strengthen the<br />
overall mission <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong> by bringing together<br />
academics from many disciplines across<br />
campus, including some that rarely interact<br />
with one another.<br />
“Right now, there is kind <strong>of</strong> a disconnect<br />
between the science side <strong>of</strong> campus and the<br />
social sciences and the humanities,” said Kevin<br />
M. Esterling, an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> political<br />
science and associate dean <strong>of</strong> the Graduate<br />
Division. “Science has a lot <strong>of</strong> practical<br />
applications, but it takes an interdisciplinary<br />
approach to determine what those applications<br />
might be. This school will bring people together<br />
and foster interaction between the colleges.”<br />
Ron Loveridge, an associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
political science who recently completed a<br />
33-year career as <strong>Riverside</strong> mayor and<br />
councilman, said the Inland counties will need<br />
sound policy planning more than ever since<br />
they are expected to be two <strong>of</strong> the largest<br />
counties in the state by 2060, trailing only Los<br />
Angeles County.<br />
“So much <strong>of</strong> what [our] faculty does is<br />
research for each other,” Loveridge said. “It’s<br />
important to get that research into the policy<br />
arena, and a School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy will<br />
do that.”<br />
“Science has a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
practical applications, but<br />
it takes an interdisciplinary<br />
approach to determine<br />
what those applications<br />
might be. This school will<br />
bring people together and<br />
foster interaction between<br />
the colleges.”<br />
Kevin M. Esterling, an<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> political<br />
science and associate dean <strong>of</strong><br />
the Graduate Division
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Thank you God.<br />
Marina Quinonez @MarinaQ17<br />
how happy you<br />
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We found tweets from<br />
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PAGE TURNERS<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Goes<br />
Around the<br />
World in Page<br />
Turners: From<br />
the Kibbutzim<br />
<strong>of</strong> Israel to<br />
Metaphors in<br />
the Chinese<br />
Language to<br />
the Music <strong>of</strong> El<br />
Salvador<br />
These books are available for<br />
purchase at the <strong>UCR</strong> Campus Store<br />
and online at www.ucrcampusstore.<br />
ucr.edu They have been discounted<br />
up to 30 percent.<br />
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The Renewal <strong>of</strong> the Kibbutz: From<br />
Reform to Transformation<br />
By Raymond Russell, Robert<br />
Hanneman and Shlomo Getz<br />
Rutgers <strong>University</strong> Press<br />
May 2013, 192 pages<br />
In Israel, a kibbutz is a<br />
communally owned agricultural<br />
settlement, governed under<br />
collectivist principles by its<br />
members. Starting in the late<br />
1980s, many kibbutzim — whose<br />
members work, reside, eat together<br />
and share income — underwent<br />
varying degrees <strong>of</strong> reform. Members<br />
could work outside <strong>of</strong> the organization,<br />
but wages went to the<br />
collective. Apartments could be<br />
expanded, but housing remained<br />
kibbutz-owned. In 1995, change<br />
accelerated. Kibbutzim began to<br />
pay salaries based on the market<br />
value <strong>of</strong> a member’s work. As a<br />
result <strong>of</strong> such changes, the<br />
“renewed” kibbutz emerged. By<br />
2010, 75 percent <strong>of</strong> Israel’s 248<br />
nonreligious kibbutzim fit into this<br />
new category.<br />
This book explores the waves<br />
<strong>of</strong> reforms since 1990. Looking<br />
through the lens <strong>of</strong> organizational<br />
theories that predict how open or<br />
closed a group will be to change,<br />
the authors find that less successful<br />
kibbutzim were most receptive to<br />
reform, and reforms then spread<br />
through imitation from the<br />
economically weaker kibbutzim to<br />
the strong.<br />
Raymond Russell and Robert<br />
Hanneman are pr<strong>of</strong>essors <strong>of</strong><br />
sociology at <strong>UCR</strong>.<br />
Term Limits and Their Conse-<br />
quences: The Aftermath <strong>of</strong> Legis-<br />
lative Reform<br />
By Stanley Caress (’78) and Todd<br />
Kunioka<br />
State <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New York Press<br />
September 2012, 205 pages<br />
Legislative term limits remain<br />
a controversial feature <strong>of</strong> the<br />
American political landscape. This<br />
book provides a clear, comprehensive<br />
and nonpartisan look at all<br />
aspects <strong>of</strong> this contentious subject.<br />
Stanley M. Caress and Todd T.<br />
Kunioka trace the emergence <strong>of</strong> the<br />
grassroots movement that<br />
supported term limits and explain<br />
why the idea <strong>of</strong> term limits became<br />
popular with voters. Utilizing a<br />
blend <strong>of</strong> quantitative data and<br />
interviews, Caress and Kunioka<br />
thoughtfully discuss the impact <strong>of</strong><br />
term limits, focusing in particular<br />
on the nation’s largest state,<br />
<strong>California</strong>. They scrutinize voting<br />
data to determine if term limits<br />
have altered election outcomes or<br />
the electoral chances <strong>of</strong> women and<br />
minority candidates and reveal how<br />
restricting a legislator’s time in<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice has changed political careers<br />
and ambitions.<br />
Stanley Caress is pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
political science at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> West Georgia.<br />
The Myths <strong>of</strong> Happiness: What<br />
Should Make You Happy, but<br />
Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You<br />
Happy, but Does<br />
By Sonja Lyubomirsky<br />
Penguin Press<br />
January 2013, 320 pages<br />
In “The Myths <strong>of</strong> Happiness,”<br />
Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the<br />
major turning points <strong>of</strong> adult life,<br />
looking to both successes<br />
(marriage, children, wealth) and<br />
challenges (divorce, financial ruin,<br />
illness) to reveal that our misconceptions<br />
about the impact <strong>of</strong> such<br />
events are perhaps the greatest<br />
threats to our long-term well-being.<br />
Lyubomirsky argues that we<br />
have been given false promises —<br />
myths that assure us that lifelong<br />
happiness will be attained once we<br />
hit the culturally confirmed markers<br />
<strong>of</strong> adult success. Because we<br />
expect the best (or the worst) from<br />
life’s turning points, we shortsightedly<br />
place too much weight on<br />
our initial emotional responses.<br />
“The Myths <strong>of</strong> Happiness”<br />
empowers readers to look beyond<br />
their first response, sharing<br />
scientific evidence that <strong>of</strong>ten it is<br />
our mindset — not our circumstances<br />
— that matters.<br />
A corrective course on<br />
happiness and a call to regard life’s<br />
twists and turns with a more open<br />
mind, “The Myths <strong>of</strong> Happiness”<br />
shares practical lessons with<br />
life-changing potential.<br />
Sonja Lyubomirsky is a pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> psychology at <strong>UCR</strong>.
An Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Chinese: Rhythm,<br />
Metaphor, Politics<br />
By Perry Link<br />
Harvard <strong>University</strong> Press<br />
January 2013, 376 pages<br />
During the Cultural<br />
Revolution, Mao exhorted the<br />
Chinese people to “smash the four<br />
olds”: old customs, old culture, old<br />
habits and old ideas. Yet when the<br />
Red Guards in Tiananmen Square<br />
chanted, “We want to see Chairman<br />
Mao,” they unknowingly used a<br />
classical rhythm that dates back to<br />
the Han period and is the very<br />
embodiment <strong>of</strong> the four olds. “An<br />
Anatomy <strong>of</strong> Chinese” reveals how<br />
rhythms, conceptual metaphors<br />
and political language convey<br />
time-honored meanings <strong>of</strong> which<br />
Chinese speakers themselves may<br />
not be consciously aware and<br />
contribute to the ongoing debate<br />
over whether language shapes<br />
thought, or vice versa.<br />
Inquiry into the workings <strong>of</strong><br />
Chinese reveals convergences and<br />
divergences with English, most<br />
strikingly in the area <strong>of</strong> conceptual<br />
metaphor. Particularly provocative<br />
is Link’s consideration <strong>of</strong> how<br />
Indo-European languages, with<br />
their preference for abstract nouns,<br />
generate philosophical puzzles that<br />
Chinese, with its preference for<br />
verbs, avoids. The mind-body<br />
problem that has plagued Western<br />
culture may be fundamentally less<br />
problematic for speakers <strong>of</strong><br />
Chinese.<br />
Perry Link is a distinguished<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> comparative<br />
literature and foreign languages<br />
at <strong>UCR</strong>.<br />
Senegal Taxi (Camino del Sol)<br />
By Juan Felipe Herrera<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Arizona Press<br />
March 2013, 128 pages<br />
“I wish I could find the words<br />
to tell you the story <strong>of</strong> our village<br />
after you were killed.” So begins<br />
“Senegal Taxi,” the new work by<br />
one <strong>of</strong> contemporary poetry’s most<br />
vibrant voices, Juan Felipe Herrera.<br />
Known for his activism and writings<br />
that bring attention to oppression<br />
and injustice, Herrera turns to<br />
stories <strong>of</strong> genocide and hope in<br />
Sudan. “Senegal Taxi” <strong>of</strong>fers the<br />
voices <strong>of</strong> three children escaping<br />
the horrors <strong>of</strong> war in Africa.<br />
“Senegal Taxi” weaves<br />
together verse, dialogue and visual<br />
art created by Herrera specifically<br />
for the book. Phantom-like<br />
televisions, mud drawings, witness<br />
testimonies, insects and weaponry<br />
are all storytellers that join the<br />
siblings for a theatrical crescendo.<br />
Each poem is told from a different<br />
point <strong>of</strong> view, which Herrera calls<br />
“mud drawings,” referring to the<br />
evocative symbols <strong>of</strong> hope the<br />
children create as they hide in a<br />
cave on their way to Senegal, where<br />
they plan to catch a boat to the<br />
United States.<br />
Juan Felipe Herrera is a<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> creative writing at<br />
<strong>UCR</strong>. He is currently the<br />
<strong>California</strong> poet laureate.<br />
Join <strong>UCR</strong> alumni<br />
in your area for<br />
a fun evening<br />
<strong>of</strong> casual<br />
conversation and<br />
refreshments,<br />
and welcome<br />
the new Class <strong>of</strong><br />
2013 alumni!<br />
M E E T<br />
M I N G L E<br />
NETWORK<br />
CONNECT<br />
Hosted by the <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Alumni Association,<br />
members in<br />
attendance will<br />
receive a gift and<br />
a chance to win<br />
two tickets to the<br />
Hollywood Bowl<br />
or Del Mar Races<br />
alumni events.<br />
Save the date for the event in your area!<br />
Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/11<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/17<br />
Orange County . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/24<br />
San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/30<br />
The event is free for all alumni to attend.<br />
Registration required. Sign up at<br />
alumni.ucr.edu/meetgreet or call 951-827-2586.<br />
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ALUMNI CONNECTION<br />
Alumni Association Awards<br />
The Student Alumni Association was<br />
recently honored with a Gold Award<br />
from the Council for Advancement and<br />
Support <strong>of</strong> Education for its Career<br />
Conference Series.<br />
Co-sponsored by the Alumni<br />
Association, the Conference Series<br />
brings alumni in the fields <strong>of</strong> business,<br />
medicine and law back to campus to<br />
speak to students about their potential<br />
careers.<br />
To volunteer to participate in the<br />
Conference Series or to get involved in<br />
any other student outreach programs,<br />
please visit the alumni website (www.<br />
alumni.ucr.edu) and click on “Get<br />
Involved.”<br />
Travel the Globe and Expand Your Horizons<br />
The <strong>UCR</strong> Alumni Association<br />
travel program <strong>of</strong>fers a mix <strong>of</strong><br />
exploration, education and<br />
adventure in partnership with<br />
reputable, prescreened tour<br />
operators.<br />
• Villages and Vineyards <strong>of</strong> Italy:<br />
Take part in educational<br />
programs and fun excursions,<br />
Sept. 10 to 20<br />
• Spain: Immerse yourself in the<br />
local culture and lifestyles <strong>of</strong><br />
northern Spain, Oct. 6 to 15<br />
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Visit the Alumni Association<br />
website (www.alumni.ucr.edu) to<br />
view pricing and details <strong>of</strong> these<br />
two upcoming trips.<br />
Tour participants, whether<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> alumni or not, must be<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>UCR</strong> Alumni<br />
Association. Each member may<br />
bring one travel companion as a<br />
guest.<br />
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CALENDAR<br />
JULY 27<br />
L.A. Chapter Annual Hollywood<br />
Bowl Event: “Chicago: The<br />
Musical”<br />
Alumni and friends are invited to join the<br />
L.A. chapter at its annual Hollywood Bowl<br />
outing. Come early for a preconcert picnic and<br />
meet fellow Highlanders. This year’s program<br />
is “Chicago: The Musical” — a brilliantly sexy<br />
tale <strong>of</strong> fame, fortune and all that jazz, set<br />
amid the razzle-dazzle <strong>of</strong> the 1920s. This<br />
winner <strong>of</strong> six Tony Awards will come to<br />
decadent life with a sensational all-star cast in<br />
a one-<strong>of</strong>-a-kind Bowl production. Tickets are<br />
$44 for Alumni Association members and<br />
guests, $49 for nonmembers. Order tickets<br />
online at www.alumni.ucr.edu/hollywoodbowl.<br />
AUGUST 4<br />
Sixth Annual Alumni Day at the<br />
Races – Del Mar, Calif.<br />
Join alumni and friends in a private sky<br />
room where one can watch and wager on<br />
exciting thoroughbred horse racing. Tickets are<br />
$40 for <strong>UCR</strong>AA members, and $45 for<br />
nonmembers. Space is limited; this event has<br />
sold out every year. Order tickets online at<br />
www.alumni.ucr.edu/delmar.<br />
OCTOBER 19<br />
Fifth Annual Chancellor’s Dinner<br />
The <strong>UCR</strong> community comes together at<br />
the Chancellor’s Dinner to support our best<br />
and brightest, but it’s also a time to honor our<br />
notable alumni. The 2012 <strong>UCR</strong> Medallion<br />
will be presented to Randy and Manuela (’66)<br />
Sosa. Virginia Phillips (’79), Ronald Stovitz<br />
(’64) and Ernesto (Ernie) Rios (’07 MBA) will<br />
also be honored as the recipients <strong>of</strong> the 27th<br />
Annual Alumni Awards <strong>of</strong> Distinction. For more<br />
information, go to www.chancellorsdinner.ucr.edu.<br />
How to contact the <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Alumni Association:<br />
Website: alumni.ucr.edu<br />
E-mail: ucralum@ucr.edu<br />
Phone: (951) <strong>UCR</strong>-ALUM or<br />
(800) 426-ALUM (2586)
50s<br />
’57 Hal Durian was a <strong>UCR</strong> charter<br />
student, one <strong>of</strong> the first 125<br />
students who enrolled in February<br />
1954. After he graduated, Hal<br />
taught history and government for<br />
41 years at Chaffey High School in<br />
Ontario. From 2005 to 2012 he<br />
worked for The Press-Enterprise,<br />
writing weekly columns on history.<br />
Recently, he wrote “True Stories <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> and the Inland Empire,”<br />
a book that highlights the<br />
remarkable stories <strong>of</strong> Inland<br />
Southern <strong>California</strong>’s forebearers.<br />
60s<br />
’64 Gloria Macias is a<br />
newly elected member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the San Bernardino<br />
Community College<br />
District Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Trustees. Prior to that,<br />
she was president <strong>of</strong> Crafton Hills<br />
College from July 2000 until her<br />
retirement on July 2, 2012. She<br />
was also the vice president <strong>of</strong><br />
instruction at Crafton Hills College<br />
for six years and dean <strong>of</strong> humanities<br />
at San Bernardino Valley<br />
College for three years. Gloria has<br />
more than 20 years <strong>of</strong> teaching<br />
experience.<br />
’64 Stephen Fry retired as UCLA’s<br />
music librarian with emeritus<br />
status in 2002 after a 30-year<br />
career at UC. While retired, he<br />
wrote a book on the English<br />
country dances published in The<br />
Gentleman’s <strong>Magazine</strong> (London)<br />
from 1737 to 1757, complete<br />
with music and dance instructions.<br />
He was also a contributor for “The<br />
Grove Dictionary <strong>of</strong> American<br />
Music” (second edition), for which<br />
he wrote the article “Musical<br />
TAKE FIVE<br />
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Wayne<br />
Scott<br />
B.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND<br />
RELIGIOUS STUDIES ‘81<br />
Wayne is the founder<br />
and president <strong>of</strong><br />
LifeHouse Theater, a<br />
nonpr<strong>of</strong>it community<br />
theater in Redlands that<br />
puts on original plays<br />
and musicals for more<br />
than 30,000 guests<br />
each year.<br />
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Philately,” which includes a<br />
complete list <strong>of</strong> music-related<br />
postage stamps issued by the U.S.<br />
Postal Service from 1898 to the<br />
present. He is married to fellow<br />
alumna, Frances Fry ’63 (’69 M.A.).<br />
’66 Michael Kraft is the co-editor<br />
and contributing author <strong>of</strong> “The<br />
Oxford Handbook <strong>of</strong> U.S.<br />
Environmental Policy,” released in<br />
Names printed in blue indicate members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>UCR</strong> Alumni Association.<br />
To update your membership, visit www.alumni.ucr.edu<br />
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What’s your favorite memory <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong>?<br />
I was very fortunate to have classes with Ron Loveridge,<br />
who later became the mayor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Riverside</strong>. His leadership<br />
in the class and his caring attitude meant a lot to me.<br />
Even [though] everyone knew he was brilliant, he remained<br />
extremely down to earth and relatable. He would even go<br />
out <strong>of</strong> his way to write detailed comments on papers that<br />
we submitted and I really appreciated that individualized<br />
relationship.<br />
Can you name a defining moment in your life?<br />
While working at the state Capitol one summer near UC<br />
Davis, I watched a revival <strong>of</strong> the movie “Mary Poppins.” I<br />
saw this unique mixture <strong>of</strong> acting, music and animation,<br />
all combined to tell a story with a potent message, and I<br />
thought, “I want to do something along those lines.” While I<br />
was grateful for my job at the Capitol, there was something<br />
missing. I realized that I needed to release the creative<br />
side dwelling within me. I want to use the arts to influence<br />
people positively. While good government is extremely<br />
important, I feel that the real battle in life is influencing the<br />
hearts and minds <strong>of</strong> men and women.<br />
What’s the best part about your job?<br />
Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but my greatest joy is seeing<br />
young people discover their hidden talents, something<br />
valuable that they didn’t know they could do, and then<br />
taking that newly attained skill and parlaying it into making<br />
their dreams come true.<br />
What are some <strong>of</strong> the awards that LifeHouse Theater has won?<br />
We’re a part <strong>of</strong> the Inland Theatre League and we’ve<br />
received countless wonderful awards from them in almost<br />
all areas <strong>of</strong> theater, especially in writing and music<br />
composition, but also in costuming, scenic design and<br />
acting. We’ve been really blessed with tremendous<br />
talent here.<br />
What are you most proud <strong>of</strong>?<br />
I am blessed to be working with people that I’ve seen<br />
transform because <strong>of</strong> [LifeHouse Theater]. These people,<br />
who were about to – frankly – take their lives and were<br />
going down a path that they may have not have returned<br />
from, discovered that they are valuable and that there is<br />
something they can do. They have been able to make a<br />
complete turnaround and that’s what I’m most proud <strong>of</strong>, that<br />
I could be used in a small way to help someone else.<br />
Watch an interview with Wayne Scott — and other notable alumni — at MAGAZINE.<strong>UCR</strong>.EDU<br />
October 2012. The book is a<br />
collection <strong>of</strong> state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art<br />
reviews <strong>of</strong> key topics in U.S.<br />
environmental policy and politics<br />
by more than 40 <strong>of</strong> the nation’s<br />
leading scholars in the field. It is<br />
intended to summarize scholarship<br />
over the past four decades<br />
and set research goals for new<br />
work in the field.<br />
70s<br />
’72 Juan Ulloa, a Superior Court<br />
judge in Imperial County, is the<br />
recipient <strong>of</strong> the 2012 Aranda<br />
Access to Justice Award. The<br />
award, named for the founding chair<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Judicial Council’s Access and<br />
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Fairness Advisory Committee,<br />
Benjamin Aranda III, honors a<br />
trial judge or an appellate justice<br />
whose activities demonstrate a<br />
long-term commitment to<br />
improving access to justice. He<br />
was recognized for establishing a<br />
collaborative relationship with<br />
court and consulate <strong>of</strong>ficials from<br />
Mexico to better serve the legal<br />
needs <strong>of</strong> his community, and for<br />
being a leader in court reform<br />
efforts and working to improve<br />
access to justice for all Imperial<br />
County residents. Through the<br />
Imperial County Blue Ribbon<br />
Commission, Juan used international<br />
collaboration to improve<br />
the services to binational families<br />
in the juvenile and family court<br />
systems. They worked with the<br />
state government <strong>of</strong> Baja<br />
<strong>California</strong>, the family court and<br />
court-appointed counsel, the<br />
university and the Mexican<br />
government to remove jurisdictional<br />
and informational barriers<br />
and resolve cases. Juan has also<br />
participated in the Judicial<br />
Council’s <strong>California</strong> Tribal Court/<br />
State Court Forum working group<br />
with Claudette White, chief judge<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Quechan tribal court, to<br />
establish protocols for coordinating,<br />
transferring and monitoring<br />
cases that involve Quechan<br />
families in Imperial County. The<br />
Judicial Council, the State Bar,<br />
and the <strong>California</strong> Judges<br />
Association co-sponsor the award<br />
in association with the <strong>California</strong><br />
Commission on Access to Justice.<br />
’74 Michael Bartee, coach at<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> North High School,<br />
recently became one <strong>of</strong> only 26<br />
coaches in <strong>California</strong> to mark 600<br />
basketball game victories.<br />
Michael came back to coaching<br />
after retiring in 2011. He began<br />
his coaching career in 1973, first<br />
as a freshman coach and then as<br />
a junior varsity boys basketball<br />
coach, before accepting his first<br />
teaching position at Perris Valley<br />
Junior High School.<br />
’75 John Samson was the<br />
construction coordinator for this<br />
year’s Academy Award-winning<br />
Best Picture “Argo.” John has<br />
worked as a construction<br />
coordinator for movies such as<br />
“The Hangover” (I & II), “The<br />
Back-up Plan,” “Spider-Man 3,”<br />
“Just Married,” “Stuart Little”<br />
and “Iron Man 3.” … Yolanda<br />
Moses received the Frederick<br />
Douglass Medal from the Institute<br />
for African and African-American<br />
Studies at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Rochester. This medal is the<br />
highest award given by the<br />
university for work pertaining to<br />
matters <strong>of</strong> diversity. She<br />
dedicated three years to the<br />
exhibit, “RACE: Are We So<br />
Different?” seeking to understand<br />
the rationalizations that support<br />
racial discrimination in the<br />
United States and abroad.<br />
’79 Marshall Johnson,<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Extension<br />
specialist, entomologist<br />
and lecturer, has<br />
received the<br />
Distinguished Scientist<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Year Award from the<br />
International Organization for<br />
Biological Control — Nearctic<br />
Regional Section. Only one<br />
individual is recognized annually<br />
for the award. Nominees must<br />
have spent most <strong>of</strong> their career in<br />
the Nearctic Region, which<br />
encompasses the United States<br />
and Canada, and have made<br />
significant contributions to the<br />
area <strong>of</strong> biological control. In his<br />
research he has explained the<br />
relationships between economically<br />
important pests and their<br />
natural enemies, and used this<br />
information to enhance biological<br />
control, thereby improving pest<br />
control and reducing reliance on<br />
insecticides. He has also been a<br />
leading contributor to understanding<br />
and mitigating negative<br />
effects <strong>of</strong> pesticides on pest<br />
control, including pesticide<br />
resistance, pest resurgence and<br />
secondary pest outbreaks. His<br />
many awards and honors include<br />
being named a fellow <strong>of</strong> both the<br />
Entomological Society <strong>of</strong> America<br />
and the American Association for<br />
the Advancement <strong>of</strong> Science. He<br />
is a recipient <strong>of</strong> the C.W.<br />
Woodworth Award from the<br />
Pacific Branch <strong>of</strong> the
Entomological Society <strong>of</strong> America<br />
and the Entomological Society <strong>of</strong><br />
America Recognition Award for<br />
Contributions to Agriculture.<br />
80s<br />
’84 Darren Johnson<br />
serves as the chair <strong>of</strong><br />
the Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Orthopedic Surgery<br />
and Sports Medicine<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Kentucky and the head orthopedic<br />
surgeon for UK Athletics. He was<br />
named the 2012-13 Southeastern<br />
Conference Team Physician <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Year by the Southeastern<br />
Conference (SEC) member<br />
institution athletic training staff,<br />
as announced by the Southern<br />
Orthopedic Association (SOA). He<br />
will be honored at the 2013 SEC<br />
Men’s Basketball Tournament<br />
when the SOA has its annual<br />
meeting at the 2013 SEC Sports<br />
Medicine Committee Meeting in<br />
Opelika, Ala.<br />
’84 (M.A.) Kevin Enns-Rempel was<br />
recently appointed director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Hiebert Library at Fresno Pacific<br />
<strong>University</strong>. After completing his<br />
degree at <strong>UCR</strong> in the program for<br />
historic resources management,<br />
Kevin has served as the Fresno<br />
Pacific <strong>University</strong> archivist for<br />
more than 25 years.<br />
’86 Froukje Schaafsma-Smith is an<br />
artist and arts educator with more<br />
than 20 years <strong>of</strong> experience.<br />
Recently, her work was on display<br />
at the Walter’s Mercedes-Benz<br />
showroom at the <strong>Riverside</strong> Auto<br />
Center. Her autobiographical art<br />
has been featured in one-person<br />
and group exhibitions and is in the<br />
public collections <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong> and<br />
UCLA. She received the Curatorial<br />
Award, Members’ Art Exhibition<br />
2012, <strong>Riverside</strong> Art Museum and<br />
The Fred Bird Memorial Award,<br />
Artist Council Exhibition 2011<br />
and Palm Springs Art Museum<br />
awards.<br />
TAKE FIVE<br />
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Darlene<br />
Tyler<br />
B.A. MUSIC, ‘82<br />
Darlene is a nurse<br />
practitioner who works<br />
for the <strong>Riverside</strong> County<br />
Regional Medical<br />
Center.<br />
As the sole provider for the<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> County Mobile Health<br />
Clinic, she covers 11 sites —<br />
from downtown <strong>Riverside</strong> to<br />
Mecca in the Coachella Valley<br />
to Temecula — providing basic<br />
health care and chronic disease<br />
treatment. “[Our clients] may<br />
be U.S. citizens or they may be<br />
undocumented; our care is given<br />
for free to people who don’t have<br />
access to health care in any other<br />
capacity,” she explains.<br />
gh<br />
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How did you end up working with the medically underserved in the<br />
Inland region? Was it something you always wanted to do?<br />
It was just a real fluke. In 2003 I got a part-time job as a nurse<br />
practitioner with the UCLA School <strong>of</strong> Nursing Health Center in<br />
downtown Los Angeles, where we provided health care to uninsured,<br />
homeless and indigent people. It was a really good learning<br />
experience for me; eight years later, due to reorganization, I left<br />
my position with UCLA and began looking for a similar position<br />
closer to home. I got an invitation from <strong>Riverside</strong> County. I put in an<br />
application and they called me and said, “We’d like to interview you<br />
for our Mobile Health Clinic.” So here I am, again, doing what I love,<br />
which is providing health care to people who don’t have any health<br />
care access.<br />
But you graduated with a bachelor’s in music. That’s quite a leap — from<br />
music into medical sciences!<br />
My first bachelor’s degree was in respiratory therapy before I was<br />
given the opportunity to study music at <strong>UCR</strong>. My third bachelor’s<br />
degree, from Cal State San Bernardino, was in nursing, and I have<br />
a master’s degree in nursing from Loma Linda <strong>University</strong>, a postmaster’s<br />
nurse practitioner credential from Azusa Pacific <strong>University</strong>,<br />
and my doctorate in nursing is from UCLA. I have gone to graduation<br />
too many times!<br />
What was it about higher education that attracted you so much?<br />
I started [my career] as a respiratory therapist and when I got<br />
my bachelor’s, I wanted to go back to school to do what I really<br />
loved doing — playing the cello. I knew I couldn’t make a living<br />
playing music, which is why I was a respiratory therapist. But I still<br />
wanted to study music. After I got my degree at <strong>UCR</strong>, I decided that<br />
medical school was a good avenue because I like science and I like<br />
technology. I was doing all my prerequisites for medicine when I was<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered a spot at the [then] brand-new nursing program at Cal State<br />
San Bernardino.<br />
As soon as I got done, I was told that I was so good with working<br />
with the patients that I really needed to be a nurse practitioner so that<br />
I could use all <strong>of</strong> my science and technology courses.<br />
I went into the nurse practitioner program and that’s how I ended<br />
up at UCLA. In my first interview for the position, my boss asked,<br />
“Do you have a Ph.D.?” And his second question was, “Do you want<br />
one?” He said we needed more people who are nurse practitioners<br />
who have Ph.D.s., who are able to do research but also have a clinical<br />
background working with patients. … Yes, I have a lot <strong>of</strong> degrees, but<br />
they have built one skill on top <strong>of</strong> another.<br />
What kind <strong>of</strong> advice would you have for people who don’t know what to<br />
do with their lives right after graduating from university?<br />
I think it’s important for people to find out what they are passionate<br />
about. And when they find that out, to follow that passion as far as it<br />
will take them.<br />
What’s the best part <strong>of</strong> your job?<br />
Being a nurse practitioner allows me to do patient counseling and<br />
treat patients as human beings, holistically, with names and stories,<br />
with a past, present and a future. That’s the nursing aspect that I<br />
really like. And I get to impact that!<br />
The staff <strong>of</strong> the Mobile Health Clinic goes out daily with a 40foot<br />
mobile home, loaded up with our medicine and charts and<br />
equipment. Once we park at our site, we just open the door and the<br />
clinic is open. I can change people’s futures. Wherever we go, the<br />
whole community comes in and they can get treatment. In a typical<br />
day, we get into a van, we go some place, we do our thing and we<br />
come home. And every day is different because we’re at a different<br />
place every day. <strong>Riverside</strong> County is the fourth-largest county in<br />
<strong>California</strong>. And we cover all 7,000 square miles.<br />
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’89 K.T. Leung was elected to serve<br />
as secretary/treasurer in November<br />
2012 for the <strong>California</strong> Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Accountancy. He currently serves<br />
as principal <strong>of</strong> the Leung<br />
Accountancy Corp. He previously<br />
served as manager <strong>of</strong> several<br />
investment groups, as principal <strong>of</strong><br />
Leung and Wong Accountancy<br />
Group, and Leung and Associates.<br />
He also serves on the boards <strong>of</strong><br />
various philanthropic and business<br />
organizations.<br />
90s<br />
’90 Renato Izquieta received the<br />
2012 Humanitarian <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />
Award for his contributions to the<br />
Homeless Outreach Court Program<br />
at the Orange County Superior<br />
Court. A longtime UC Irvine<br />
Extension instructor, Renato was<br />
recognized for his dedication to<br />
expanding the program, which now<br />
serves more than 1,300 people<br />
(up from 322 in the past two<br />
years). Every Wednesday, he<br />
assists the homeless and veterans<br />
with direct representation in the<br />
areas <strong>of</strong> family law, Supplemental<br />
Social Security income, public<br />
benefits, landlord/tenant,<br />
consumer, tax and other civil<br />
matters. At UC Irvine Extension,<br />
he teaches civil litigation, family<br />
law, torts and legal writing.<br />
’92 Rigoberto González is an<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> English at<br />
Rutgers <strong>University</strong> - Newark. He is<br />
the author <strong>of</strong> 13 books <strong>of</strong> poetry<br />
and prose and is the editor <strong>of</strong><br />
“Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years <strong>of</strong><br />
Latina and Latino Writing.” He is<br />
the recipient <strong>of</strong> Guggenheim and<br />
NEA fellowships and a grant from<br />
the New York Foundation for the<br />
Arts, and winner <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
Book Award, The Poetry Center<br />
Book Award, and The Shelley<br />
Memorial Award <strong>of</strong> The Poetry<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> America. He is<br />
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contributing editor for Poets &<br />
Writers <strong>Magazine</strong> and a member <strong>of</strong><br />
the executive board <strong>of</strong> the National<br />
Book Critics Circle.<br />
’92 Francis B. Allen completed his<br />
doctorate in clinical psychology at<br />
Palo Alto <strong>University</strong>, Pacific<br />
Graduate School <strong>of</strong> Psychology,<br />
and is the director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Transitional Program, a community<br />
mental health program, also based<br />
in Palo Alto.<br />
’99 Nathan Gonzales (’06 Ph.D.) is<br />
the archivist and head <strong>of</strong> special<br />
collections at the A.K. Smiley<br />
Public Library and curator <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Lincoln Memorial Shrine in<br />
Redlands. Prior to this he served<br />
as associate archivist at Smiley<br />
Library. He is also involved in the<br />
community, serving as president <strong>of</strong><br />
the Redlands Area Historical<br />
Society, the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Redlands<br />
Town & Gown and the Redlands<br />
Association <strong>of</strong> Mid-Management<br />
Employees. He is the founding<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> Redlands Modern, a<br />
committee <strong>of</strong> the Redlands<br />
Conservancy. He is also the liaison<br />
to the Redlands Historical Museum<br />
Association and is on the boards <strong>of</strong><br />
the Rotary Club <strong>of</strong> Redlands,<br />
Kimberly-Shirk Association and the<br />
Zamorano Club <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles.<br />
Nathan has co-authored three<br />
books with former Smiley Library<br />
director Larry Burgess: “Images <strong>of</strong><br />
America: Redlands” in 2004,<br />
“Redlands in Transition” in 2008<br />
and “Faithfully and Liberally<br />
Sustained: Philanthropy in<br />
Redlands” in 2010. He also has<br />
written scholarly articles appearing<br />
in historical journals.<br />
00s<br />
’03 Dominick Povero was hired by<br />
the Redlands Police Department<br />
in 2005 and has worked various<br />
assignments, including patrol,<br />
investigations and the Multiple<br />
Enforcement Team. In 2011, he<br />
was named the Footprinters<br />
Association Police Officer <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Year. This year, Dominick was<br />
promoted to corporal. … Carol<br />
(Preston) Nickoson recently married<br />
Mike Nickoson. She has worked<br />
as a campus fraternity/sorority<br />
adviser for eight years at<br />
Wittenberg <strong>University</strong> in Ohio. She<br />
is also an international volunteer<br />
for Gamma Phi Beta, serving as<br />
sorority director <strong>of</strong> Panhellenic<br />
Development, and serves as the<br />
editor for Connections, a quarterly<br />
fraternal leadership publication <strong>of</strong><br />
the Association <strong>of</strong> Fraternal<br />
Leadership & Values.<br />
’05 Sid Dixit recently began a new<br />
adventure at Nokia and welcomed<br />
a new baby boy.<br />
10s<br />
’10 Jasmine Hester stars in a new<br />
Web series called “Redwood.”<br />
The six-episode series premiered<br />
on Jan. 15, and filming for<br />
season two is already under way.<br />
Jasmine co-produced this series<br />
with creator Alisha Peats. She has<br />
held roles in other shows, such as<br />
“Touye Pwen,” “I Didn’t Know I<br />
Was Pregnant,” “Ghostwriter” and<br />
“The List.” She has also<br />
appeared in music videos and a<br />
Kentucky Fried Chicken<br />
commercial.<br />
’11 John Huerta has received the<br />
2013 Levi L. Conant Prize from<br />
the American Mathematical<br />
Society (AMS) along with <strong>UCR</strong><br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John Baez. They were<br />
awarded the prestigious prize for<br />
their article, “The Algebra <strong>of</strong><br />
Grand Unified Theories,” which<br />
appeared in the Bulletin <strong>of</strong> the<br />
AMS in July 2010. He is<br />
currently a postdoctoral fellow at<br />
the Center for Mathematical<br />
Analysis, Geometry and<br />
Dynamical Systems at Instituto<br />
Superior Tecnico in<br />
Libson, Portugal. …<br />
Serena Abeyta is in her<br />
second year at<br />
Southwestern Law<br />
School in Los Angeles.<br />
Serena ranks in the top 30<br />
percent <strong>of</strong> her class, is a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Law Journal Honors<br />
Program and is the recipient <strong>of</strong><br />
the Wildman Schumacher<br />
Scholarship. During her first<br />
semester, Serena earned the<br />
Witkin Award for receiving the<br />
highest grade in her Legal<br />
Analysis and Writing course.<br />
During her second semester,<br />
Serena placed as a quarterfinalist<br />
in the Intramural Trial Advocacy<br />
Competition. She works at the<br />
midsize firm Kimball, Tirey & St.<br />
John LLP in downtown Los<br />
Angeles. Serena was also recently<br />
engaged to be married.<br />
’12 D. Xavier Medina Vidal is an<br />
assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> political<br />
science at Virginia Polytechnic<br />
Institute and State <strong>University</strong>. …<br />
Rey Martinez was commissioned<br />
to paint an Egyptian-themed<br />
mural for the College <strong>of</strong><br />
Humanities, Arts and Social<br />
Sciences at <strong>UCR</strong> a few years ago.<br />
Recently, after graduating from<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> with a master’s in special<br />
education, his two loves <strong>of</strong> art<br />
and helping others with disabilities<br />
have come full circle: He will<br />
paint a mural for a school called<br />
Villa Esperanza, located in<br />
Pasadena, for children with<br />
autism. It is an interactive mural<br />
with a reusable surface, allowing<br />
students to write and paint their<br />
own dreams right into the mural.<br />
Are you celebrating a<br />
milestone event? Maybe you<br />
published your latest book,<br />
you got elected to <strong>of</strong>fice or<br />
you just turned 100. Tell us<br />
all about it, send a picture,<br />
and we’ll celebrate with you!<br />
Email us at news@ucr.edu<br />
and we’ll include it in the<br />
next <strong>UCR</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>.
WE REMEMBER<br />
Faculty<br />
John B. “Jack” Vickery<br />
Distinguished pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
emeritus, John B. “Jack” Vickery,<br />
87, died on Feb. 7. Vickery was a<br />
passionate and effective advocate<br />
for the <strong>UCR</strong> Writing Program.<br />
Colleagues respected him for<br />
combining tough-mindedness with<br />
fairness and integrity. Students<br />
praised his lucidity, his savvy and<br />
his interesting lectures.<br />
Vickery was born on Aug. 20,<br />
1925, in Toronto, Canada. He<br />
received a master’s from Colgate<br />
<strong>University</strong> in New York and a<br />
Ph.D. from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Wisconsin-Madison. He joined<br />
the <strong>UCR</strong> English department as an<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor in 1966.<br />
He was known for his work on<br />
myth and 20th century literature.<br />
His published work includes<br />
“Robert Graves and the White<br />
Goddess” (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nebraska<br />
Press, 1972); “The Literary<br />
Impact <strong>of</strong> The Golden Bough”<br />
(Princeton, 1973); “Myths and<br />
Texts: Strategies <strong>of</strong> Incorporation<br />
and Displacement” (Louisiana<br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, 1983), as well<br />
as more than 50 book chapters,<br />
journal articles and reviews.<br />
In addition to being a faculty<br />
member <strong>of</strong> <strong>UCR</strong>’s English<br />
department, Vickery was associate<br />
executive vice chancellor<br />
from 1984 to 1988, and vice<br />
chancellor <strong>of</strong> faculty relations<br />
and academic support from 1988<br />
until his retirement in 1993.<br />
After retiring from <strong>UCR</strong>, he<br />
maintained an <strong>of</strong>fice in the English<br />
department and was a regular<br />
visitor to campus.<br />
His daughters, Anne E. Floto<br />
and Elaine C. Shankar, and a<br />
stepson, Daniel Carter, survive<br />
him.<br />
Lowell S. Jordan<br />
Lowell S. Jordan, pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
emeritus <strong>of</strong> horticultural science<br />
and a plant physiologist in the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Botany and Plant<br />
Sciences, died on March 2. He<br />
was 82.<br />
Jordan’s research interests were<br />
in the areas <strong>of</strong> herbicide efficacy,<br />
herbicide physiology and the mode<br />
<strong>of</strong> action <strong>of</strong> herbicides. Among<br />
his achievements was explaining<br />
the way herbicides work. It was<br />
once thought that herbicides killed<br />
weeds by inhibiting their photosynthesis.<br />
Jordan showed that the<br />
chemicals impair the manufacture<br />
<strong>of</strong> proteins within plant cells.<br />
Jordan was named a fellow<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Weed Science Society<br />
<strong>of</strong> America and <strong>of</strong> the Western<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Weed Sciences, and in<br />
1982 he received the Outstanding<br />
Teaching Award <strong>of</strong> the Weed<br />
Science Society <strong>of</strong> America. He<br />
was active in pr<strong>of</strong>essional societies<br />
and on university committees.<br />
Born on April 23, 1930, in<br />
Vale, Ore., Jordan received his<br />
B.S. in agriculture from Oregon<br />
State College (now <strong>University</strong>) in<br />
1954 and his Ph.D. in agronomy<br />
and agricultural biology from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Minnesota in<br />
1957. He joined the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Horticulture at <strong>UCR</strong> in 1959<br />
as assistant plant physiologist.<br />
In 1967 he received pr<strong>of</strong>essorial<br />
rank in addition to the Cooperative<br />
Extension title. He retired in<br />
1993.<br />
Jordan is survived by his wife,<br />
Catalina; daughters Diane Hankla<br />
<strong>of</strong> Santa Cruz and Sharon Luster <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Riverside</strong>; sons Gary <strong>of</strong> <strong>Riverside</strong><br />
and James <strong>of</strong> Murrieta; and<br />
stepdaughter Luralyn Montecillo-<br />
Cruz <strong>of</strong> North Carolina.<br />
Victor Shapiro<br />
Victor Shapiro, pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
emeritus <strong>of</strong> mathematics, died on<br />
March 1.<br />
An expert on trigonometric<br />
series and differential equations,<br />
Shapiro was internationally<br />
recognized for several solutions to<br />
specific problems in mathematics.<br />
One reviewer wrote that he was<br />
“this country’s leading authority<br />
on Multiple Trigonometric Series.”<br />
He was the author <strong>of</strong> more than 80<br />
research articles, and continued to<br />
conduct research, write and teach<br />
after his retirement in 1994.<br />
Shapiro was born on Oct. 16,<br />
1924. He received a B.S. in<br />
1947, an M.S. in 1949 and a<br />
Ph.D., all in mathematics, from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago. Before<br />
joining <strong>UCR</strong> in 1964 as a full<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Shapiro spent five years<br />
on the faculty at Rutgers, four<br />
years at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Oregon<br />
and three years at the Institute<br />
for Advanced Study in Princeton.<br />
In 1978, he was selected by the<br />
Academic Senate to deliver the<br />
Faculty Research Lecture.<br />
He is survived by his wife,<br />
Florence; two daughters; and two<br />
sons.<br />
Robert H. McDonald<br />
Robert Herwick McDonald died<br />
from complications <strong>of</strong> old age in<br />
Berkeley on Jan. 16. He was 80.<br />
Born in Philadelphia on Jan.<br />
13, 1933, McDonald will be most<br />
remembered for his tenure as a<br />
museum pr<strong>of</strong>essional. He worked<br />
at the Berkeley <strong>University</strong> Art<br />
Museum, the La Jolla Musem <strong>of</strong><br />
Contemporary Art, the Art Museum<br />
<strong>of</strong> Santa Cruz County, the Laguna<br />
Art Museum and the de Saisset<br />
Museum at Santa Clara <strong>University</strong>.<br />
A UC Berkeley graduate,<br />
McDonald taught European history<br />
and Western civilization at <strong>UCR</strong><br />
and UC Berkeley before leaving<br />
academia to become gallery<br />
director at Daniel Weinberg Gallery<br />
from 1974 through 1976.<br />
McDonald was passionate<br />
about contemporary art and<br />
championed the work <strong>of</strong> a number<br />
<strong>of</strong> West Coast artists in exhibition<br />
reviews. He authored numerous<br />
catalog essays, most notably for an<br />
exhibition he’d curated <strong>of</strong> Christo’s<br />
work at the La Jolla Musem and<br />
for a catalog <strong>of</strong> the Rene Di Rosa<br />
Art Collection. McDonald was also<br />
a proud advocate for gay rights.<br />
Staff<br />
Oscar Clarke<br />
Oscar Clarke, the first curator <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>UCR</strong>’s Herbarium, died on March 2<br />
<strong>of</strong> prostate and bladder cancer. He<br />
was 93.<br />
“He was the expert on local<br />
flora,” said Andy Sanders, who took<br />
over from Clarke in 1979 as the<br />
second curator and knew him for<br />
40 years. “He had a great breadth<br />
<strong>of</strong> natural history knowledge. Oscar<br />
put the Herbarium on the map as a<br />
public institution. He connected the<br />
place to the larger community.”<br />
Clarke was born in Colton, Calif.,<br />
in 1919, and was the tree climber<br />
for noted ornithologist Wilson<br />
Hanna as a youth. He attended<br />
San Bernardino Valley College and<br />
joined the Citrus Experiment Station<br />
in 1941. He was drafted into the<br />
Army soon thereafter and served<br />
until the end <strong>of</strong> World War II, when<br />
he returned to the Experiment<br />
Station. Once <strong>UCR</strong> was founded,<br />
Clarke worked for the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Nematology until 1966, when he<br />
was named curator <strong>of</strong> the recently<br />
established Herbarium. He retired<br />
in 1979, but continued to volunteer<br />
at the Herbarium until shortly<br />
before his death. Also during his<br />
retirement, Clarke researched and<br />
was the main author <strong>of</strong> “The Flora <strong>of</strong><br />
the Santa Ana River and Environs”<br />
(2007).<br />
Clarke is survived by his wife,<br />
Marsia; and children, Taffy, Ken and<br />
Diane.<br />
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CLASS ACTS
C SCAPE<br />
Don Carey (‘70)<br />
The Football Official<br />
LITTY MATHEW<br />
There was a time when <strong>UCR</strong> had a<br />
football team, and National Football League<br />
(NFL) <strong>of</strong>ficial Donald Matthew Carey was<br />
on it. “The coaches were Pete Katella and<br />
Gary Knecht, who, like all good coaches,<br />
were good teachers first,” says Carey. “I<br />
learned a lot about how the game is coached<br />
and played by observing them.”<br />
Carey caught football fever as a child<br />
growing up in San Diego, Calif. He<br />
36 | <strong>UCR</strong> Spring 2013<br />
Illustration by<br />
Mike T<strong>of</strong>anelli<br />
remembers watching the 1958 NFL<br />
championship game between the Baltimore<br />
Colts and the New York Giants on TV. It<br />
was the first play<strong>of</strong>f game that went into<br />
sudden death during overtime — and<br />
Carey still refers to it as “the greatest game<br />
ever.”<br />
The love for the game led Carey into<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficiating. Encouraged by his brother,<br />
Michael, an NFL referee, Carey started in<br />
his hometown by joining the San Diego<br />
County Football Officials Association in<br />
the mid ‘70s and worked his way up to the<br />
Pacific Coast Athletic Association Big West<br />
Conference. In 1995, Carey <strong>of</strong>ficiated his<br />
first regular season NFL game between<br />
the San Diego Chargers and the<br />
Oakland Raiders. It was a coincidence<br />
that his first assignment was <strong>of</strong>ficiating<br />
his hometown team.<br />
“When I started, my dream was<br />
to be a high school varsity referee,”<br />
says Carey. Today, he has completed<br />
18 NFL seasons and has <strong>of</strong>ficiated<br />
12 games. Seventeen seasons were<br />
spent as a back judge, where he was<br />
responsible for calls 20 yards into<br />
the defensive backfield on the wide<br />
receiver’s side. In the 2009 season, he<br />
worked as a head referee, supervising<br />
the six other <strong>of</strong>ficials on the field with<br />
the final authority on all rulings.<br />
Being an NFL <strong>of</strong>ficial is a<br />
part-time job, but it requires a<br />
constant, high level <strong>of</strong> focus<br />
and a depth <strong>of</strong> knowledge that<br />
only comes with time on the<br />
field. While the basic NFL<br />
requirement is 10 years <strong>of</strong><br />
experience at the major<br />
college level, working in<br />
front <strong>of</strong> at least 50,000<br />
spectators, it requires 15<br />
to 20 years to achieve the<br />
proper experience. This was<br />
the challenge that replacement<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficials faced during the<br />
2012 referee strike while NFL<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficials negotiated pension and retirement<br />
benefits. “When referees reach the NFL,<br />
they’re faced with a new and complicated<br />
rule book and <strong>of</strong>ficiating philosophy,” says<br />
Carey.<br />
And like everyone, Carey has made<br />
mistakes. “On most occasions, I learn more<br />
from examining the causes <strong>of</strong> an incorrect<br />
call,” he says. “There’s a tendency in all<br />
walks <strong>of</strong> life to take success and accuracy<br />
“THERE’S A<br />
TENDENCY IN<br />
ALL WALKS OF<br />
LIFE TO TAKE<br />
SUCCESS AND<br />
ACCURACY FOR<br />
GRANTED. THIS<br />
IS NOT THE PATH<br />
TO IMPROVED<br />
PERFORMANCE.”<br />
for granted. This is not the path to improved<br />
performance.”<br />
Carey, who graduated from <strong>UCR</strong> with<br />
a degree in history, just retired from the<br />
United States Department <strong>of</strong> Defense after<br />
a 30-year career as a contracting <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />
and program integrator for advanced cruise<br />
missiles. He’s found an uncanny parallel<br />
between his two careers: “In my business<br />
career, I learned the value <strong>of</strong> unbiased<br />
analysis, preparation and execution. Those<br />
lessons have influenced my NFL career and<br />
the rest <strong>of</strong> my life,” says Carey.
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Clearing the air: Using the world’s largest indoor atmospheric research<br />
chamber, <strong>UCR</strong> engineer Akua Asa-Awuku studies air-polluting black carbon<br />
particles and the role they play in cloud formation and global warming.<br />
Explore more sustainability impacts<br />
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Calling the<br />
U C R<br />
TARTAN<br />
ARMY! is moving to the fall, so save the date<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> Homecoming<br />
November 16, 2013<br />
<strong>UCR</strong> vs. Montana State<br />
Come home to your alma mater and enjoy a day <strong>of</strong> great food, good<br />
friends, fond memories and a chance to cheer on your Highlander<br />
Men’s Basketball Team as they kick <strong>of</strong>f the 2013-14 season.<br />
Watch for more details at www.alumni.ucr.edu/homecoming