UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

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February 12, 2014

From Riverside to Sochi: UCR Alum Butner to Pilot Two-Man Bobsled at Winter OlympicsThe 2005 graduate is third Olympian in school history

By Ross French

During his time at UC Riverside, Cory Butner was what Student Recreation Center Associate Director Mike Eason describes as a “gym rat.” Whether it was working as a SRC staff member in the weight room, playing bas-ketball, or working out himself, when Butner wasn’t in the classroom pursuing his degree in statistics, he could likely be found within the walls of the Student Recreation Center.

Now just eight years after earning his degree and six years after taking up the sport of bobsledding, the 32-year old, 6-2, 210-pound Yucaipa native is representing the United States as a pilot of a two-man bobsled at the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The two-man competition is scheduled for Feb. 16 and 17 at the Sanki Sliding Center.

“Being a part of this team is the best thing to happen to me,” Butner said. “I’m really excited to be representing the USA on the big stage.”

Butner is currently ranked fifth in the world and is in the midst of a strong 2013-14 World Cup campaign that has seen him record bronze medal finishes at Lake Placid on Dec. 14, 2013, and Winterberg, Germany, on Jan. 3. He also has three fourth-place finishes, including the most recent event on Jan. 25 at Schönau am Königsee, Germany. In 2012-13, he won silver medals at the Park City World Cup and Lake Placid World Cup. He finished ninth overall in the competition at the Sochi track and finished the season ranked eighth in the world.

“Most people don’t know about 95 percent of the stuff that goes into racing. You only get to see 5 percent of what we do on TV once every four years,” he said. “Four years for four minutes of racing to prove to the world who is the best.”

A basketball and track athlete at Colton High School, Butner didn’t play intercollegiate sports at UCR, but fed his desire for competition in the weight room and through intramural sports. He credits his sister, Charity – who played volleyball at UCR and graduated in 2000 – with giving him the idea to pursue the bobsled follow-ing his graduation in 2005.

Cory Butner will drive one of three two-man bobsleds for the United States at the Sochi Olympics. PHOTO BY PAT HENDRICK

“My sister was the one who mentioned trying out for bobsled when she graduated from UCR and it caught my interest,” he recalled. “I filled out a form online, went to Lake Placid, N.Y., to try it out and here I am seven years later.”

Butner started in the sport as a “push athlete” in 2007, responsible for pushing the sled the first few yards down the icy track before disappearing behind the pilot for the plunge down the icy chute. Butner made the move to driving prior to the 2009-10 season, but narrowly missed out on a spot at the Vancouver Olympics.

Charity Butner said that she is happy to have encouraged him on the path that has led him to Sochi and is look-ing forward to seeing him compete in person.

“It is truly amazing to watch him compete in person. I was lucky enough once to see him take a silver medal in a World Cup race, I hope I am lucky enough to see him medal at the Olympics,” she said. “I know all he has sacrificed, all he has had to go through to get to this point and I could not be happier. He has worked so hard and given up so much in his quest for the Olympics and I am such a proud sister.”

Cory Butner credited the knowledge gained while earning his statistics degree at UCR with helping him to be a better pilot.

“I’m great with numbers and that’s all we do here,” he said. “We get time sheets and break down the data to see how and where we can pick up extra time.”

While Butner is likely the first Winter Olympian in UCR history, he isn’t the first to wear the red, white and blue. In 1972 Hugo Salcedo was a member of the USA Soccer team that competed in Munich and Daron Kirkreit was a pitcher for the USA baseball squad during the 1992 Barcelona Olym-pics. Looking forward, distance runner Brenda Martinez (’10) is a hopeful for a spot on the 2016 Summer Olympic Track and Field Team.

But for now, all eyes are on Butner as he and teammates make practice runs on the Sochi course. And, of course, there are now many more bobsledding fans in the Inland Empire, among them UCR adjunct math faculty member Mike Curtis. A friend of the Butner family who played intra-mural volleyball with both Butners and taught Cory in Math 5, Curtis described the Olympian in effusive terms.

“He’s giant, enthusiastic, outgoing, self-effacing,” Curtis said. “I’m definitely a bobsledding fan this year.”

Butner is based in Charlotte, N.C., but returns to Califor-nia regularly to visit his parents Yvonne and Jim in nearby Yucaipa. During a visit this past summer he returned to UCR for a visit and said he was amazed by the changes. “So much more growth,” he said.

And he had a message for current UCR students.

“Follow your dreams and never give up on what you believe, even when people say you can’t do it or it’s a dumb idea,” he said. “Also, enjoy your time in college because the time flies by.”

Cory Butner

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Family Medicine Residency Training Program in Palm Springs Receives AccreditationUCR School of Medicine-sponsored program will receive its first eight residents in July 2015

By Kathy Barton

The UCR School of Medicine residency training program in family medicine, in partnership with Desert Regional Medical Center, has received ac-creditation and will accept its first residents for the three-year training program in July 2015.

The program – designed and located in Palm Springs to help address the shortage of primary care physicians in the Coachella Valley – was granted accreditation in late January by the Ac-creditation Council for Graduate Medical Educa-tion (ACGME), the national body responsible for post-M.D. training programs in the U.S.

Family medicine is a primary care medical spe-cialty in which physicians provide comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages and, increasingly, coordinate patients’ care by subspecialists. It is estimated that the area of the Coachella Valley served by Desert Regional Medical Center has a 50 percent shortage of family medicine physicians.

“Family medicine will remain pivotal in addressing the health care needs of both our region and our nation,” said Dr. Gemma Kim, program director of the medical school’s family medicine residency training program in Palm Springs. “We hope to expand access and strengthen primary care in the Coachella Valley while providing personalized care of the highest quality that is patient-, family- and community-centered.”

Residents will train primarily at Desert Regional Medical Center and the UCR Health Family Medicine Center adjacent to the medical center. The three-year program will enroll eight residents each year, meaning there will be a total of 24 residents when the family medicine program is fully developed. Eight family physicians will graduate from the residency program each year starting in 2018.

“The approval of the UCR residency program at Desert Regional Medical Center is such an exciting event for our hospital, as we continue to grow as an academic medical center,” said Carolyn Caldwell, president and chief executive officer of Desert Regional Medical Center. “The physician faculty of UCR Health have already provid-ed a wonderful resource to patients through the primary care offices they have opened on our campus. They are already making a difference in helping to solve the primary care physician shortage in our valley.”

“Desert Regional looks forward to welcoming our first class of UCR residents in family medicine,” Caldwell said. “We know that academic medicine brings with it a whole range of clinical insights and expertise. It will be a wonderful experience for our current physicians, our nurses, our staff and — most of all – our patients.”

Desert Regional Medical Center

Start-up of the program has been supported by the Desert Healthcare District, which in 2012 awarded a $5 mil-lion, five-year grant to the UCR School of Medicine to assist in establishing primary care services in the region, launch residency training and expand programs for Coachella Valley students interested in pursuing medicine as a career.

“The goal of the UCR medical school with this residency program, expanding access to the highest quality patient-centered medical care, aligns perfectly with a key objective of the Desert Healthcare District to address the healthcare workforce shortage,” said Kathy Greco, executive director of the health care district. “We are pleased to be a partner with the UCR School of Medicine.”

Residency programs provide the post-M.D. training required for physicians to become fully independent and board certified in their specialties. Family medicine training programs are three years long and, during that time, residents provide patient care under the supervision of attending physicians who are faculty of the resi-dency program.

Expanding residency training programs is a key strategy of the UCR School of Medicine to address the severe physician shortage in Inland Southern California, according to Dr. G. Richard Olds, vice chancellor for health affairs at UCR and dean of the School of Medicine. That is because physicians tend to practice in the geographic area where they complete their residency training.

“We are pleased to be launching this new residency training program in the Coachella Valley, where there is a demonstrated serious shortage of primary care doctors,” Olds said. “We plan to add residency training pro-grams in other medical specialties in the years to come.”

The Desert Healthcare District is supporting the start-up of a new family medicine residency training program to accept its first residents in July 2015. From left to right are: Mark Matthews, director; Dr. William Grimm, treasurer; Dr. G. Richard Olds, medical school dean; Glenn Grayman, vice president/secretary; Dr. Michael Solomon, president; and Kay Hazen, director.

The UCR School of Medicine, which enrolled its first 50 medical students in August 2013, has as its mission expanding and diversifying the Inland Southern California physician workforce and developing research and healthcare delivery programs that improve the health of medically underserverd populations. It also sponsors a residency training program in internal medicine and this coming July will start a primary care pediatrics resi-dency “track,” the latter in partnership with Loma Linda University.

UC Riverside Intent on Setting a Green ExampleA remodeled School of Medicine Education Building earns LEED Silver for Environmental Efficiency

By Jeanette Marantos

Most people look at a building and see windows and doors. John Cook, UC Riverside’s director of sustainabil-ity, sees a chance to change the world, one structure at a time.

His latest “conquest” is UC Riverside’s newly remodeled School of Medicine Education Building, the second building on campus to meet the new University of California policy requiring that all new construction and major renovations earn a LEED Silver certification and exceed California’s Title 24 building code for energy ef-ficiency by at least 20 percent.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a nationally recognized benchmark for cost-effi-

cient and energy-saving green buildings, overseen by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council. And when they say “green,” they mean much more than installing insulation and energy-efficient windows.

A LEED certification basically dissects a building and its landscaping to find as many ways as possible to im-prove its energy use and environmental health, such as:

• Checking the building “envelope” to ensure there are no gaps around doors and windows to the outside.

• Installing light-colored “cool roofs” to reflect heat away from the building.

• Replacing high-wattage, incandescent lighting with low-wattage, energy-efficient fluorescent lights.

• Adding drought-resistance landscaping that doesn’t require energy-guzzling maintenance (like regular mowing), but still provides green spaces that keep the surrounding area cooler and more pleasant than expanses of concrete.

• Ensuring the building uses non-toxic paints, adhesives and cleaning supplies, and mixing them on site to cut down the energy required to move large volumes of liquid.

• Using recycled materials for construction and recycling as much of the building waste as possible. UCR recycled 95 percent of the concrete, metal and other waste from the School of Medicine Education Building remodel, and is recycling 99 percent of the waste from its two biggest construction projects—the Glen Mor 2 student housing and the new Student Recreation Center.

That scale of recycling requires some serious planning, and it is slightly more expensive, Cook said, “but the costs were insignificant compared to the savings from not filling up our landfills and producing gases with global warming potential. We’re a state university; we want to serve the state and the world, but we also want to set an example and be a good citizen. The costs have gotten down to where they’re definitely affordable, and we’re certain that what’s going to recyclers is actually being recycled, so partly, we’re doing this just to show it can be done.”

UCR actively began seeking LEED certifications in 2012, and earned its first award—a LEED Gold certificate—for the new School of Medicine Research Building last year. It hopes to earn two more gold certificates for new construction this year with the 800-bed Glen Mor 2 dormitory and the Student Recreation Center, and a gold certificate for operation and maintenance in existing buildings at Glen Mor 1.

“President Janet Napolitano has made the commitment that all University of California campuses will have a net-zero carbon footprint by 2025,” Cook said, “which means all greenhouse gases from associated energy use on campus either be zero, or we offset that energy use by changing our behaviors to conserve or make our use more efficient.”

Installing an 11-acre solar farm later this summer will help UCR achieve its net zero goal by producing an an-ticipated 6.6 million kilowatt hours of solar energy per year, all of which will be used on campus, and over 20 years, reduce its overall electricity costs. But Cook said it’s important to include all the ways sustainability can help when you are looking at the potential savings of going green.

For instance, he said, how many people get lung cancer or other serious diseases from air pollution; how much does it cost to clean up oil seepage at superfund sites, and what are the losses from drought? “There’s also the social impact,” Cook said. “Where does pollution have its biggest impacts? In the less economically developed communities. And who is going to suffer when the grid goes down? Lower income people.”

Cook sometimes gets resistance to green practices, “but that’s OK,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons we have a policy; even if someone’s not comfortable with it, they still have to abide by it, until we can help them see the full value of sustainability. These policies are well-thought-out. The science is there, and what we need to remember is the people who are making these claims about climate change and what the solutions might be are the exact people the University of California educates and employs. Sustainability is not at all separate from the core mission of the university.”

New Faculty Directory Set to LaunchThe 10-year-old faculty directory will be replaced with a new system

By Bethanie Le

On Feb. 21, the current UCR faculty directory (www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu) will be retired and replaced with a new system.

The existing faculty directory is more than 10 years old and is not being updated because most departments maintain a faculty list on their own website.

The soon-to-be deployed faculty directory will look similar in appearance to the old site, but will only display core information such as name, title, email address, and a link to the faculty member’s departmental Web page.

All information for the new faculty directory will be pulled from the UCR enterprise directory (enterprisedi-rectory.ucr.edu) and requires virtually no input or maintenance by campus departments. Enterprise direc-tory coordinators will be responsible for the maintenance of data related to the faculty records.

Other features of the new directory include a responsive design (to be easily viewed on mobile devices) and op-tions to view faculty listings in alphabetical, departmental or organizational order.

To be eligible for listing in the new faculty directory, faculty and academic employees must be active in the en-terprise directory and coded as Academic Senate, Non-Senate Academics or Emeriti.

The new faculty directory is currently accessible for viewing and fact-checking on newfacultydirectory.ucr.edu.

UCPath Celebrates New Office SpacesThe shared services center in Riverside is a major component of the UCPath project

The UCPath center celebrated the completion of its third-floor offices with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Fri-day, Jan. 31. The event was held at 14350 Meridian Parkway in Riverside.

Sen. Richard Roth, Assemblyman Jose Medina and UC Board of Regents Chair Bruce Varner attended the event.

The UCPath shared services center is a major component of the UCPath project, which will provide streamlined and standardized payroll, benefits and human resource processes.

UCPath will replace UC’s 35-year-old payroll/personnel system with a single payroll and human resources technology system, will standardize and streamline payroll and human resources processes systemwide, and will centralize certain human resource/aca-demic personnel and payroll transactional processes with the UCPath shared service center.

UCPath will begin its rollout at UCOP, with the system planned to be fully operational for UCOP employees by Jan. 1, 2015. Other UCs are expected to follow suit soon afterward.

When implementation is complete, the center will have up to 480 employees who will play a role in delivering online and one-on-one as-sistance to all 190,000 UC employees.

UCPath is a high-priority project that is part of the university’s Working Smarter program, which aims to implement operational effec-tiveness and universitywide cost savings as a key tenet of long-term viability.

The third-floor build-out offers low-walled, double-cubicle workspaces that allow for interactive work sessions, as well as huddle areas for small meetings, as well as large, medium and small conference rooms. The building’s green features include large double-paned windows that provide natural daylight, with the indoor lighting system automatically adjusting as needed. The HVAC system and electrical system are located beneath the raised flooring, virtually eliminating the need for ducting and allowing for easier repair and replacement.

Currently there are 48 employees at the center. They are working closely with a team in Oakland to develop tools that will include:

• A case management system with an “Ask UCPath” function for employees and managers, providing faster and accurate routing of questions and service requests.

• A knowledge management system to give employees access to information that is specifically relevant to them.

• A Web portal that will unify self-help tools into a single online experience.

• A system to route calls to the appropriate workgroup.

• An enterprise level document management system for storage, retrieval and maintenance of millions of supporting HR and payroll documents.

Before the third floor was complete, employees worked on the first floor of the building in temporary quarters furnished by the builder.

UCPath Center quick facts:

• UCPath Center staff are assigned to one of five departments: production, employee services, quality and

UC executives Peter Taylor and Aimee Dorr at the UC-Path ribbon cutting with UC Riverside’s Chuck Rowley and Maria Anguiano. PHOTO BY MICHAEL ELDERMAN

performance management, information technology, and human resources. A facilities specialist and health and safety expert are also located on-site.

• In May 2012, UC leaders chose Riverside from among six campuses that submitted proposals to host the center, based on its central Southern California location, which provides the ability to leverage existing UC talent, as well as lower living and housing costs and the availability and condition of space that could be used for the shared service center.

• The center is located about six miles from the UC Riverside campus. Center staff are employees of the University of California Office of the President.

• The three-story, 150,000-plus-square-foot Gold LEED-certified building was completed in 2008 but remained empty until the University of California purchased it in late 2012.

Anonymous Donor Gives $20,000 in Matching Funds for Annual UCR Dance MarathonFeb. 22 event raises scholarship funds for students emancipated from foster care system

By Ross French

For the last two years, the Dance Marathon at UC Riverside has been an evening of students dancing the night away while raising funds for the campus’ Guardian Scholars program, which provides a network of resources to students who are aging out or emancipating from the foster-care system to aid them in their pursuit of higher education.

But for this year’s event, scheduled from 6 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Feb. 22, in UCR Aberdeen-Inverness Dining Hall, the fundraising component has taken on much more significance as an anonymous donor has guaranteed to match the funds raised by students, up to a total of $20,000.

“We have seen some amazing growth in the Guardian Scholars program over the last five-plus years, but this $20,000 challenge grant has the possibility to take our program to a new level of service and security,” said Student Affairs Officer Alyssa Heckmann, an advisor for the event.

Now in its third year, the Dance Marathon isn’t a race or a contest, but a six-hour dance party featuring games, hourly drawings, student performances, and more. Members of the UCR community, including students, staff and faculty, who want to attend must raise a minimum of $25 dollars, either through online fundraising or per-sonal solicitation. Some students form fundraising groups, while others raise money individually.

The Dance Marathon has been a major student-driven fundraiser for the event, raising $17,486.80 in 2013 and $14,734.14 in 2012. But organizers hope that the $20,000 challenge grant will motivate the UCR community to reach that next level.

“We want to get every penny of that $20,000 to help emancipated students here at UCR,” said junior math major Fannie Martinez, director of marketing for the event. “This program can help make a huge difference in the lives of the 70 percent of emancipated teens who want to go to college.”

Martinez added that research shows that less than 1 percent of emancipated students graduate from a four-year university and within 18 months between 40 percent to 50 percent become homeless.

The Dance Marathon is co-sponsored by the Student Alumni Association and Golden Key International. For more information, visit dancemarathon.ucr.edu.

Longtime Supporters Leave $1.3 Million to Botanic Gardens Bequest from Victor and Marjorie Goodman will help ensure UC Riverside gardens’ future

By Iqbal Pittalwala

The Botanic Gardens of UCR will greatly benefit from a bequest of $1.3 million from Victor Goodman, who helped found the gardens, and his wife, Marjorie — both longtime supporters of the gardens.

The only museum on the main campus open on weekends, the Botanic Gardens receive around 40,000 visitors a year. Nestled in the foothills of the Box Springs Mountains on the east side of the UC Riverside campus, the gardens constitute a natural preserve, displaying plants, animals, birds and insects (especially butterflies) that thrive in inland Southern California.

“We are thrilled and grateful that the Botanic Gardens were remembered with such a significant gift,” said Jodie Holt, the divisional dean of agriculture and natural resources in UC Riverside’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. “With it we will be able to bring some key projects to completion and invest in additional maintenance of important plant collections. Additionally, this generous gift will enable us to make significant progress towards realizing the long-range plan and financial security of the UCR Botanic Gardens.”

Victor Goodman was the first botanist hired by UCR’s Division of Life Sciences — later to become the Depart-ment of Biology — in 1954, and was, therefore, a founding faculty member of the College of Letters and Science. He joined the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences in 1978, retiring the following year. He died in May 2011.

Marjorie Goodman started, organized and directed the UCR Bookstore in the student union, her education in humanities and geology serving her well in coordinating campus requirements for published materials across all the liberal arts and science divisions and departments. She died in January 2012.

“The idea for what eventually became the UCR Botanic Gardens was Victor Goodman’s,” said J. Giles Waines, the director of the gardens. “He saw the need for them and proposed that UCR establish the gardens. He and Marjorie lived close to campus and cherished this museum. It comes as no surprise to me that they left their estate to the gardens.”

Victor Goodman was instrumental in having 40 acres on the east side of campus set aside as the Life Sciences Research Area. Subsequently, this area was renamed the UCR Botanic Gardens. A former army officer, Good-man was a skilled administrator and served as an advisor to students. He was an expert in lichens and amassed an extensive photographic documentation of lichens in the Riverside area. He taught a variety of courses in botany, including plant anatomy, plant morphology, plant physiology and field botany.

In 1954 he hired Frank Vasek, a new Ph.D. in plant taxonomy from UCLA, to share the teaching load, particu-larly in field botany. Vasek was appointed the first director of the Botanic Gardens, in 1962. Since Vasek, the gardens have been led by George Gillett (1967 to 1973), Louis Erickson (1973 to 1981), and Waines (1981 to present).

Maintenance of the gardens costs about $100,000 annually. Plans are under way to place the major part of the funds received from the Goodman estate into the Victor and Marjorie Goodman Endowment for the Botanic Gardens, which will help maintain the much-loved gardens in perpetuity.

The Friends of UCR Botanic Gardens Support Group, formed in 1980, has more than 1,000 paying members, and helps raise funds each year to support maintenance and development of the Botanic Gardens. The gardens

also receive some funds from donors.

The Botanic Gardens offer a rich diversity of vegetation, creating a hospitable sanctuary for wildlife. Adult education garden tours and classes are offered in fall, winter and spring. A rose-pruning demonstration is held each January.

The Botanic Gardens and Friends of UCR Botanic Gardens hold two plant sales a year — in early April and late October — with plants for sale typically including water-wise cacti and succulents, California natives, hum-mingbird and butterfly plants, and a host of patio and indoor plants.

The popular Primavera in the Gardens, an annual wine- and food-tasting event, is held in May in the Botanic Gardens, and features offerings from local restaurants and wineries.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 school children visit the gardens annually. Tours of the Botanic Gardens are im-mensely popular. In the summer evenings, the gardens offer twilight tours.

Business School Dean NamedYunzeng Wang, who has been the interim dean, is named permanent dean of the School of Business Adminis-tration

By Sean Nealon

Yunzeng Wang, who has served as interim dean of the University of California, Riverside School of Business Administration since October 2011, has been named permanent dean.

“I’m excited to be able to appoint Yunzeng Wang as dean,” said Dallas Rabenstein, provost of UC Riverside. “He has done an admirable job as interim dean, and I look forward to his continued leadership of the school.”

Since being named interim dean, Wang has overseen the launch of three graduate business programs: a mas-ter’s degree in finance, a master’s degree in accounting and a flexible M.B.A. program. The addition of these programs, along with growth of the traditional M.B.A. program, has nearly doubled the number of graduate students at the school.

He has also significantly increased fundraising, worked to re-engage business school alumni and continued the annual regional economic forecast conference, which drew record attendance and sponsorships in fall 2013.

In addition, he has increased outreach to Inland Southern California. More than 200 area high school students attended the 2013 economic forecast conference. And, in the recent months, the business school has signed agreements with several local companies and public agencies to provide tuition assistance to their employees.

Wang joined the School of Business Administration in 2008 as the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar in Supply Chain Management and professor of finance and management science. He also served as an associate dean in the school prior to becoming interim dean.

Prior to arriving at UC Riverside, Wang was a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and a faculty mem-ber at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wang’s research interests include supply chain management, technology acquisition and adoption strategy,

US-China economic development and trade, stochastic optimization and game theory.

He earned his Ph.D. in operations management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a master’s degree in management sciences from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a master’s de-gree in engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. His undergraduate degree is in electrical engineering from Shandong University in China.

Childish Gambino and Ciara to Headline HEAT Music Festival at UC RiversideThe Neighbourhood, Portugal. The Man, Dzeko and Torres and Madeon also to perform at student-oriented concert

By Ross French

Rapper Childish Gambino, R&B singer Ciara and indie rock bands The Neighbourhood and Portugal. The Man headline the HEAT Music Festival on Saturday, March 1.

Also appearing are a pair of up-and-coming electronic dance music (EDM) talents, Madeon, and Dzeko and Torres. Gates open at 5 p.m. and the music will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

“Heat has always had a good mix of genres, hip-hop, R&B, EDM and indie rock, and I think we have a similar lineup this year,” said Todd Wingate, director of the Highlander Union Building.

A total of 10,000 tickets will be given away to UC Riverside undergraduate and graduate students with a cur-rent student I.D.

In addition, 2,500 “affiliate tickets” are on sale through the HEAT website. The tickets, which cost $28.50 each, must be picked up by a staff, student or faculty member with a current UCR I.D. Affiliate ticket-holders will not need to show a UCR I.D. to enter the concert. There is a limit of two affiliate tickets per person. UCR Alumni Association members will be able to purchase tickets as well and will need to present their UCRAA membership card and a photo ID when picking up them up.

Wingate said that as is the case with past festivals, this year’s lineup came as a result of student feedback.

“This is a student-driven event. We put out a survey during the summer asking what artists students would like to see and received 3,500 responses. We ranked the results, then looked at the artists in terms of availability, cost, and the reality that they would play here.”

Another issue is the nearby Coachella festival, which limits some of the performers. “Anybody playing at Coach-ella is contractually limited and can’t play here,” he said, adding that a huge EDM concert in Australia also pulls some performers away.

The festival will see some significant changes from recent years, most notably that it is now a stand-alone event rather than a part of the Homecoming celebration. This change means fewer conflicts with UCR athletics events and more parking for visitors.

In addition, the festival will feature two large stages, rather than the one large and two smaller stages of past years.

“We just outgrew the HUB Plaza space, so we will have one stage on the HUB lawn and another near Pierce Hall,” Wingate said.

Finally, there will not be a beer garden at the show. “This is a student-oriented event and the majority of stu-dents who will be attending are not of legal age to drink,” Wingate explained. “We chose to invest the funds we would have spent on the beer garden to enhance the experience for everyone.”

Once again the UCR trollies will be running from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. to help guests get back to their homes or cars following the concert.

The performers for the 2014 HEAT Music Festival are:

Madeon

The 19-year-old French EDM performer gained international popularity in 2011 when his video “Pop Culture” exploded on YouTube. He has performed at the Coachella festival, the Ultra music festival in Miami, Lolla-palooza in Chicago and the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York. He also served as the opening act for Lady Gaga during her Born This Way tour. He appeared on three tracks on her 2013 album “ARTPOP.”

Ciara

The 28-year-old R&B singer, songwriter and producer will come to HEAT as she finishes work on her sixth album. She is known for her beautiful soprano voice and sassy vocals. Her 2013 album, eponymously –titled “Ciara,” was well received, reaching No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 weekly chart.

Dzeko & Torres

Julian Dzeko and Luis Torres are an EDM duo from Toronto, Canada, who spent 2013 touring throughout North America, including stops at Coachella, Tomorrowland and Ibizia festivals.

The Neighbourhood

Also known by the abbreviation THE NBHD, the alternative rock group from Newbury Park, Calif., released their first full-length album “I Love You” in 2013. Their single, “Sweater Weather,” reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Alternative Chart in June 2013. The stop at HEAT is part of their spring tour.

Portugal. The Man

These indie rock veterans hail from Wasilla, Alaska. Their most recent album, the 2013 release “Evil Friends,” was produced by Danger Mouse and is the band’s seventh studio album. It reached No. 9 on Billboard’s Alter-nate Rock Chart and 28 overall.

Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino is the stage name of actor, comedian and hip-hop artist Donald Glover. Perhaps best known for his role on the NBC sitcom “Community,” Glover’s hip-hop music stands on its own, touching on subjects including bullying, suicide, addiction, romance and family. His most recent album, “Because the Internet,” was released on Dec. 10, 2013.

UCR to Commemorate History with 9th Annual Tuskegee Airmen CelebrationBy Konrad Nagy

On a chilly April afternoon in 1945, three Tuskegee airmen walked into an all-white Officers’ Club in Seymour, Ind. and began what would become known as the Freeman Field Mutiny. There were 162 black officers arrested over the next 48 hours as they peacefully protested military segregation by entering the Officers’ Club. This protest and its aftermath put forces in motion that ultimately led to the desegregation of the Armed Forces by President Harry S. Truman in 1949, and served as a model and forerunner for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

UCR will celebrate the Tuskegee airmen’s fight for desegregation and their accomplishments during the Ninth Annual Tuskegee Airmen Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Orbach Science Library Rotunda. This year’s celebration is themed “The Tuskegee Airmen: Mutiny at Freeman Field.”

At the event, a panel of Tuskegee Airmen and a keynote speaker will recall personal stories of their historic desegregation protest at Freeman Field, their arrests and the aftermath, and the circumstances that led to the protests. The special program will be held at UCR to honor the Tuskegee Airmen and celebrate Black History Month.

The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required due to limited seating. To make a reser-vation, submit a registration form by visiting library.ucr.edu/view/tuskegee/rsvp.html.

Guests will have an opportunity to greet and take photographs with the participating Tuskegee Airmen during a reception after the program.

Members of the distinguished panel of Tuskegee Airmen on the program will include Flight Officer Robert Mc-Daniel of Texas, who was among the second wave of officers arrested for refusing to sign the segregation order. He will be joined by Lt. Col Jefferson Anderson of Michigan, one of the few living 33 Tuskegee Airmen captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. Lisa Bratton, professor of history at Tuskegee Uni-versity and former researcher with the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project, will be the keynote speaker.

Ruth M. Jackson, director and co-founder of the Tuskegee Airmen Archive at UCR, estimates that only 11 of the original Tuskegee Airmen officers who were a part of the Freeman Field protest may still be alive.

“Most surviving airmen within the group of 162 arrested are in their early to late 90s,” she said. “This is a golden opportunity for the audience to touch base with living history while we still have them with us and pos-sibly for the final time.”

“The UCR Libraries is honored to be able to be a part of preserving the legacy of arguably the greatest men and women of the Greatest Generation,” said Steven Mandeville-Gamble, university librarian. “The Tuskegee Airmen fought not only for their country but also for the human dignity of all Americans. Their dedication and sacrifices challenged the discrimination of the day and ensured and expanded the civil rights of all people in the United States.”

The program begins at 1:50 P.M. with a flyover by a fully restored P-51 plane in recognition of the legacy of the Tuskegee airmen, through the generosity of film star Tom Cruise. The plane, flown by Cruise’s private pilot, will circle the UCR campus three times, tipping its wings to salute the airmen. The P-51 was the fighter plane most heavily used by the airmen during World War II for European missions.

UCR is the home of the largest archive about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women of the Tuskegee Experience in a public research university in the U.S. Founded in 2005, the archive houses personal papers, selected military papers, diaries, photographs, posters, oral histories, books, media, and memorabilia that document the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and women in relation to their impact on American, multicultural, military, aviation, and civil rights history; and their many contributions to the fabric of American life.

GETTING PERSONAL: Nancy Moreno FrischJob: Administrative Assistant

By Konrad Nagy

Nancy Moreno Frisch has been at UCR almost 14 years — first as a temporary worker, then as an administrative assistant in Corporate and Foundation Relations. These days, she works in the Office of Development in Hinder-aker Hall, where she sits in the front reception area and greets students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors and help them get to where they need to be on campus. Most of her work involves directing students and previous UCR students to the Student Services building. “I also do various travel reimbursements through Accounting’s iView system,” she says.

What have you enjoyed most about working at UCR?

Working with our student workers. They always have a refreshing, positive attitude and are so very, very smart! It’s nice to know that in working with the students over the years I have played a small part in helping them achieve their academic goals.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I enjoy reading and thumbing through catalogs, taking care of my home, and constantly letting my cat, Maple, in-side and out of the house. My favorite author is John Grisham, but I have yet to read his latest book, “Sycamore Row.”

Do you have hobbies?

I’m a rockhound. I collect gems and minerals, and I love to go to gem and mineral shows. My husband even gave me a rock tumbler for Christmas! I dabble in jewelry-making and I enjoy going to rock concerts as well.

What personal accomplishments are you most proud of?

Getting married in 2003. Actually getting engaged was a milestone, and then setting a date was a miracle! My husband, Manny, is a hard-working structural engineer, and has been for over 30 years. (I think he inspected a building at the UCR Physics Department a few years ago.)

I’m also proud of the fact that my dad made me take typing classes all four years of high school! Speaking of my dad — he’s always has been my mentor in my life, and I’m proud to be his daughter.

DID YOU KNOW? Chancellor’s Town Hall on Feb. 19

Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox will hold a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the HUB 302. The discussion will also be webcast in real time at chancellor.ucr.edu for those who are unable to attend in person. (The link will not be active until the event starts.)

If you have questions and comments for Chancellor Wilcox to address at the Town Hall meeting, email them to townhall@ucr.edu.

On Getting Reimbursed for Travel Expenses

A traveler most be at least 40 miles from the headquarters or home, whichever is closer, to be reimbursed for an overnight stay. This is regardless of the length of the business trip. Any request for an exception must docu-ment the circumstances and need for the exception. For more on UC travel regulations, go to policy.ucop.edu/doc/3420365/BFB-G-28. If you have travel-related questions, email travelfeedback@ucr.edu.

UCNet Website to Replace At Your Service

UCnet is one of three new websites developed by UCOP Communications as part of a strategic initiative to im-prove the information, tools and resources offered to UC employees and retirees via the Web. At UCnet, UC fac-ulty, staff and retirees can get timely news and information to stay abreast of what’s going on around the univer-sity; find information about benefits and policies; gain easy access to personal benefits information; and access university news and resources.

Everyone is encouraged to explore the site and send feedback via ucnet@ucop.edu.

Who Says?UCR staff and faculty weigh in on the issues of the day via media outlets at home and abroad

“Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence, and this is only the second known instance anywhere in the world. ... This could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature geothermal projects in the future.”

Wilfred Elders, professor emeritus of geology, on the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project and how its success can lead to the world’s first volcano-powered form of electricity

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

“Parents go to work all day, they come home, they’re tired and then they have to help kids with homework, they have to shuttle them to soccer practice and dance class and music lessons. I think it’s safe to say that the family today in the United States is extremely overwhelmed and pushed to the limit.”

Karen Pyke, associate professor of sociology, on the busy lifestyle of the modern American household

THE DESERT SUN

“You don’t see Pakistani and other non-Indian South Asians active and involved in California politics the way you do in New York and at the national level.”

Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate professor of political science, on the rarity of Ali Sajjad Taj winning a seat on the Artesia City Council last November as Indian-American politicians are not dominant in Los Angeles County

KPCC-FM

“It’s important to keep your mood up because it can help you avoid everything from gaining extra pounds to feeling lethargic.”

Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology, on the benefits of a positive attitude during the winter

ABC NEWS

“Invasive annual grasses from the Mediterranean have a greater growth response to nitrogen than most native species, and are crowding out native plants. Grasses also produce fine, flashy fuels that cause more fre-quent and larger fires ... .”

Edith Allen, professor of plant ecology, on how high nitrogen levels are harming native vegetation and increasing fire risk

PHYS.ORG

“The fallout may be felt on grocery shelves throughout the country in the coming months as prices of arti-chokes, celery, broccoli and cauliflower could rise at least 10 percent.”

Milt McGiffen, Cooperative Extension vegetable crops specialist and plant physiologist, on how the Cali-fornia drought may affect food cost

BLOOMBERG NEWS

“These types of studies continue to advance the safety of biological control for suppressing populations of invasive pests thereby greatly reducing reliance on pesticides for control.”

Mark Hoddle, extension specialist of entomology, on the success of a 2011 test where UCR entomologists attempted to control the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest that spreads the lethal citrus disease called huanglong-bing, by releasing its natural enemy, the Tamarixia radiata wasp

SCIENCE DAILY

“These chemicals are more dangerous than secondhand smoke because they age and when they age, they have reactions with the environment and they make more dangerous chemicals. They get more toxic over a prolonged period of time.”

Manuela Martins-Green, professor of cell biology, on the dangers of thirdhand smoke, which is the accu-mulation of secondhand smoke chemicals on surfaces like curtains, clothing and carpet

DAILY FREE PRESS

Research and ScholarshipTen Graduate Students in Art History to Take Part in Exchange Program with FAU-Erlangen

Ten graduate students in art history will visit Germany this summer as part of a developing exchange program with the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU-Erlangen). It is the first time art history students from UCR will have made an excursion to Europe, an activity that Jeanette Kohl, associate professor of art history, hopes will be the first of many.

“It’s important for our students to start early in their career to network internationally,” Kohl said. “I hope our students will keep the transcontinental connections they make throughout their careers. It can be a very formative experience.”

It also will provide students an opportunity to improve their German language skills, a requirement of UCR graduate students in art history.

The 10-day trip in June will be the first to Europe for most, if not all, of the students, Kohl said, and would not be possible without funding for airfare and hotels provided by Michael Pazzani, vice chancellor for re-search; Stephen Cullenberg, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; and Dallas Raben-stein, executive vice chancellor and provost.

Erlangen became a Riverside Sister City in 2011, and the following year UCR signed a memorandum of un-derstanding with FAU-Erlangen to exchange scholars, researchers, and students.

Twelve art history graduate students from FAU-Erlangen visited UCR in October 2013 for a workshop in which M.A. and Ph.D. students from both universities presented their research.

In Germany, UCR students will participate in a one-day workshop in Erlangen, and will visit the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the capital of German Renaissance Art as well as historical sites in the cities of Bamberg, Wuerzburg and Frankfurt. Kohl and Kristoffer Neville, assistant professor of art history, will pres-ent a public lecture at the German-American Institute in Nuremberg.

The excursion is meant to be the beginning of an ongoing exchange between both departments and their students, Kohl explained, and may also involve the exchange of individual graduate students studying at FAU-Erlangen for a semester or two. Faculty from both universities also are discussing a collaborative project that may focus on the arts and culture of Southern California, perhaps with a focus on photography that would involve the UCR/California Museum of Photography, she added.

“This is something I’ve wanted to do since I came to UCR five years ago,” Kohl said. “It makes a real differ-ence to be able to be in a museum and see a painting. You see it with different eyes. You see the brush strokes, you see the labor involved. It creates new points of discussion.”

Awards and HonorsSchool of Medicine Faculty Member Honored by American Physiological Society

Declan McCole, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2014 S&R Foundation Ryuji Ueno Award for Ion Channels or Barrier Function Research, an early career pro-fessional award administered by the American Physiological Society.

The award recognizes an individual demonstrating outstanding promise based on his or her research in wound healing, tissue remodeling, and/or organ regeneration. Dr. McCole’s research focuses on the intestinal epithe-lium, a single layer of cells that plays a critical role in human health. Intestinal epithelial cells are critical for the breakdown and uptake of nutrients, for absorption and secretion of electrolytes and water, regulation of im-mune function, communication with the intestinal microbiota and protection from pathogen infection.

The S&R Foundation Ryuji Ueno Award includes $30,000 in funding to support Dr. McCole’s research labo-

ratory. The S&R Foundation Ryuji Ueno Award, established in 2007, is named to honor the support of Ryuji Ueno, M.D., Ph.D., Sachiko Kuno, Ph.D., and the S&R Foundation. Drs. Ueno and Kuno are founders of Su-campo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and S&R Foundation, both based in Bethesda, Md.

McCole will be recognized by the American Physiological Society at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April. He joined the UCR medical school in February 2013.

UCR Athlete to Serve as Keynote Speaker at UCR’s 99 For Title IX Celebration

UC Riverside Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Jim Wooldridge announced on Jan. 31 that UCR gradu-ate and three-time All-American Brenda Martinez will serve as the keynote speaker at this year’s 99 For Title IX fundraiser. Martinez is the first U.S. woman to medal in the 800m at the World Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

The event is being held at the home of Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox and Diane Del Buono on Feb. 26. The cost to attend the event is a minimum donation of $99, which will include an evening of food and fellowship and a number of live auction items such as a four-course gourmet dinner, golf lessons from Jen Dolph, PGA Head Golf Professional at Canyon Crest Country Club, and a wine-tasting party for up to 20 at Chris Kern’s Forgotten Grapes.

Video by UC Riverside Lab Receives Honorable Mention in International Competition

A video produced by the lab of Zhenbiao Yang, professor of cell biology, received an honorable mention in the highly acclaimed International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The award was presented by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science.

The competition was conducted in 2013. The winning entries are in five categories: Photography, Illustration, Informational Poster and Graphics, Games and Apps, and Video.

Yang was joined by UCR’s Geoffrey J. Harlow, Shou Li, Albert C. Cruz and Jisheng Chen in producing the video.

UCR Medical School Official Awarded National Faculty Scholar Award

Michael N. Nduati, M.D., associate dean for clinical affairs in the UCR School of Medicine, is one of seven recipients nationally of the 2014 New Faculty Scholar Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation.

The award recognizes outstanding leadership potential in the area of family medicine education and sup-ports Nduati’s participation in the 2014 spring conference of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, in May. The society has a membership of nearly 5,000, including medical school faculty, resi-dency program faculty and directors, and physician preceptors involved in family medicine education. Family medicine physicians provide primary medical care to people of all ages.

Nduati, in addition to helping develop the clinical arm of the UCR School of Medicine, is director of the school’s Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience (LACE), an innovative three-year component of the medical school curriculum that provides students a longitudinal “practice” embedded within the primary care clinics of the school’s affiliated health care partners.

LACE is designed to give medical students a “continuity-of-care” experience with a panel of patients while at the same time developing skills in research and evidence-based medical practice. UCR medical students are paired with physicians at several Riverside County family care centers, Riverside Medical Clinic, Kaiser Perma-nente sites in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and Riverside Physicians Network.

“We are proud of Dr. Nduati’s leadership in developing this innovative curriculum feature of the UCR medical school and so pleased that he is being recognized nationally for his work in medical education,” said G. Richard Olds, M.D., vice chancellor for health affairs at UCR and dean of the medical school.

“I am honored and humbled by this recognition,” said Nduati, also an assistant professor of family medicine in the UCR medical school. “This is validation that, in medical education, we can create new and innovative programs to prepare the physicians of the future and provide health care best suited to the post-Affordable Care Act world.”

Nduati joined the UCR School of Medicine in 2011. He earned his M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed residency training at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. He also holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

GSOE Members Recognized

Three members of the Graduate School of Education will receive a national award for a journal article called “Effects of cognitive strategy interventions and cognitive moderators on word problems solving in children at risk for problem solving difficulties.”

Professor Lee Swanson, Assistant Professor Michael Orosco and Catherine Lussier, an academic coordina-tor at the Graduate School of Education, will receive the Kirk award, which recognizes excellence in profession-al journal articles that have been published in Learning Disabilities Research & Practice.

They will be honored at annual Council for Exceptional Children conference from April 9 to 12 in Philadel-phia.