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2006
Irvine
Telecommuter surpasses walking goalAnn Whitmer telecommutes from her home in Mason, Mich., yet she managed to become the first staff member in the Step Up UCI walking program to reach the 1.5 million-step milestone. See: http://today.uci.edu/Features/profile_detail.asp?key=227
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Researcher leads aircraft cargo screening pilot program
Howard Hall, program leader for Countermeasures Test Beds at LLNL, joined
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, and other dignitaries in June to announce
a pilot program to screen passenger aircraft cargo for explosives. The program,
a collaboration with LLNL, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation
Security Administration, launched in August at San Francisco International
Airport. For more information see: http://www.llnl.gov/pao/employee/articles/2006/06-23-06-newsline.pdf
Berkeley Lab
Engineer’s models become works of art
Robin Lafever’s drawings and models of satellites, gamma-ray detectors
and other devices are works of art. See: http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2006/May/06-model-citizen.html
UCLA
Professor leads New Orleans mental health project
On August 8 and 9, UCLA’s Vickie Mays, professor of psychology and
director of the Center for Research, Education, Training and Strategic Communications
on Minority Health Disparities, led a national effort to provide mental health
training to New Orleans residents. Among the project’s offerings were
free workshops to parents, caregivers and teachers on how to recognize signs
and symptoms of mental disorders in children. For more information, see www.today.ucla.edu/2006/060627news_mentalhealth.html
Santa Cruz
Prof’s work part of de Young Museum’s Chicano Art exhibit
Gustavo Vazquez, assistant film and digital media professor at UC Santa
Cruz has a video installation showing at San Francisco’s de Young Museum
through October 22 as part of Chicano Now: American Expressions—Chicano
Encounters, a traveling multimedia exhibition inspired by actor Cheech Marin.
See: currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/07-17/Vasquez.asp
