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VOL. 24. NO.1 AUGUST 12, 2003

Names and Faces

HUZZAH

The Anderson School has appointed Alfred E. Osborne Jr., associate professor of global economics and management, to the position of senior associate dean. He is responsible for overseeing a variety of key areas and initiatives within the school, including development, alumni relations, career and corporate initiatives, career management and executive education. Previously, Osborne served as director of the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.... James D. Cherry, professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children’s Hospital, was awarded the 2003 Distinguished Physician Award by the Council of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. The award honors Cherry’s 40 years of work in the field.... The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression has awarded research grants totaling $300,000 to five scientists at UCLA. The following investigators will each receive a Young Investigator grant of $60,000 over a two-year period for research in diverse areas of neuroscience: Carrie Bearden, Vera Chesnokova, Charles Glatt, Katherine Narr and Desmond Smith.

APPLAUSE

Brain surgeon and scientist Linda Liau has won the Kimmel Translational Science Award to further her search for genetic mutations associated with deadly brain cancers. Liau, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher and an assistant professor of neurosurgery, will receive $200,000 over two years from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research.... Nga Nguyen-Scott, administrative director of international programs at the School of Public Policy and Social Research, was decorated by the French government and made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services rendered to French culture and education. The Palmes Académiques was established in 1808 by Napoléon I and is the most prestigious decoration an aca-demic can receive from the French government.... Richard Roll, Japan Alumni Chair in International Finance at The Anderson School, won the Nicholas Molodovsky Award for his significant influence on financial theory and practice. The award is given annually by the Association for Investment Management Research, a nonprofit organization of 100,000 investment practitioners and educators.

IN MEMORIAM

Walter A. Fogel, former UCLA professor of organizational behavior and an expert on labor economics issues, died of cancer on June 25. He was 70.

Fogel was active on the faculty of The Anderson School for 25 years and wrote eight books, among them “The Equal Pay Act” in 1984. He was a prolific contributor to scholarly journals and wrote often on illegal immigrant workers, including “Mexican Illegal Alien Workers in the United States,” published in 1978.

A native of Fargo, N.D., Fogel earned a bachelor’s degree from North Dakota
State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He served in the Army in Puerto Rico and played on championship basketball teams in college and in the Army.

A talented athlete, Fogel placed fifth in the 1998 Senior National Hardcourt Tennis Tournament in Santa Barbara. During that competition, he defeated former professional champion and Wimbledon player Whitney Reed.

The family has asked that memorial contributions be made to Hospice Care of Boulder and Broomfield Counties, 2594 Trailridge Drive East, Suite A, Lafayette, CO 80026, or Heifer International, P.O. Box 8058, Little Rock, AR 72203.

Donald Benjamin Lindsley, co-founder of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute and a pioneer in the study of human brain waves, behavior and information processing, died of natural causes on June 19. He was 95.

Lindsley, a professor of psychology, physiology and psychiatry at UCLA, used an interdisciplinary approach in brain-behavior research to provide major contributions to the understanding of normal and abnormal functioning of the brain during sleep-wakefulness, perception, emotion, learning and development.

He was one of the first scientists to use the newly discovered technique of electroencephalography, or “EEG,” to record electrical brain activity. During his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University at the height of the Depression (1933-35), Lindsley himself served as the subject for the premier public demonstration of EEG to the American medical community. He later carried out the initial investigations of changes in the EEG in the developing brain.

Lindsley was born in Brownhelm, Ohio, and attended nearby Wittenberg College. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Iowa. After appointments in pediatrics at Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio; psychology at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; and neurophysiology at Bradley Hospital in Providence, Lindsley became professor of psychology at Northwestern University in 1946.

In 1951, Lindsley joined the faculty at UCLA’s new medical school. Along with fellow professors Horace Magoun, Charles “Tom” Sawyer, John Douglas French and Theodore Bullock, Lindsley co-founded UCLA’s world-renowned Brain Research Institute in 1959.
Lindsley’s retirement in 1977 was celebrated by a major conference on “Neurophysiology and Psychology: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.” He recently donated his lifelong accumulation of papers, letters and meticulously identified photographs to UCLA’s Neuroscience History Archives.

Lindsley’s commitment to the recognition and advancement of young scientists was memorialized by Albert and Ellen Grass, with whom he had collaborated in the development of electrophysiology since 1935. The Society for Neuroscience, through the support of the Grass Foundation, awards the Donald B. Lindsley Prize each year to the author of the most outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the area of behavioral neuroscience.

The Lindsley family requests that donations be made to the Lindsley Memorial Fund. Checks may be made to the UCLA Foundation, with the notation “Lindsley Memorial Fund,” and sent to Ken Hurd, Director of Neuroscience, UCLA Medical Science Development, 10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 3132, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

Joseph Michael (Mike) Senko, longtime UCLA employee in the Office of the Chancellor, died at home in Camarillo, Calif., on July 6. He was 85. Born in Trenton, N.J., Senko graduated from Trenton High School and soon afterward enlisted in the Army. He advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel, serving in Germany, Japan and Korea. After retiring from the Army in 1961, he attended Los Angeles City College and then UCLA, receiving his bachelor’s degree in political science in 1964. He immediately began work in UCLA’s Office of the Chancellor as a facilities planner, a position he held until his retirement 19 years later. In his later years he moved from Woodland Hills to Camarillo and enjoyed golfing, traveling, reading and spending time with his family. Donations may be made to Camarillo Hospice at 400 Rosewood Ave., Suite 102, Camarillo, CA 93010.