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| Chemistry Professor Receives Top Military Award for Life-Saving Gauze
 Galen Stucky received a Department of Defense award for developing QuikClot
Combat Gauze, which promotes the instant clotting and sealing of a wound.
UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his
role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers
who suffer life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He received the Department of Defense’s Advanced Technology Applications
for Combat Casualty Care Award in August.
“In retrospect, this project has meant more to me than any other that
I’ve worked on for the past 40 years. The most important aspect of this
work is the thought that it is providing life support that is needed on an immediate-response
basis to both military and civilian personnel,” Stucky said.
In 2004, Stucky and his colleagues were asked by the Office of Naval Research
to work with Z-Medica to improve its zeolite-based substance, QuikClot hemostatic
agent, which promotes instant clotting and sealing of the wound until the injured
can be taken to medical facilities. QuikClot, though effective in stanching blood
flow, had the potential to cause second-degree burns around the wound. Stucky
and his UCSB research team developed a “cooler formulation” of the
product, eliminating the possibility of heat generation that existed in the first-generation
formula.
Z-Medica also markets a civilian version, QuikClot 1st Response, which is
becoming standard equipment with emergency providers nationwide, and QuikClot
Sport and QuikClot Sport Silver, which are becoming popular with outdoor adventurers.
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| LabRATS Win National Award
UCSB’s Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS) received the
Organization Award at the first-ever Go Beyond Awards in San Jose, Calif. The
awards honor individuals, organizations, projects, and laboratory manufacturers
that “go beyond” the status quo to minimize the environmental impacts
of laboratory and other high-technology facilities and laboratory equipment.
Allen Doyle, manager of the soil ecology lab at UCSB, and other volunteers focus
on the following sustainability programs:
• Free chemicals.
• Mercury based thermometer exchanges.
• Bulb-free lighting.
• Fume hood management.
• Laboratory assessments
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UCSB Establishes Graduate Program
in Feminist Studies
The University of California has approved a proposal by UC Santa Barbara to establish
a graduate program in feminist studies that offers Master of Arts and doctoral
degrees. The women’s studies program now has become the Department of Feminist
Studies. UCSB’s Feminist Studies department is one of only two within the
UC system and one of only 15 or so at public universities across the country.
The Feminist Studies graduate program has three areas of emphasis, including
race and nation, genders and sexualities, and productive and reproductive labors.
The program’s first graduate students are expected to enroll for fall quarter
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GIVING
 Organic Chemist and Spouse Endow a Professorship in Materials
UC Santa Barbara has received a $1 million gift from UCSB organic chemist Fred
Wudl and his wife, Linda, to endowa professorship in materials science in the
College of Engineering. The Wudl Chair will support the teaching and research
of an outstanding materials scholar with interdisciplinary research interests
that would merit a joint appointment in the life or physical sciences.
Private Giving to UCSB Reaches $81.4 million in 2007-08
Alumni and friends of UC Santa Barbara contributed a record $81.4 million in
philanthropic gifts and pledges to The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara during 2007-08.
In terms of private giving, the fiscal year that ended June 30 was the campus’s
most successful ever, exceeding the fundraising achievement of the previous year
by more than $10.5 million. With this extraordinary show of support, the campus
has surpassed the $500 million milestone in The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara.
UCSB received a total of 19,139 individual gifts last year.
UCSB Physicist and Spouse Establish Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics
UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from UCSB Physics Professor Guenter
Ahlers and his wife, June, to establish an endowed chair in experimental physics,
his area of academic expertise. The Ahlers Chair will support the teaching and
research of an outstanding scholar specializing in the subfield of soft condensed
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FACULTY AWARDS
Tommy Dickey, UCSB oceanographer — Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval
Operations Chair in Oceanographic Sciences
Joseph Polchinski, professor of Physics, permanent member of the Kavli Institute
for Theoretical Physics at UCSB — 2008 Dirac Medal
Melvyn Semmel, professor in Gervitz Graduate School of Education — Edward
A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2008-09
Elizabeth Witherell, editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry
D. Thoreau — Thoreau
Society Medal
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| FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Brian Fagan, professor emeritus of Anthropology — “The Great Warming:
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations” (Bloomsbury Press,
2008)
Gaston Espinosa and Mario T. Garcia, professor of History—“Mexican
American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture” (Duke University
Press, 2008)
Michael S. Gazzaniga, professor of Psychology and director of the UCSB SAGE Center
for the Study of the Mind — “Human: The Science Behind What Makes
Us Unique” (Ecco, 2008)
Patricia Cline Cohen, a professor of History at UCSB — “The Flash
Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York” (The University of Chicago
Press, 2008)
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