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 Elana Edelstein, Assistant Director of Communications, Marketing and Foundation, was recently named the 2007 Community Development Vice President for the California Jaycees, a leadership training and community service organization for young professionals. Over 40 chapters are located throughout the State of California, and Elana will assist each of these chapters in coordinating projects geared to making life better in their communities, from establishing playgrounds for children to large-scale fundraising efforts. She will also help chapters run US Jaycees Nationwide Chapter Projects in conjunction with chapters from coast to coast.

Prof. Osheen Keshishian, EOPS, participated in a two-day conference on “The Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean” held at UCLA on March 17-18, 2007. Keshishian's topic was “The Armenian Press in India Since 1794.”

An article submitted by Allison Kolpas, Sid Kolpas' older daughter, will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The article, based on her research for her doctoral dissertation, is entitled “Coarse-grained analysis of stochasticity-induced switching between collective motion states”; it is a mathematical analysis of flocking/swarming/schooling behavior involving systems of partial differential equations. Allison discovered new numerical methods for solving such systems of equations to model fish schooling behavior. She is the principal author, along with Dr. Jeff Moehlis of UCSB and Dr. Ioannis Kevrekidis of Princeton, both professors of Applied Mathematics and members of her Ph.D. Committee.

Lynn Pomeroy (Math department) reports that her daughter, Erica Pomeroy, was the lead field investigator for the Food and Drug Administration on the E.coli spinach contamination last fall, working out of a command center in the Salinas Valley. Lynn's son, Noah Pomeroy, continues to work as a marine debris scuba diver for NOAA through the University of Hawaii at locations such as Hawaii's more remote islands and Guam. Both kids are UC grads. &

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