FAREWELL
FROM DEAN BERNSTEIN

San Diego has been my home for nearly 20 years. It is thus quite poignant for me to anticipate exciting new duties and challenges as the senior vice-president and provost of Tulane University. My great sadness at leaving UCSD is tempered by enormous admiration and pride as I reflect upon what has been accomplished in the Division of Arts and Humanities. A truly robust momentum characterizes all our departments and programs; I earnestly believe we can look forward to greater and greater triumphs and achievements in the months and years ahead.

We are most fortunate that, pending formal approval by the university regents, the extremely competent and talented Eric Van Young, professor of History, has agreed to serve as interim dean of Arts and Humanities. He comes on board this July to collaborate with our tremendously skilled and wonderfully dedicated divisional staff. A nationwide search for the next permanent dean will be conducted during the 2007-08 academic year. It has been my great privilege to serve the division as its chief academic officer. To you all, I send my very best wishes and a warm farewell. So long!

 

Michael Bernstein, Dean

 

Prebys Music Center

Local philanthropist and music lover Conrad Prebys has made the vision for a new Music Center at UCSD a reality and has given the complex his name.

Seamless Costuming

Tony-winning designer Judy Dolan, professor of Theatre and Dance and associate dean of the division, discusses her latest, award-nominated collaboration with Harold Prince, now on Broadway.

Art Detective Heads CISA3

A groundbreaking new center that blends art and science is being led by renowned high-tech “art detective” Maurizio Seracini, a UCSD alumnus and real-world Da Vinci Code character.

Targeting a ‘Masterterrorist’

Historian and Africa specialist Jeremy Prestholdt considers the failed search for an al-Qaeda operative in Somalia and Kenya.

A Symphonic Appointment

Acclaimed percussionist and Music faculty member Steven Schick has been appointed music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.

Developing the Division

Alumna Kimberly L. McCartney has joined the division with the primary goal of further involving friends, donors and the greater community with the arts and humanities at UCSD.

Sci-Fi Workshop Lands

The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, the nation’s oldest and most respected program of its kind, has a new home in the division.

The work of Visual Arts MFA candidates is on view in Santa Monica through June 3.

The Music Department continues its concert season in June with showcases of guitar students, chamber ensembles and jazz improvisation.

San Diego modern dance pioneer and retiring faculty member Jean Isaacs directs her last annual showcase of original student choreography, We Dance/Our Dances.