Russell L. Chapman, M.S., Ph.D. '73, was appointed executive director for the Louisiana State University Center for Coastal, Energy and Environmental Resources. Former chair of the university's plant biology department, he had served as interim director of the center as well as associate vice chancellor for research and economic development.

Clifford M. Krowne co-wrote the 1995 edition of Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, volume 92 (Academic Press), as well as the 1997 edition of volume 98. He lives in Virginia and has a 17-year-old son and 15- and 13-year old daughters.

Nancy East, M.S., D.V.M. '78, M.P.V.M. '80, a professor at UC Davis' School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 1996 California Sheepman of the Year Award from the California Wool Growers Association. East was recognized for her contribution to advances in animal health and preventive medicine. She has been a faculty member at UC Davis since 1984.

Philip Dubois will leave his current post as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte to assume the presidency of the University of Wyoming in Laramie in April. In addition to being an alumnus, Dubois worked at UC Davis in 1976-1991 as political science professor, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and executive associate dean for Letters and Science.

Judith M. Puncochar received her Ph.D. in educational psychology in September from the University of Minnesota where she is now the director of the human relations program. She is also the president of her own company, InterAction Success, in St. Paul.

Laura (Cangello) McWeeney has been appointed deputy counsel to the treasurer of the state of Maryland. She lives in Annapolis, with her husband and daughters.

Bob Stern, a professor of geosciences at the University of Texas in Dallas, descended to 5,400 meters below sea level in the Western Pacific last December aboard a Japanese research submarine. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Melissa Fenton '74, and children Ryan, 19, Rebecca, 16, and Alexis, 13.

Susan E. Walsh received her doctorate in education in December from the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, administered jointly by UC Davis and California State University, Fresno. She is currently the director of the Learning Resources Center at Merced College.

Sarah Burns, M.A., a professor of fine arts at Indiana University, has written Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (Yale University Press). In the book, Burns recounts the story of artists in American society during the transition from Victorian to modern values. She examines the influence that the media, European models and gender dilemmas had on the artists of the time.

Henry Louis Cavagnaro Jr. is in the midst of a three-year position with the Engineering Field Division-Mediterranean, located near Naples, Italy, of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He heads the project management division and is working to relocate a major support site out of the floor of a volcanic crater. He and his wife, Susan L Hamilton Cavagnaro '77, write that they and their children, 12-year-old Elizabeth and 3-year-old Hank, are enjoying this "experience of a lifetime."

Eric Seaborg and his wife, Ellen Dudley, have written their second book, American Discoveries: Scouting the First Coast-to-Coast Recreational Trail (The Mountaineers Books), which tells of their travel experiences on their 14-month, 4,835-mile journey across the continental United States. Bill Sprotte '76 also joined the scouting team from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean.

Stephen E. Clarke is a "master black belt" in information management operations with General Electric-Plastics in Pittsfield, Mass. He teaches and consults on improvement techniques and statistics.

Kathryn L. Hall-Boyer is on the faculty of the emergency medical program at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. She lives in Duluth, Ga., with her husband, Bill, their three boys, Garry, 12, Craig, 10, Kurtis, 5, and her stepson, Adam, 18.

Daniel A. Mandel was appointed vice president of revenue services in the Great Lakes region for Service Corp. International, an owner and operator of funeral homes and cemeteries.

Curtis Lineberger was elected to the Riverbank City Council in November.

George Palma, M.D., is a neurologist at Kaiser Permanente in Roseville. He lives on a small farm in Loomis with his wife, Sheree, and two children, Nicholas and Cassandra Joy. He writes, "My interests include computers, writing, running and trying to deal with the vegetation that never seems to stop growing on my land."