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The Center is one of the first facilities at a major research university where faculty members from the arts, humanities, and social sciences collaborate to teach and conduct research on film, television, and mass media from a variety of cultural, historical, and social perspectives.
Major gifts for the Center include $3 million from television producer Marcie Carsey (The Cosby Show) and $2 million from television producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order). Other major contributions include $2 million from Joseph and Helene Pollock, after whom the Pollock Film Theater will be named, and $1 million from Academy Award-winning actor and UCSB alumnus Michael Douglas, to be commemorated by naming the lobby in his honor.
The Carsey-Wolf Center is seeking $10 million by Fall 2009 for equipment and program start-up costs,including the development of the Environmental Media Initiative, Media Ownership Project, year-round programming in the Pollock Film Theater, the Media Internship Project, and to respond to new and innovative initiatives. Please contact Nicole Klanfer, Assistant Dean of Development, Humanities and Fine Arts, for futher information.
 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building
The Carsey-Wolf Center and Pollock Theater will be part of a new building complex which also includes the Social Sciences and Media Studies Building. This building will house some of the College’s most important and prestigious academic departments: the highly-ranked Communication and Sociology Departments, the pioneering Film and Media Studies Department, the innovative Global and International Studies Program, and two leading research centers–the Center for Information Technology and Society, and the Social Science Survey Center.
Faculty and students in these departments and centers will have access to new research and teaching labs, conference rooms, and research spaces, and students will benefit from the building’s multi-media and general-purpose computer labs, which will facilitate collaborative learning for many courses. Other facilties include production labs for animation, film and video; a sound stage; screening rooms (including the Scott and Jennifer Frank Screening Room); seminar rooms; and a film and video library and archive.
The entire complex building complex (which also includes the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education)—as well as the individual buildings and their facilities, a central outdoor mall, patios and terraces, and a new boulevard—all offer visible and important naming opportunities to donors committed to helping UC Santa Barbara complete this important building complex. In supporting this effort, donors will see their names associated in perpetuity with UC Santa Barbara’s growing tradition of excellence.
Please contact Nicole Klanfer, Assistant Dean of Development, Humanities and Fine Arts, or Carroll Deason, Director of Development, Social Sciences, for further information.
 Established in 2005 with a seed gift of $3.5 million from SAGE Publications, this dynamic interdisciplinary research center brings together scholars from a broad range of academic disciplines in the arts and humanities, social sciences, the sciences, and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind. This pioneering effort is led by Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, who is widely regarded as the founder of the cognitive neuroscience field. The SAGE Center is one of the first facilities at a major university where researchers collaborate across disciplines to explore human mental processes from a variety of perspectives: analytical, cultural, historical, philosophical, mathematical, scientific, and social. The Center expands the study of the mind beyond the traditional mind-science disciplines of biology, chemistry, psychology, medicine, and neuroscience to create new opportunities for exploration and discovery. In addition, the SAGE Center's Distinguished Visiting Scholar program brings the foremost researchers to UCSB to study the brain and the mind and participate in seminars and conferences.
The Center has an immediate goal of raising an additional $7 million over the next several years to support equipment, capital and programmatic needs, including the new Brain Imaging Center, which could be named in recognition of a leadership gift toward this goal. For more information, please contact Valerie Otten, Assistant Dean of Development, Engineering and the Sciences.
The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering has an ambitious program of interdisciplinary stem cell research and teaching, to support collaboration and exchange of ideas among a wide range of disciplines and provide a platform for growth in the emerging field of regenerative medicine. More than 30 faculty members across the UCSB campus will be engaged in this Center representing diverse fields such as molecular and developmental biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, chemical and mechanical engineering, computer science, physics and the humanities.
The Center will feature lectures by a combination of UCSB faculty and visiting luminaries, such as include Professor James Thomson, University of Wisconsin and UCSB Adjunct Professor (the first to grow hES cells), Michael West (founder of Geron and CEO of Advanced Cell Technology), and UCSB Psychology Professor Michael Gazzaniga (member of the Presidents Council on Bioethics). Additional graduate courses focused on bioengineering and systems aspects of stem cell research are also envisioned. At the undergraduate level, lab exercises will also be added to existing biology and engineering courses, with an emphasis on new methods of active learning.
The Center will have access to state-of-the-art facilities for research and teaching and will act as a catalyst for faculty recruitment. The Center also will serve as a platform for collaborations with other institutions and companies such as the Burnham Institute, Stanford University, The Wicell Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Advanced Cell Technology Inc., and cDNAmicroarray, Inc. The Center will administer the training grant at UCSB funded by CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine) and fellowship support will be sought from other funding agencies and donors. The Center also will endeavor to communicate the significance of its mission to the public through hosting professional conferences and facilitating lectures to reach out to local lay audiences, which will be broadcast on UC TV and local access cable.
The Center has a major funding goal of $7 million over the next several years to endow the Center, which also offers a unique and socially relevant naming opportunity for potential donors. This endowment will support a position for the Laboratory Director, who will oversee the proposed training and research activities, and will also support the day-to-day operation of the core stem cell laboratories, as well as provide for essential administrative staffing. Additional gifts in the $500,000 to $1 million range would fund endowed chairs in stem cell biology and postdoctoral research fellowships; capitalizing on the opportunity to recruit leading researchers from other states. Grants and contributions will also be sought to support capital improvements, with a target of $5 million, to renovate new faculty labs and support facilities.
For more information, please contact Valerie Otten, Assistant Dean of Development, Engineering and the Sciences.
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