Community Briefs

Friday, January 29, 1999

Community Briefs

Persian art display

to come to Hammer

The first major exhibition to explore visual arts in Persia
(modern-day Iran) during the Qajar Dynasty, "Royal Persian
Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925" focuses on extraordinary
large-scale court and popular religious paintings and will be
presented at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural
Center from Feb. 24 through May 9, 1999.

Organized by Layla S. Diba, Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic
Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, with Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar, senior
research associate, the exhibition includes more than 100 works, on
loan from 36 internationally renowned private and public
collections in seven countries.

After its presentation at the UCLA/Hammer Museum, the exhibition
will travel to the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, where it will be presented from July
through September 1999.

Program appoints new director

Sean L. Swezey, an entomologist and associate director of the UC
Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, has
been named the new director of the systemwide UC Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education Program.

The announcement was made today by Henry J. Vaux, Jr., associate
vice president of programs for the University’s Division of
Agriculture and Natural Resources. Swezey begins his duties Feb.
1.

"I am pleased to welcome Dr. Swezey as the new director of the
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. He emerged
as the top-rated candidate after a prolonged search for new
leadership in SAREP," Vaux said.

"He has an impressive record of working with a wide array of
growers, scholars and county-based Cooperative Extension personnel.
All of these people have given him high marks and indicate that
they are looking forward to working with him as the new director of
SAREP."

SAREP was established in 1987 as the first sustainable
agriculture program at a U.S. land grant university.

The program provides support for research and educational
outreach activities that encourage California farmers, farmworkers
and consumers to produce, distribute, process and consume food and
fiber in ways that are economically viable, sustain natural
resources and biodiversity and enhance quality of life.

For the time being SAREP will continue to be located at UC
Davis.

Swezey takes the reins from Robert J. Reginato, who served as
SAREP’s interim director since July 1998.

William Liebhardt, the program’s first director left SAREP in
June 1998 to return to extension work in the UC Davis Department of
Agronomy and Range Science.

UCSF partners

with local high school

With a ceremonial signing Thursday the future of health care and
medical education in the Central San Joaquin Valley took a step
into the new millennium, establishing the Health Professions
Preparatory Academy at Fresno’s newest high school, Sunnyside High
School.

"The Academy is a true community partnership. It represents the
joining locally of the finest educational and medical interests
available anywhere," said Dr. Katherine Flores, director of the
UCSF-Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research.

A partnership has been created by Flores, that includes UC San
Francisco; the UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program; Fresno
Unified School District; Fresno County Office of Education; the
Partnership for Health Professions Education; and California State
University, Fresno (CSUF).

Compiled from Daily Bruin wire reports.

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