Class Notes: 1987
Gary C. Williams ’72 (Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences) and Michele M. Masuda ’87 co-authored A Guide to the Corals of Alaska, the most current and comprehensive guide to 161 cold-water corals in Alaska, including the extraordinarily rich Aleutian Islands. The 416-page guide provides a profile for each coral species, including photos, characteristics of the coral, taxonomic history, biology, ecology, habitat, and geographical and depth distributions. The guide also includes a newly described species, Flabellum (Flabellum) oclairi Cairns, 2023, a cup coral collected near Amchitka Island in the Aleutian Islands. This versatile guide will prove invaluable for species identification in the field and lab as well as appeal to the lay reader who may be curious of the rich and colorful communities in the depths of Alaska. A Guide to the Corals of Alaska by Robert P. Stone, Stephen D. Cairns, Dennis M. Opresko, Gary C. Williams, and Michele M. Masuda. 2023. NOAA Professional Paper NMFS. Available online https://doi.org/10.7755/PP.23
Nominated by a student, Latina visual art high school teacher Susana Fattorini received a Public Service Award from Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell in 2022 during Hispanic Heritage Month, for writing the class Art & Culture, which recognizes and celebrates diverse and living artists in the curriculum, as well as a focus on exploration and expression of self identity, and of visual art as a tool for social justice. Inspired by the framework of Ethnic Studies, the class was A-G approved by the University of California for the “F” art requirement.
Elizabeth Moore is the new Chief Communications Officer at UC Hastings as of February 1, 2022. She previously worked as the Director of Communications for Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
