At its spring meeting, the USF Board of Trustees elected the following six new members:

Alfred S. Chuang, a USF undergraduate alumnus and Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer of BEA Systems.

Jon Fuller, S.J., M.D., an associate professor of medicine at Boston University and an international authority on the clinical treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Lawrence R. O'Connor, M.D., a USF undergraduate alumnus and director of the Cardiac Fitness Center and Prevention Services at Glendale Memorial Hospital.

Patrick B. O'Leary, S.J., Ph.D., a former Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity and Faculty-Staff Chaplain at Seattle University.

Steven P. Westly, a former vice president at eBay and a member of the Business Advisory Council since 1989.

Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco, an international banker, industrialist and insurance executive who has served as ambassador from the Philippines to Japan and the People's Republic of China.

The board re-elected the following incumbent trustees: Maureen A. Clark, Lawrence A. Del Santo, Seiyu Kiriyama, Gerdenio Manuel, S.J., John McCarry, S.J., Adrienne Riley, Gordon R. Smith, and Timothy Waters.

Other Board Action: The board authorized the School of Business and Management to begin architectural design of a business school complex on its current site.

The board also voted its support for Paul Murphy as director of the Saint Ignatius Institute and indicated that it will review his annual reports on the SII's progress. (for related story)

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Oakland's mayor to celebrate Oakland campus. Mayor Jerry Brown will join University President Stephen Privett in celebrating USF's Oakland Regional Campus and its 25 years of education in the East Bay. The celebration will be held on the east bay campus Friday, April 20, 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

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Top math scholar joins USF faculty. John Stillwell of Australia will begin teaching in spring 2002. His appointment will significantly raise the visibility of USF in the mathematics community.

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Chapels win award. Three renovated chapels in the St. Ignatius Church were recently recognized with a "Best of the Bay" California Honor Award by a jury of architects commissioned by the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Theatre production to feature former inmates: The Good Person of Setzuan will feature USF students and ex-offenders and survivors of violent crime who embrace the arts as a means to change their lives. It runs April 5-8 and 19-22.

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Media Matters: The University has had huge success recently increasing the visibility of Latino faculty in the Latino press, including:

Eduardo Mendieta, philosophy, on Univision International (which is broadcast to millions of people in the U.S. and across Latin America) on an overweight girl in state custody.

Julio Moreno, history, was featured on KGO-TV, Radio Unica, Telemundo (San Jose), Univision (Sacramento and San Francisco) on the Mexican president's visit to California. In Feburary, he was featured on Univision (San Francisco), Telemundo (San Jose) and KPIX-TV on President Bush's visit to Mexico.

Luis Murillo, business, was featured on Telemundo (San Jose) and in the April issue of LatinFinance on Guatemala and its monetary conversion to American dollars. LatinFinance is a monthly publication with circulation to 34 countries.

He was also featured on Univision International on consumer confidence.

Pamela Balls Organista and Rebecca Cameron, psychology, were interviewed about bulimia by Nuevo Mundo (a sister publication of the San Jose Mercury News, published for the Latino community in the Bay Area).

Esther Madriz, sociology, was featured in a special report on women and fear on Univision International. She was also interviewed by Radio Unica on the San Diego school shootings.

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