Gift Helps Establish Center for Film, Television and New Media
UC Santa Barbara has received a leadership gift of $2.5 million from the Carsey Family Foundation to support the construction of a Center for Film, Television and New Media.

The new center will provide state-of-the-art facilities and equipment capable of studying everything from silent films to the latest in digital media and satellite communications. It will be 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 perspectives.

An additional $15 million in private support is being sought for the center, which is scheduled to break ground in 2005.

More information is available from Constance Penley, director of the center at (805) 685-4843; penley@filmstudies.ucsb.edu.

Residence Hall Opens in Time for New Year

Manzanita Village, the newest addition to the housing program at UCSB and the first new dorm built on campus since 1968, welcomed its first residents in time for the start of school in September. Situated on bluffs with ocean, mountain and lagoon views, the new complex will house 800 UC Santa Barbara undergraduate and graduate students. The $65.2 million project also included renovation and expansion of Carrillo Dining Commons, which is adjacent to the complex.