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David Newton, �鶹avӳ����ý professor of entrepreneurial finance, will be interviewed on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360,” Friday, June 16, at 7 p.m., for a special series Cooper is doing on top entrepreneurs of the 20th century who have literally changed American life as we know it.

�鶹avӳ����ý’s co-production of “King Richard II” took top honors at the 14th annual Independent Theater Awards, Monday, May 22. The Shakespearean play won four awards, including direction by John Blondell and performance by Mitchell Thomas. Playwright Erik Ehn also won an award for “The Saint Plays,” performed by �鶹avӳ����ý students in Porter Theatre last March.

ESPN and ABC Basketball Analyst Steve Lavin will speak next month at �鶹avӳ����ý’s 15th annual Golf Marathon Sports Banquet and Golf Outing. The former UCLA head basketball coach will speak on Sunday evening, June 4, at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, as a kickoff to a fundraiser aimed at providing scholarships for �鶹avӳ����ý athletes.

The Sunday night banquet, hosted by �鶹avӳ����ý, is a precursor to an all-day golf marathon at La Purisma Golf Course on Monday, June 5.

�鶹avӳ����ý Provost Shirley Mullen has accepted the position of president at in New York. She will remain at �鶹avӳ����ý through December 2006 and take up her new responsibilities in January 2007.

�鶹avӳ����ý closes out the Reynolds Gallery season with a celebration of California’s beauty through a special invitational show featuring some of the region’s finest landscape painters. “Views and Visions: Celebrating California,” will be at the gallery from Thursday, May 18, through June 30. An opening reception will be held Thursday, May 18, at 4 p.m.

To honor outgoing �鶹avӳ����ý President Stan D. Gaede, the college has renamed the Institute for the Liberal Arts at �鶹avӳ����ý the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at �鶹avӳ����ý. The college has also completed funding toward its initial goal for the institute. David Eaton, who chairs the college board of trustees, made the announcement May 5.