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Eileen Strempel Named Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost University of San Diego President James T. Harris III, DEd, announced in February that Eileen Strempel, PhD, will be the university’s next vice president for academic affairs and provost, effective July 1, 2025. Strempel comes to USD following her tenure as the inaugural dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, with faculty appointments in both the School of Music and the School of Education and Information Studies. “USD’s mission and commitment to foster peace, work for justice and lead with love deeply resonates with my heart and my scholarship in higher education,” Strempel said. “These themes are central to USD’s new strategic plan, and I look forward to working with President Harris and the entire campus community on bringing the plan and its important goals to fruition.”

Yoshiko Nagara-Kozu, Peace is the Moment, Red and White Tulips . Acrylic on canvas, 194cm x 324cm.

PEACE AND HEALING THROUGH ART

Nami Kozu Satow ’84 stands in front of one of her mother’s paintings, which hangs in the Palomar Health Student Wellness Center.

USD alumna Nami Kozu Satow ’84, daughter of Hiroshima bombing survivor and professional artist Yoshiko Nagara-Kozu, gifted the university seven of her late mother’s paintings. Satow came to campus in February and held a meaningful conversation with Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies Dean Darren Kew about the importance of peace, healing and art. Satow is an accomplished artist and former TV news anchor in Japan. Through the donation, she hopes to advocate for peace by sharing her mother’s story and message through art.

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