Sandra P. Daley, associate chancellor at the University of San Diego was recently awarded $25,000 by the California Wellness Foundation, and honored as a 2010 Champions of Health Professions Diversity. Daley advocated for academic enrichment programs that targeted disadvantaged youth in middle school and beyond. She along with Stanford University’s Ronald D. Garcia, and U.C. Berkeley’s Jeffrey S.

Ali Ollie Woodson, lead singer of the Motown quintet the Temptations, died of cancer recently in Los Angeles. He was 58.

Woodson was born as Ollie Creggett, on Oct. 12, 1951 in Detroit. He sang with the Temptations from 1984 to 1986, and then again from 1988 until 1996, when he began performing as a solo artist. Woodson also worked closely with Aretha Franklin and Bill Pinkney of The Drifters.