Financially needy nontraditional and re-entry students at UCSB are eligible to apply for one of five book scholarships, each worth $200, sponsored by the Professional Women's Association and the UCSB Bookstore. Deadline for completed applications is 5 p.m. on Nov. 26; e-mail requests for applications to Pam Allen pallen@housing.ucsb.edu . Details are also available from John Berberet (x4521).

One of the best places from which to see the main campus is atop Storke Tower, and now weekly tours of the carillon will provide more people the chance to enjoy the vistas. Carillon recitals have also resumed each week, announced Anne Rothfarb, academic personnel specialist in economics. For tour reservations, call Rothfarb at x3569.

Roger H. Davidson, visiting professor of political science and former UCSB faculty member and administrator, has been awarded the John Marshall Chair in Political Science at the University of Debrecen in Hungary.

Howard Giles, professor of communication and a reserve officer in the Santa Barbara Police Department, has been honored with the 2000 Reserve Advisor's Award for service. It is his second from SBPD in the five years he has been in the reserve.

James P. Kennett, professor of geological sciences, has received the Shepard Medal for "Excellence in Marine Geology" from the Society for Sedimentary Geology.

Ronald W. Tobin, associate vice chancellor, Academic Programs, has been elected an honorary member of Italy's Seminario de Filologia Francese due to his "outstanding contributions to French studies." He also was recently invited to review the findings of a British governmental evaluation of research productivity by university French departments around the United Kingdom.

Rosalie Briley, a recently hired assistant in the Office of Development, was an administrative assistant with McGhan Medical Products. She is a native Santa Barbaran.

Henri J. Fenech, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died on Nov. 3, 2001; he was 76. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a French mother and Maltese father, he earned graduate degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT, where he also taught. Joining UCSB in 1969, he helped found what is now known as the Chemical Engineering Department. Upon retirement in 1991 he had been named "Outstanding Professor" six different years by his peers. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Inger, two daughters, five grandsons, and a granddaughter.