CAMPUS NOTES

The Coastal Housing Partnership’s last seminar this year on how to finance a home purchase in Santa Barbara County is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 15, in Goleta. UCSB employees are eligible to attend, but reservations must be made in advance. The seminars, which offer a step-by-step guide to purchasing a home, are given each year in different locations. Details are available by calling the housing partnership at 969-1025.

Bruce Bimber, associate professor of political science, has won the 2003-04 Don K. Price Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on science, technology, and politics for writing "Information and American Democracy: Technology and the Evolution of Political Power" (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Ronald E. Rice, professor of communication, has been voted president-elect of the International Communication Association, which has 3,500 scholar-members in 65 countries. He is codirector of the Center for Film, Television, and New Media and holds the Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication.

Timothy J. Cooley, assistant professor of music, discusses the music culture of mountain people in his new book "Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians" (Indiana University Press, 2005).


Jati Sengupta, professor of economics, has published an examination of innovation in modern high-tech industries, titled “Competition and Growth: Innovations and Selection in Industry Evolution” (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2004).

Otis Dudley Duncan, professor emeritus of sociology, died on Nov. 16 as a result of prostate cancer. The Texas native was 82. He taught quantitative methods for sociological research in universities such as Penn State, Wisconsin, Chicago, Michigan, and Arizona before coming to UCSB in 1984. He retired in 1987, resuming a life-long interest in music, though with computers and electronic instruments. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice; two sisters; and a daughter.

Rita Rivera Ornelas, a recently retired assistant coordinator in rape prevention education at the Women’s Center, died at home on Nov. 18 from breast cancer. The Santa Barbara native was 51. A first-degree black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, she and her husband, Vincent, taught a self-defense and empowerment form of martial art throughout the country for years. Her association with UCSB began in 1974, halted in the late 1980s, and resumed in 1990. She is survived by Vincent, two children, three sisters, a brother, and her father. Donations may be made to the Santa Barbara Breast Resource Center.