Judith (Wilkinson) Todd, 71, of Amherst, alumna and former assistant controller for rants and contracts, died May 9 at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, after a long illness.
She was a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River and received her bachelor’s degree Mathematics from UMass in 1963. She married Robert Torla later that year.
After teaching in Somerset, she earned a master's in Accounting from UMass and then joined the Controller’s Office, where she worked until 1988.
In 1981, she married David Todd.
She leaves her husband, David, her sons Michael Torla of
Medical zoologist Stephen Rich of the Microbiology Department was an invited speaker on May 16 at the annual Lyme Disease Physicians Forum sponsored by the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension and the Cape Cod Lyme Disease Task Force.
Professor Andrea R. Nahmod of Mathematics and Statistics has been awarded a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation. 
Distinguished Professor Robert Hallock of the Physics Department was recently elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences (MAS) along with 17 other Bay State scientists; all were recognized at a reception at Boston’s Museum of Science. Academy peers identify candidates for fellowship based on their significant professional achievement in scientific research or science education.