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Toong is panelist on promoting health benefits of seafood

Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, was a panelist on “Promoting the Health Benefits of Seafood” on March 12 during the International Seafood Show in Boston.
 
Toong talked about UMass Dining Services and the health benefits of consuming sustainable seafood  and some of our health and wellness initiatives in serving and educating students and customers.
 
The discussion was hosted by the Consulate General of Canada’s Boston office.
 

Aelion elected secretary/treasurer of ASPH

C. Marjorie Aelion, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS), has been elected to the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) board of directors and to serve as secretary/treasurer for a two-year term.
 
Secretary/treasurer is one of two elected positions within the ASPH, the other being chair. Aelion also was selected to be a member of the Board Governance Committee that includes the deans from Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of California, Berkeley; University of North Carolina, University of Michigan, and University of Oklahoma.

Nagurney presents seminars in Sweden and Austria

Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, recently delivered invited seminars in Gothenburg, Sweden and in Vienna.

She spoke March 4 in the Optimization Seminar Series at the Chalrmers University of Technology in Gothenburg on "Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Supply Chain Networks: From Analysis to Design."

On March 12, she delivered the seminar "Perishable Product Supply Chains in Healthcare: Models, Analysis, and Computations" at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, as part of the lecture series of

Hernández awarded William M. LeoGrande book prize

José Angel Hernández, associate professor of History, is a winner of the inaugural William M. LeoGrande Prize for the best book on U.S.-Latin American Relations published during the 2011-12 academic year. The award is given by the School of Public Affairs and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington, D.C.
 
Hernández was recognized for his work, “Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” published by Cambridge University Press.

Obituary: Wilfried Malsch, professor emeritus of German

Wilfried Malsch, 88, of Amherst, professor emeritus of German, died March 12.
 
Bornin Karlsruhe am Rhein in Germany, he was captured by American troops in Natuno, Italy, during World War II. As a prisoner of war in Alabama and later in Pennsylvania he developed his love and respect for America as a place of tremendous change and endless hope.
 
A constant thread throughout his life from then on was both his fear of economic depression that led to Fascism in Germany and his hatred of war in general.

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