Becky Lockwood, associate director of the Center for Women & Community, is one of 23 people in the country being recognized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) for their outstanding work to end sexual violence.
Each April as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the NSVRC gives its Visionary Voice Awards to outstanding individuals nominated by state, territorial and tribal coalitions. Lockwood was nominated by Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.
The Center for Women & Community houses the rape crisis center for survivors of
Sally Campbell Galman, associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, presented a lecture April 24 with the Gender and Education Association at London South Bank University’s Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research.
Maria Tymoczko, professor of Comparative Literature, presented a public lecture on “Translation and the New Science of Mind” on March 15 at the University of Hyderabad in India.
Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, will be an invited panelist at The New York Times 2013 Energy For Tomorrow Conference on April 25 in New York City. The theme of the conference is Building Sustainable Cities. The conference will be opened with an address by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Professor Manisha Sinha of Afro-American Studies is scheduled to give a keynote address on April 27 at “Maine in the Civil War,” a public symposium at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.