Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, spoke about Dining Services' efforts to promote healthy eating and address wellness issues for its 16,000 meal plan students during the first-ever Worlds of Healthy Flavors Asia conference held Nov. 30 at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore.
The conference was hosted by he Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health's department of nutrition, in conjunction with the Health Promotion Board of Singapore and the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) recently awarded Thomas Maresca, assistant professor of Biology, the 2013 R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology for his “elegant cell biological approaches to the study of spindle assembly and dynamics during mitosis, resulting in important contributions to our understanding of force and signaling at kinetochores.” Maresca will present a lecture titled “Stepping into a Tense Relationship: Mechano-molecular Regulation of Cell Division by Force” at the AAA annual meeting in 2013.
Professor Lixin Gao of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department has been selected as a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), an honor achieved by only 1 percent of that organization. She was cited by the ACM “for contributions to network protocols and internet routing.” Gao now becomes the first faculty member in the ECE Department to earn selection as a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the ACM.
Thomas R. Schneeweis, the Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, was honored Nov. 29 by the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) with its inaugural Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research.