Henry A. Lea, 92, of Amherst, professor emeritus of German, died April 4 after a long illness.
Born in Berlin, Germany, he and his brother, Rudolph, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1934 after the Nazis took power. In 1938 he graduated as first honor man from Philadelphia’s Central High School and won the Mayor’s Scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania.
Shortly after completing his bachelor’s degree in 1942, he joined the U.S. Army and became one of the Ritchie Boys, a special military intelligence unit made up mainly of German-speaking immigrants trained at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.
Research professor of Chinese E. Bruce Brooks presented an informal talk on Lau Dan, the supposed author of the still wildly popular classical Chinese text, the Dau/Dv Jing, for a student and faculty audience at the University of Oregon, followed by a formal version at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, on March 15 in Portland, Ore. 
Chemist Jeanne Hardy has won the seventh annual Armstrong Fund for Science Awards, which this year is granting $30,000 over two years to encourage transformative research that introduces new ways of thinking about pressing scientific or technical challenges. Hardy will be recognized at the Honors Dinner for invited faculty on April 29.
Six faculty members have been named Family Research Scholars for the 2013-14 academic year by the Center for Research on Families (CRF).