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O’Brien’s poem published in The New Yorker

“Crustaceans,” a poem by English professor Peggy O’Brien, appeared in the April 8 issue of The New Yorker.
 
O’Brien is the author of two collections of poems, “Sudden Thaw” and “Frog Spotting.” She is also the editor of the “Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry” and a book about Seamus Heaney and other Irish poets called “Writing Lough Derg.”
 
 
 

Obituary: Irving Howards, professor emeritus of Political Science

Irving Howards, 87, of Amherst, professor emeritus of Political Science, died April 8.
 
Born in Milwaukee, he was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D.
 
He joined the Political Science faculty in 1965 and served as director of the Bureau of Government Research, assistant to the chancellor and president and coordinator of Public Affairs.

Hayes gives ASECS presidential address

Julie Candler Hayes, professor of French and dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, gave the presidential plenary lecture on April 5 during the annual meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

Hayes was elected vice president of ASECS in 2011 and served as the organization’s president in 2012-13. The topic of her lecture, which stems from an ongoing book project on 17th and 18th-century women writers, was “Philosophical About Marriage: Women Writers and the Moralist Tradition.”

Baran honored for contributions to audiology journal

Jane A. Baran, professor and chair of Communication Disorders, was awarded the 2013 JAAA Editor’s Award on April 4 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) in Anaheim, Calif.
 
The award, which was presented to Baran at the academy’s honors and award banquet, recognizes her outstanding contributions to the peer review of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology.

Obituary: Pauline Collins, first librarian of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Pauline P. Collins, 92, of Amherst, retired librarian of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, died April 4 at the Hospice at the Fisher Home in North Amherst.

Born on April 4 in Sylva, N.C., she graduated from Cullowhee High School in 1938. She developed an early interest in Spanish and Spanish-American literature at Western Carolina University and Duke University, which led to a master’s degree at Duke and a doctorate in romance languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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