Kathleen M. (Wasielewski) Prentice, 61, of Trout Creek, Mont., alumna and former principal clerk in the News Office, died April 25 at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont.
Born in Greenfield, she went to brown University, Boston University and UMass Amherst, where she earned a master’s degree in Special Education.
She began her campus service as a junior clerk and stenographer in the English Department and held clerical positions in language departments before moving to the News Office. She resigned in 1990 to pursue her graduate studies.
After obtaining her degree, she taught in
Distinguished Professor Robert Hallock of the Physics Department was recently elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences (MAS) along with 17 other Bay State scientists; all were recognized at a reception at Boston’s Museum of Science. Academy peers identify candidates for fellowship based on their significant professional achievement in scientific research or science education.
School of Education professor Sharon Rallis of the Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, was an invited distinguished seminar faculty member at the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy Research in San Francisco on April 26-27.
Professor Steve Tracy of Afro-American Studies will make the second of five Chinese government-sponsored trips to Central China Normal University in Wuhan as a Chu Tian Scholar from May 11 to July 16.