Kenneth D. Cashin, 91, of Lexington, professor emeritus of Chemical Engineering, died April 6.
Born in Lowell, he attended Worchester Polytechnic Institute in 1940, but left to join the U.S Navy Radio and Radar Unit in 1944. He returned to WPI in 1946 to complete his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
He joined the faculty in 1948 as an assistant professor and initiated what became the Department of Chemical Engineering. During a sabbatical year he completed his work for a doctorate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
From 1968-70, he took a leave of absence to establish the chemical
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.
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.
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel, assistant professor of Music, made his debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall on April 5, performing music by Holliger, Ravel, Honegger and Beethoven.
Associate professor Emery Berger of the School of Computer Science has won a Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award, which includes a $25,000 grant, for his work on a system to automatically find errors in spreadsheets.