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Reich working on $2.5m project to study dengue fever in Thailand

Biostatistician Nicholas Reich of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, an expert in statistical modeling of infectious disease data, is part of a team that recently won a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop and extend statistical and modeling methodologies to correct for biases in surveillance data. Specifically, he and colleagues will collaborate with Thailand’s Ministry of Health to study patterns of dengue fever there. Reich will receive about $700,000 of the total grant.
 
Dengue fever, a viral infection

Krauthamer discusses new book at UN, Smithsonian

Barbara Krauthamer, assistant professor of History, gave a talk about her new book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery,” on March 21 at the United Nations.
 
She also spoke March 25 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
 
Jan. 1 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Krauthamer’s new book features more than 150 historical photographs and examines the ways black Americans used photography to document and preserve the history of slavery, emancipation and freedom from the 1850s through the 1930s.

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Toong is panelist on promoting health benefits of seafood

Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, was a panelist on “Promoting the Health Benefits of Seafood” on March 12 during the International Seafood Show in Boston.
 
Toong talked about UMass Dining Services and the health benefits of consuming sustainable seafood  and some of our health and wellness initiatives in serving and educating students and customers.
 
The discussion was hosted by the Consulate General of Canada’s Boston office.
 

Aelion elected secretary/treasurer of ASPH

C. Marjorie Aelion, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS), has been elected to the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) board of directors and to serve as secretary/treasurer for a two-year term.
 
Secretary/treasurer is one of two elected positions within the ASPH, the other being chair. Aelion also was selected to be a member of the Board Governance Committee that includes the deans from Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of California, Berkeley; University of North Carolina, University of Michigan, and University of Oklahoma.

Nagurney presents seminars in Sweden and Austria

Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, recently delivered invited seminars in Gothenburg, Sweden and in Vienna.

She spoke March 4 in the Optimization Seminar Series at the Chalrmers University of Technology in Gothenburg on "Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Supply Chain Networks: From Analysis to Design."

On March 12, she delivered the seminar "Perishable Product Supply Chains in Healthcare: Models, Analysis, and Computations" at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, as part of the lecture series of

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