George H. Reed Jr., 82, of Mansfield, retired head of Environmental Health Services at Environmental Health and Safety, died March 26 at Southeast Rehabilitation Center in North Easton.
Born in Wilmington, Del., he received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He joined EH&S in 1966 and retired in 1998.
He leaves his children, Dawn Leifer and David Reed, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Friday, March 29 at 11 a.m. at the Douglass Funeral Service, Amherst.
Emery Berger, associate professor of Computer Science, delivered an invited talk on “Programming with People: Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation” at the European Joint Conferences on Theory & Practice of Software (ETAPS) held March 22 in Rome.
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.
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.