Professor emeritus of Art Jack Coughlin will sign his books at White Square - Fine Books & Art in Easthampton on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 5-7 p.m.
Limited edition signed prints from Coughlin's extensive portrait collection of literary figures and musicians will also be for sale.
"A Brush with the Blues: 26 Portraits," a visual and verbal tribute to famous blues artists, grew from a collaboration between Coughlin and Steve Tracy, professor of Afro-American Studies. The book is a collection of portraits of blues musicians, with accompanying text by Tracy.
Coughlin's prints, drawings and
The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) recently awarded Thomas Maresca, assistant professor of Biology, the 2013 R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology for his “elegant cell biological approaches to the study of spindle assembly and dynamics during mitosis, resulting in important contributions to our understanding of force and signaling at kinetochores.” Maresca will present a lecture titled “Stepping into a Tense Relationship: Mechano-molecular Regulation of Cell Division by Force” at the AAA annual meeting in 2013.
Professor Lixin Gao of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department has been selected as a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), an honor achieved by only 1 percent of that organization. She was cited by the ACM “for contributions to network protocols and internet routing.” Gao now becomes the first faculty member in the ECE Department to earn selection as a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the ACM.
Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, spoke about Dining Services' efforts to promote healthy eating and address wellness issues for its 16,000 meal plan students during the first-ever Worlds of Healthy Flavors Asia conference held Nov. 30 at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore.
Thomas R. Schneeweis, the Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, was honored Nov. 29 by the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) with its inaugural Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research.
Paige Warren, associate professor of Environmental Conservation, is the co-editor of a recently published book from the University of California Press, “Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation.” Her co-editor is ecologist Christopher Lepczyk of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The book collects views of leading researchers on cities, one of our most “under-studied environments,” Warren notes.
Gretchen Gano, a lecturer with the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA), is speaking Dec. 6 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars In Washington, D.C., about engaging the public in evaluating technology use in science and in social decision-making.
Three Architecture faculty members have projects in the "Be Local Build Local" exhibit, on view through Dec. 15 at the A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main St., Northampton.