Janet M. Fleury, 85, of Amherst, a former junior clerk/stenographer in the Placement Office, died Nov. 29.
Born in Holyoke, she grew up in Hadley, where she attended local schools. She graduated from Northampton Commercial College.
She worked on campus from 1947-61.
She leaves her husband, Horace (Leo) Fleury, her daughter Lori and son-in-law William Saylor of Hadley; her son Timothy Fleury and daughter-in-law Patricia Halpin of Sunapee, N.H., and daughter-in-law Maria Fleury of Jacksonville, Fla., and six grandchilden.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday, Dec.
Alexander C. Schreyer, assistant director and lecturer of the Building and Construction Technology (BCT) program and faculty member in the Architecture +Design Program, has released a book on SketchUp, a popular three dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) software, titled “Architectural Design with SketchUp.”
The Modern Language Association of America is awarding its 32nd Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize to English professor David Fleming for his book From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957–1974, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. 
Anthropology professor Elizabeth S. Chilton was an invited presenter at the meeting of the Study Group on the Heritage Status of Aboriginal Cultural Property, sponsored by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) and hosted Nov. 11-14 at the University of Barcelona. The topic of the meeting was “Indigenous Cultural Heritages and Sustainable Development” and the title of her presentation was “Why Does the Past Matter? Towards a Social Science of the Past.”
For his cutting-edge use of open-source software in the classroom and as a research focus, Charles Schweik, associate professor of Environmental Conservation and Public Policy, has been named one of this year’s top 50 innovators in education by the Center for Digital Education, a national research and advisory institute specializing in education technology trends, policy and funding.
B.J. Roche, senior lecturer in Journalism, has been selected as one of 12 fellows to the 2013 Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix.
Distinguished University Professor James Young, of English and Judaic Studies, will chair a roundtable discussion on “What is Jewish Culture?” on Nov. 28 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Sheila Brennan of Undergraduate Advising & Learning Communities has been elected to a four-year term as Northeast Council representative for the National Student Exchange program.