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CPPA to honor Schweik, alumnus at Sept. 6 book launch party

Charles Schweik, associate professor of Public Policy and Environmental Conservation, and alumnus Robert English, co-authors of the just published Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons, will be honored by the Center for Public Policy and Administration at a book launch party on Thursday, Sept. 6 from 4-6 p.m. in the Gordon Hall atrium.
 
Published by the MIT Press, Internet Success is the result of the first large-scale empirical study examining the social, technical and institutional aspects of open source software.

Albany Records releases CD of Bestor's compositions

"The Sound of Time," a new CD of the music of professor emeritus Charles Bestor, has been released by Albany Records.  

The CD, his first to include all compositions with electronics also features Eric Berlin, professor of trumpet, as a soloist. 

Bestor's many works have been published by G. Schirmer, Elkan-Vogel, General Music Publishers, International Editions, Dorn Music and Media Press, and recorded by Serenus, Orion, Capstone and the ASUS Recording Series.

Obituary: Eunice Konieczny, retired Student Activities staffer

Eunice R. (Bowen) Konieczny, 87, of Live Oak, Fla., died Aug. 4.

Born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., she was educated in Newport Center public schools, from which she graduated in 1934. After graduation, she was employed by the farm labor office of the Orleans County Extension Service. She was also active in 4-H Club work.

In 1946, she moved to Northampton, where she was worked for the Hampshire County Extension Service.

She joined the Student Activities Office in 1959 and retired in 1986 as the office manager for the Student Senate.

She leaves her four children, Ann Marie Konieczny, Louise Margaret

Cavanagh awarded grant for nursing loan program

Stephen Cavanagh, dean of the School of Nursing, was awarded $222,000 by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a Nurse Faculty Loan Program fund for graduate students.

The purpose of NFLP is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty to facilitate education of the nurses needed to address the nursing workforce shortage.  The NFLP provides funding to schools of nursing to support the establishment and operation of a loan fund.

Participating schools of nursing make loans from the fund to assist registered nurses in completing their graduate education to

Ndikumana nominated to U.N. Committee for Development Policy

Léonce Ndikumana, Andrew Glyn Professor in the Department of Economics, has been nominated by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the U.N. Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in 2013-15.

The CDP is a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It provides information and independent advice to the council on emerging cross-sectoral development issues and on international cooperation for development, focusing on medium- and long-term aspects.

DiMare honored by National Legal Aid & Defender Association

 
Charles DiMare, director of Student Legal Services, received the Elizabeth Berg Streeter Community Service Award during the 35th annual National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) conference held July 16-21 in Burlington, Vt.
 
The award recognizes excellence in service to the legal community, social justice and equality.
 
DiMare has been the director of the Student Legal Services Office since 1980 after starting there as a staff attorney in 1979. He serves on several university and statewide policy committees and is an elected member of the Alumni Association’s board of directors.

Galman and Valdiviezo named editors of Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Associate professor Sally Galman and assistant professor Laura Valdiviezo, both of the Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies Department in the School of Education, have been named editors of Anthropology and Education Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal that draws on anthropological theories and methods to examine educational processes in and out of schools, in U.S. and international contexts.

Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions.

Nutrition’s Carbone presents at conferences in Italy

Elena Carbone, associate professor of Nutrition in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, made a presentation and moderated a panel discussion at the Echi Oltremare Food and Culture conference in Rome in June. Her presentation, titled "Who Are You and What Are You Eating?" examined the interaction of food, health and self-identity.
 
Carbone was also an invited speaker at the Critical Studies on Food Summer Program in Italy, which included several UMass Amherst students.

Urla addresses plenary session of anthropology conference in Paris

Anthropology professor Jacqueline Urla, presented at a July 12 plenary session during the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Paris.

Urla’s presentation, “Reflections on a ‘Thick’ Description of Resistance,” reviewed the emergence of resistance as an object of ethnographic study. She argued that the “thick description” characteristic of ethnography is a valuable contribution to the field of resistance studies. She called on anthropologists to make their work more relevant by engaging as public intellectuals in a broader field of political discourse.

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Caswell elected to presidency of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Julie A. Caswell, professor and chair of the Department of Resource Economics, has been elected to the presidency of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA),  a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.

She will take the office of president-elect for one year at the AAEA meeting being held Aug. 12-14 in Seattle, then serve as president and past president.

Caswell was recognized as a fellow of AAEA in 2011.

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