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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

Hernández awarded William M. LeoGrande book prize

José Angel Hernández, associate professor of History, is a winner of the inaugural William M. LeoGrande Prize for the best book on U.S.-Latin American Relations published during the 2011-12 academic year. The award is given by the School of Public Affairs and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington, D.C.
 
Hernández was recognized for his work, “Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” published by Cambridge University Press.

Obituary: Wilfried Malsch, professor emeritus of German

Wilfried Malsch, 88, of Amherst, professor emeritus of German, died March 12.
 
Bornin Karlsruhe am Rhein in Germany, he was captured by American troops in Natuno, Italy, during World War II. As a prisoner of war in Alabama and later in Pennsylvania he developed his love and respect for America as a place of tremendous change and endless hope.
 
A constant thread throughout his life from then on was both his fear of economic depression that led to Fascism in Germany and his hatred of war in general.

Obituary: Albert 'Bud' Owen, former painter

Albert C. “Bud” Owen, 93, of Amherst, a former painter, died March 14 at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst.

Born in Amherst, he grew up working on his family’s farm logging and delivering milk.
 
He was hired on campus as a farmhand in 1943 but left to serve in the Navy during World War II.  He returned to campus in 1954 as a janitor and was promoted to painter the following year. He left in 1984.
 
He leaves his children, Earl Owen and Mary Ann Phelon, and seven grandchildren.

Calling hours are Sunday, March 17 from 2-5 p.m. at the Czelusniak Funeral Home of Northampton.

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Obituary: Robert E. Taylor, former head of Romance Languages

Robert E. Taylor, 93, of Amherst, professor emeritus and former head of the Department of Romance languages, died Feb. 27 in Northampton.
 
Born in Portland, Ore., he earned his B.A. in French from Reed College in 1943 and his master’s degree and doctorate from Columbia University, specializing in 18th-century literature.

He served in World War II as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps, stationed in the South Pacific.

Before joining the faculty in 1963 as professor and head of the Department of Romance Languages, he was an associate professor at New York University and an instructor at

After 42 years on campus, Rose-Racine bids farewell

Nina Rose-Racine closed out a lengthy campus career Jan. 19 when she retired as the office manager in Asian Languages and Literatures.

She came to UMass as a student in 1970, graduated with a B.A. in Japanese and an Asian Studies Certificate in 1975, began work as the office manager for Asian Languages and Literature in 1975, and has been there ever since.

“I’ll miss a lot of the people that I’ve worked with over the years very much. Leaving the ‘work’ part of my years here is something that I can do. Leaving my colleagues is not easily done.”

She looks forward to learning how to garden,

Willey awarded humanities fellowships at Rice, Dartmouth

Angela Willey, assistant professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, has been named a Rice University Humanities Research Institute Fellow in a year-long seminar on “Materialism and New Materialism Across the Disciplines,” starting Sept. 1.

Willey will be working on a project titled “Feminist Genealogies for New Materialism,” which aims to disrupt a story that positions what has been termed “new materialism” as an intervention in feminist and critical theory and instead charts its genealogies within those traditions.

This summer, Willey will be a Dartmouth Leslie Center for the Humanities

Gershenson profiled in Israeli newspaper Haaretz

Olga Gershenson, associate professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, was profiled March 5 in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in connection with the forthcoming publication of her book, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe,” by Rutgers University Press.
 
Gershenson spoke about her book at an International Conference on “The Holocaust and the Jews in the Second World War in Soviet Literature and Film” held Feb. 19-20 at Yad Veshem, Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
 
 
(Haartez photo)
 
 

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