Dorothy M. (Hopper) Burke, 102, of Amherst, a retired head of residence, died June 16.
Born in Highland, N.Y., she was educated in the Newburgh, N.Y., public schools and graduated from Cornell University in 1932.
She was married to James W. Burke of Waverly, N.Y., in 1932 and they were divorced in 1958.
She came to Amherst in 1935. From 1956-66, she was employed at the Amherst Journal Record, first as a stringer, then as assistant editor, and from 1964-66 as news editor.
Burke was hired by the Dean of Women's Office in 1966 as the first head of residence in Patterson House in Southwest.
Meeting in Lowell, the Board of Trustees on June 19 authorized President Robert L. Caret to raise tuition and fees by up to 4.9 percent for the coming academic year if the Legislature’s compromise budget does not include a $39 million funding increase for the five-campus system.
Taking advantage of UMass Amherst’s investment in cutting-edge analytical equipment for geosciences research, several visiting geologists who collected the first subglacial sediment cores ever extracted from a lake deep below the west Antarctic ice sheet recently spent three days at the campus’s Hartshorn Quaternary Lab using two rare, state-of-the-art machines to analyze their hard-won samples.
In the cover story for the journal Genetics this month, neurobiologist Dan Chase and colleagues describe a new experimental technique they developed that will allow scientists to study the function of individual proteins in individual cell types in a living organism.
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies will be hosting two faculty from the University of Toronto as scholars in residence for the fall semester.
Amilcar Shabazz, professor of Afro-American Studies and faculty advisor to the chancellor for diversity and excellence, has been chosen by Springfield-based UnityFirst.com to receive its Common Ground award for “leadership, excellence and role model example for generations to come.”
Dr. Bruce H. Kraut, chief of pediatrics at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla., has been named director of University Health Services.
The STEM Diversity Institute is hosting four faculty members from minority-serving institutions through the Visiting Partner Faculty Program funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Development.
Paul C. L. Huner, 80, of Amherst, alumnus and former storekeeper II in the Athletic Department, died June 14 at Linda Manor Extended Care Facility of complications associated with a decade-long struggle with dementia.