Jean E. (Stowell) Ohlson, 71, of New Salem, a retired nursing assistant at University Health Services, died Jan. 31 at the Legend Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Gardner.
Born in Athol, she grew up on the family farm and graduated from Athol-Royalston Regional High School in 1959.
Following high school, she worked briefly at a shoe shop in Athol before going to get her nursing degree from Quinsigamond Community College. After earning her degree, she worked as a nurse at Athol Memorial Hospital, Tech Medical and at University Health Services from 1982-98.
She leaves her husband of
Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard Kennedy School will give the inaugural lecture in the Political Economy Research Institute's African Development Policy Program Speaker Series, “Growing Africa: Agricultural Innovation and Economic Transformation” on Friday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in the Gordon Hall Conference Room.
Ian Grosse, professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and director of the Intelligent Modeling, Analysis, and Design Laboratory has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
The campus' 150th birthday celebration features a yearlong series of events and activities that will reflect on the contributions of a once-tiny agricultural college that now enrolls 28,000 students and ranks among the nation’s top public research universities.
State Senate President Therese Murray last week named alumnus Stan Rosenberg to the No. 2 spot on her leadership team, tapping the longtime Amherst Democrat as majority leader.
Burnley Jaklevic joined the campus’s Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property as senior licensing officer on Dec. 17.
The Science, Technology and Society Initiative at the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) will host a panel discussion titled “Governing Biodiversity: Citizen Voices on the Global Stage” on Friday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 p.m. in 302-304 Gordon Hall.
Astronomy professor Daniela Calzetti recently received one of her profession’s most important honors when she was named the 2013 Blaauw Professor at the University of Groningen’s Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in The Netherlands. She is recognized for “excellence in research, broad knowledge of astronomy and an outstanding international status in astronomy.”
Robert Stillman of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who will be in residency at the Renaissance Center Feb. 6-8, will deliver a lecture on Sir Philip Sidney on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Reading Room.