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Veterans Services sponsoring Toys for Tots drive

Veterans Services is collecting new and unwrapped toy for less fortunate children for this year's Toys for Tots campaign.
 
Bring donations to the Veteran Services drop box outside of 231 Whitmore.
 

Ouellett honored by Professional Organization Development Network in Higher Education

Mathew L. Ouellett, associate director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, was honored Oct. 27 by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) with the Bob Pierleoni Spirit of POD Award at the organization's annual conference in Seattle.

The award recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and leadership in the enhancement of teaching, learning, and faculty development.

Speaker examines changes in Scandinavian white nationalist music

Benjamin Teitelbaum of the University of Colorado Boulder will speak “Norwegian Terrorist Breivik, Music, and Ideological Affiliation: Changes in the Sound of Scandinavian Radical Nationalism” on Monday, Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m. in 601 Herter Hall.
 
The talk is part of the Scandinavian Impulses 2 series on Vengeance and Violence.
 
Teitelbaum’s research on right-wing groups discovered a decline in popularity of hate rock and white power punk, and a rise of white, nationalist hip hop, reggae and light pop.

Hao receives APHA Student Presentation Award

Jing Hao, doctoral student in Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been awarded the 2012 American Public Health Association (APHA) Student Presentation Award.
 
Hao received the award for her study on the “Public Health Implications and Economics of Combination Drugs.” The study was among the five most highly-rated student papers selected for presentation in the oral student session at the 2012 APHA annual meeting held Oct. 27-31 in San Francisco.
 
Combination drugs, also known as fixed-dose combinations, are combinations of two or more active

Sinha is panelist on Lincoln and the Constitution

Professor Manisha Sinha of Afro-American Studies took part in a panel on the National Constitution Center's traveling exhibition "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" on Nov. 7 at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut.

The exhibition is administered by the American Library Association and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The panel included professor James F. Simon of the New York Law School, professor J. Ronald Spencer of Trinity College, and prize-winning Lincoln biographer professor Michael Burlingame of the University of Illinois.

Obituary: Manuel "Manny" Roberts, retired Physical Plant maintenance technician

Manuel “Manny” P. Roberts, 63, of Greenfield, a retired maintenance technician II with Physical Plant, died Nov. 3.

Born in New York City, he grew up in Amherst and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1967.
 
He joined the campus staff in 1974 and retired in 2011.

He leaves four children, Heather in Greenfield, Ian in Turners Falls, Raquel Barry in Greenfield and Shane in Montague. He is also survived by a sister Rosemarie James in Amherst; a brother Juan and his wife Michele in Belchertown; an aunt and a large extended family, most of whom reside in the Pioneer Valley.

Obituary: Michael A. Cann, retired psychologist with Mental Health Services

Michael A. Cann, 84, of Amherst, a retired psychologist at Mental Health Services, died at home Oct. 28 after a long illness.

Born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany, he emigrated with his family in 1937 to the Netherlands after Hitler’s rise to power. In 1939 he and his mother arrived in New York where his father had found work as an electrical engineer the previous year.  

After graduating from Weequahic High School in Newark, N.J., he attended Rutgers University for one semester and then enlisted in the Army.

Robert Kraft to keynote campus's inaugural Salute to Service Awards

The campus will honor contributions to civic engagement and public service at the first-ever Salute to Service award ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Boston Harbor Hotel.
 
The event will recognize Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group and the New England Patriots, Liz Walker, founder of Walker Group, LLC and co-founder of My Sister’s Keeper, and Dr. Robert Littleton, founder of the Evergreen Center, for their volunteer leadership and professional achievements. Steve Buckley, Boston Herald sports columnist and host of Press Box, will emcee the event.

Campus events to mark Veterans Day

Several campus events are planned in observance of Veterans Day to pay homage to veterans as well as family members who have been affected by military deployments.
 
The Office of Veteran Services will host its third annual Warrior Breakfast on Friday, Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. in Memorial Hall. The breakfast is open to students, faculty, staff and alumni who are veterans as well as their families. RSVP to Veteran Services coordinator Judy Gagnon at jgagnon@stuaf.umass.edu.
 
A Veterans Day vigil hosted by the Army and Air Force ROTC units will be held outside Memorial Hall near the Campus Pond

Institute addresses how to help children of military families

The School of Education and 4-H's Operation Military Kids are co-hosting “Living in the New Normal (LINN) Institute: Helping Children Thrive in Good and Challenging Times,” on Nov. 14-15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 165-69 Campus Center. The program is sponsored by the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC).
 
Participants will learn about the experiences of children of deployed military personnel in hands-on sessions on topics such as grief, happiness, trauma versus challenges, stages of development, coping styles, ranges of emotion, injury and re-integration.

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