A special issue on “Languages and cultures in contact in Africa and the Americas,” co-edited by the School of Education’s Theresa Austin with Reddad Erguig of Chouaib Doukkali University in Morocco, has been approved for publication in Languages and Linguistics with a publication date of December.
Austin is a professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Concentration in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. Erguig is a faculty member in the department of English, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, at Chouaib Doukkali University in El-Jadida.
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The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2012–13 American Fellowship to Christina “Nina” Moore, a doctoral candidate in Kinesiology.
Renee Fall, project manager of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) in Computer Science, with Paula Rees, director of diversity programs at the College of Engineering, recently attended the two-day 2012 Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) Global Summit at its offices in New York City, where they took part in activities with representatives from 26 other winning institutions from around the world.
Ellen J. Ferraro, a top official at the Raytheon Company in Waltham, will give the 13th annual Tang Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 4. The talk, titled “The Art of Systems Thinking Within the Science of Systems Engineering,” takes place in the Amherst Room on the 10th floor of the Campus Center at 4 p.m., with a reception at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
A free First Sunday Concert by Ayre Craft will be performed Sunday, Oct. 7 from 2-4 p.m. in the Renaissance Center's Reading Room.
Over the next five years, 300 Latina women in western and central Massachusetts with a history of diabetes while pregnant will receive personalized exercise, weight loss and other healthy lifestyle support to help them avoid developing type 2 diabetes after they give birth. The effort is funded with a $2.56 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases to Lisa Chasan-Taber, professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS).
James D. Capistran, executive director of the UMass Innovation Institute (UMII), has been appointed as a member of the executive committee of the state’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative. The appointment was announced Sept. 11 by Gregory P. Bialecki, state secretary of Housing and Economic Development.
Economist Léonce Ndikumana will speak on “What Would Plato Say about Africa’s Odious Debts?” on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium to open the Commonwealth Honors College Faculty Lecture Series.
The Blue Ocean Film Festival will screen the documentary film, “Fish Meat: Choose Your Farm Wisely,” by eco-filmmaker Ted Caplow and featuring fish ecologist Andy Danylchuk of the Environmental Conservation Department, on Sept. 26 in Monterey, Calif.