The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies is being awarded this year’s American Historical Association's Equity Award recognizing success in training and placing nearly 100 percent of its minority historians in academia.
The award was announced in the November issue of Perspectives on History, and will be presented on Jan. 4 at the AHA annual meeting in New Orleans, prior to the president’s address by William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin.
“The association is extremely pleased to confer this honor on so deserving a recipient,” AHA executive director James Grossman
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.
Beginning Tuesday, June 18, through the end of July, a temporary delivery vehicle route will be in place extending from a point west of South College to the Student Union ellipse. The normal delivery route via Hicks Way adjacent to the south side of the Campus Garage will be closed to through traffic for utility work. Accessible parking in Thompson Lot 64 will be temporarily relocated.
Campus officials this week praised the completion of a two-year, $12.3 million laboratory renovation in the Lederle Graduate Research Center, saying the project will enhance research in the biological and physical sciences and make the campus competitive nationally.
Molecular chaperones have emerged as exciting new potential drug targets, because scientists want to learn how to stop cancer cells, for example, from using chaperones to enable their uncontrolled growth. Now a team of biochemists led by Lila Gierasch has deciphered key steps in the mechanism of the Hsp70 molecular machine by “trapping” this chaperone in action, providing a dynamic snapshot of its mechanism.
Poinsettias are springing up in offices across campus, but they’re not being brought by elves — the holiday plants are part of a new horticultural program launched by Landscape Management and employing the skills of students from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture.
All 45 of the campus's residence halls are now protected with fire sprinkler systems, following a massive, voluntary retrofit to protect students in one of the nation’s largest on-campus housing systems. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan hailed the achievement as an impressive commitment to public safety.