The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Sabina Diamond Braunthal, 80, of Amherst, alumna and a retired technician in Microbiology, died of cancer on Nov 16 at the Center for Extended Care.
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Biology professor Tobias Baskin recently received a three-year, $511,143 National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award to acquire a state-of-the-art, high-resolution scanning electron microscope.
Several faculty and graduate students from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences made presentations at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association held Nov. 5-11 in Philadelphia.
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Marion Rhodes, 86, of Sunderland, alumna and professor emeritus of Chemistry, died Nov. 11 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
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Linda Lockwood Stansmore, 73, retired associate professor in Environmental Sciences and former director of the Honors program, died Nov. 15 from Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Sunderland.
Associate professor Barry Braun and assistant professor Ned Debold of the Kinesiology Department spoke at the New England American College of Sports Medicine meeting held Nov. 5-6 in Providence.
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Jane Fountain, professor of Political Science and Public Policy and director of the National Center for Digital Government, has been appointed for a second year to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government.
Marion S. (Swiatlowski) Whalen, 76, of South Hadley, a retired food service manager, died Nov. 11 at the Holyoke Medical Center.
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Siegfried Feller, 83, of Pelham, retired associate director for Collection Development and chief bibliographer for the Libraries, died Nov. 10 at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation in Hadley.
Jan Servaes, the director of Communication for Sustainable Social Change, recently keynoted two international conferences and was appointed an honorary guest professor at the Huazhong University of Technology and Science in China.
Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez, chair of the Five College Native American Indian Studies Certificate Program and assistant professor in Commonwealth College, presented a lecture, “Who Gets to Decide? American Indian Recognition Struggles” on Nov. 11 to a Yale University undergraduate course on American Indian law and policy.
