Faculty members representing the nine schools and colleges were recognized Sept. 23 for their service to the Graduate School through participation on thesis and dissertation committees.

Panos Kevrekidis, associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and colleagues report in the journal Physical Review Letters that they have confirmed the mathematical prediction of oscillations and interactions of dark solitons behaving like particles at the coldest temperatures in the universe, a few billionths of a degree Kelvin.

Professor Stephen Clingman participated with author Caryl Phillips in an event in the English department at Yale University on Oct. 3.

Anna Sargent Russell, 87, a longtime resident of both Northampton and Ashfield and retired lecturer in the School of Education, died Oct. 2 at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst.