UMass Amherst Faculty Achievements Noted
March 14, 2007
| Contact: | Daniel J. Fitzgibbons 413/545-0444 |
AMHERST, Mass. –Three University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty members have been involved in notable professional activities in recent weeks:
Professor Jay Berkovitz of Judaic and Near Eastern studies gave an invited talk on “Halakhic (Jewish Legal) Literature as a Source for Autobiography” at a March 6 symposium on “Biography, Autobiography and Hagiography” at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.
The lecture explored what can be learned about the persona of jurists in early modern Europe from their legal decisions.
Berkovitz is on sabbatical leave this spring as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust promotes the cultural heritage of Israel and its achievements in development, state-building, scholarship, science and education.
Lady Davis Fellows are selected on the basis of demonstrated excellence in their studies, promise of distinction in their chosen fields of specialization, as well as qualities of mind, intellect and character.
In January, Berkovitz’s new book, “Tradition and Revolution: Jewish Culture in Early Modern France,” was published in Hebrew by the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Israel’s leading publisher of Jewish historical scholarship.
Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, was one of five featured speakers at Brown University’s Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences on March 3.
Nagurney spoke on “Operations Research and the Captivating Study of Networks and Complex Decision-Making.”
The symposium is intended to “foster greater undergraduate interest in mathematics throughout the sciences” and what the National Science Foundation calls the “mathematization of sciences.”
Jack Ahern, professor and head of the department of landscape architecture and regional planning, gave a keynote address titled “Green Infrastructure: The Spatial Dimension” at the “Shades of Green” symposium held March 8 at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario.
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