Grain & Chaff

Jim Proulx, cook I at the Berkshire Dining Hall, dances a bit as he prepares shrimp with pineapple in a coconut sauce at the annual Taste of UMass food festival held April 18 at the Mullins Center. The event is sponsored by Food Services. (Stan Sherer photo)

In translation

A book co-edited and authored by Landscape Architecture professor Nicholas T. Dines will be released in a Chinese-language edition next month.
"Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture," written with Charles W. Harris, professor emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has been translated into Chinese by the China Architecture and Building Press, according to Dines.

The American Society of Landscape Architects award-winning reference is in its second edition and is published by the McGraw-Hill Companies. The English version and the recently released CD-ROM edition, are used in university programs and professional offices throughout the world. The book focuses on site construction processes, critical dimensions and area requirements for various activities and cultural settings, associated structural formulas, materials, and essential construction details.

Another taste of UMass

Squirrels in the area around Whitmore, Munson Hall and Herter Hall are a little nervous these days since a red fox settled into the territory. The fox was seen on Monday merrily walking past Whitmore with one of the squirrels in its jaws. Just to make matters worse for the gray team, a large red-tailed hawk was spotted in a tree in front of Munson, carefully scanning the ground for prey.

Something to say

Steve Tracy of Afro-American Studies delivered the Fourth Annual John Roche Memorial Lecture at Rhode Island College on April 19. Previous lectures were delivered by Lawrence Buell, Werner Sollors and Elizabeth Ammons. The lecture was entitled "'Did You Ever Dream Lucky, Wake Up Cold In Hand?': African American Vernacular Music in the Works of Langston Hughes."

ITS an honor for Councilman

Director of Outreach Elizabeth Councilman on April 3 received the Leadership Award from ITS Massachusetts, the state chapter of the Intelligent Transportation Society. Councilman joined ITS when she was assistant director of the UMass Transportation Center in the College of Engineering. She was a member of the group's board of directors and the coordinating committee. She also served two terms as president from 1997-1999. Councilman also has been one of two Massachusetts representatives on ITS America's State Chapters Council since 1994.

The award was recently named for MIT professor Joseph M. Sussman, who presented the plaque.