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Welcome to the Retired Faculty Association The aims of the Retired Faculty Association are:
• To facilitate
constructive contributions by its members to the
University;
• To ascertain the relevant needs of retired faculty and to communicate this information to the
administration; and
• To promote social and intellectual interaction among its members.
All retired faculty members and librarians are eligible for Active Membership with full voting rights. Retired faculty members and
librarians living outside the Amherst area, retired faculty members and librarians of other colleges or universities, and widows or
widowers of persons who were eligible for Active or Associate Membership, may become Associate Members upon payment of Associate Member
dues. Spouses of Active or Associate Members qualify as Associate members without payment of dues.
This site aims to provide useful information to retired faculty through the links on the menu at left. If you have suggestions for
types of information you would like to find here contact us at retfac@cns.umass.edu |
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Featured News
Wednesday,
September 11th Meeting Agenda
Campus Center Room 904-908
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee, Tea, Juice, Cookies |
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10:15 - 10:40 |
Introductions
and welcoming new members.
Nominations will be accepted from the floor for
the office of Vice President.
Discussion of proposed changes to the Bylaws. |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
Banu Subramaniam
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Developments
in WGSS |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Mokhtar Atallah
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Dietary
Fiber and Health |
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Banu Subramaniam
Professor & Chair, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. The program is committed to interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis in which the study of women and gender is multi-faceted, diverse, and embedded in a network of power relations including race, class, sexuality, and nation. Professor Subramaniam works in the field of Feminist Science and Technology studies and is the author of
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism; Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of
Diversity; in addition to numerous chapters articles and essays
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Mokhtar T. Atallah
Professor Emeritus, Nutrition, retired from UMass Jan 2009. B.S., 1960, Agriculture, Cairo University;
M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, Food Science, WSU. His graduate studies focused on the enzymes that breakdown pectin. He joined the
Dept. of Nutrition in 1976 after 2 Post-Docs, one in Food Sci. and one in Nutrition. His research was on the effects of variations
in pectin on the digestion and absorption of other components in the diet, especially minerals. Atallah served as Acting Head of
the Dept. of Nutrition before retiring in 2009. He taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses to majors as well as a
popular introductory course to non-majors, reaching about 10,000 students during his tenure. He will discuss how fiber in the
diet can influence a wide array of chronic diseases.
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