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Obituary: Robert Lentilhon, Professor Emeritus of Accounting
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Robert Ward Lentilhon, 89, of Palm Coast, Fla., professor emeritus of accounting, died April 19. Born in East Orange, N.J., he moved to Melrose, Mass., where he graduated high school. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was awarded a Bronze Star for action in Germany. He went on to...
Aelion Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from University of North Carolina
Friday, April 18, 2014
Marjorie Aelion, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. The Gillings School presents the award annually to...
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Announces 2014-15 ‘Value’ Fellows
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Eleven faculty members have been chosen by the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (ISI) as fellows for its 2014-15 seminar on “Value.” The fellows will approach the theme from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the humanities to public health to economics. Each fellow will receive...
Braun Presents at ACSM Health and Fitness Summit
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Kinesiology professor Barry Braun presented an invited lecture on April 2 at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Health and Fitness Summit in Atlanta. Titled “Too much sitting: How does it affect appetite and weight?,” Braun's talk helped attendees better understand the...
Chasan-Taber Authors Dissertation and Grant Proposal Writing Guide
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Lisa Chasan-Taber, professor of epidemiology, has authored “Writing Dissertation and Grant Proposals: Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics” to be published early next month by Chapman and Hall.

ISI Concludes Year with Roundtable on ‘Dimensions of Emancipation’
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute is presenting a roundtable discussion on “Dimensions of Emancipation” featuring fellows of the 2013-14 ISI faculty seminar on Emancipation on Thursday, April 24 at 4 p.m. in 316 Bartlett Hall.

Jazz Ensemble I and Studio Orchestra Play at Bowker April 30
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The Jazz Ensemble I and Studio Orchestra, directed by professor Jeffrey W. Holmes, will perform Wednesday, April 30 at 8 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The program will include new works by master’s students, as well as the late Yusef Lateef’s “Masara #2,” Michael Brecker...
UMass Amherst Artist Young Min Moon Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Young Min Moon, associate professor of studio art at UMass Amherst, has been selected to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Abercrombie is Celebrity Lecturer at Renaissance Center
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Wayne Abercrombie, professor emeritus of music, will give the Renaissance Center’s Annual Celebrity Lecture on Tuesday, April 29 at 4 p.m. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in Renaissance and early Baroque music. The lecture is free and open to the public;...
Fountain Named to ‘Top Fed 100’ by Federal Computer Week
Monday, April 14, 2014
Jane Fountain, Distinguished Professor in political science and public policy, was named last month to the “Top Federal 100” by Federal Computer Week. She is one of only two academics to make the list. “Federal IT would not function without people like this year’s Fed 100,...

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