AMHERST, Mass. - Ayele Bekerie of the African Studies and Research Center at Cornell University will give a lecture, "The Ethiopian Number System and its Relation to Education," on Tues., May 5 at 4 p.m. in the Gunness conference room of Marcus Hall at the University of Massachusetts. The lecture is sponsored by the UMass Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Institute. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served before the talk, at 3:45 p.m.

AMHERST, Mass. - Harry T. Allan of Amherst, former dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Management, died Wednesday at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton from a heart attack. Allan was 69. He also served as provost at Northeastern University in Boston and dean of the School of Management at Syracuse University.

AMHERST, Mass. - Researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., and Advanced Cell Technologies, Worcester, Mass., have successfully treated Parkinsonism in rats by using fetal brain cells from cloned cows. This research is the first demonstration that transgenic cloned animal tissue can be used in the treatment of a disease. Results of the research study will appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Ph.D. student Lyn Gualtieri, of Boxford, has received a Fulbright Fellowship to study glacial rocks in Iceland. Gualtieri earned her bachelor’s degree at UMass, and a master’s degree at the University of Alberta, Canada.