Officer Christopher LaFlamme, the longest serving member of the UMass Police Department, was presented badge No. 1 by Chief Barbara O’Connor during an Aug. 25 ceremony in the Miller Room of Dickinson Hall.
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Bradley W. Thornton, 70, of Florence, a retired painter II with Physical Plant, died Aug. 20.
William J. Sienkiewicz, 79, of Northampton, a retired motor truck driver at Physical Plant, died Aug. 21 at home after a long illness.
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María Idalí Torres, a faculty member in the Department of Public Health since 1992, has been named director of the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at UMass Boston.
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Brian D. Bunk, visiting assistant professor of History, co-edited “Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne,” published this month by the Parallel Press of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Arline M. (Hansen) Sheridan Molongoski, 89, of Glastonbury, Conn., a retired junior library assistant, died Aug. 19 in Manchester, Conn.
Fergus M. Clydesdale, Distinguished Professor and head of the Food Science Department, presented the 2008 Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture on Aug. 19 at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Philadelphia.
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Ashoke Ganguli, director of Auxiliary Services, received the Pinnacle Award from the (OS1) Users Group Aug. 18 in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to the cleaning industry and the (OS1) program.”
Computer Science professor Eliot Moss shared an award for the most influential paper at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture held June 21-25 in Beijing.
Richard D. Kolosewicz, 68, of Belchertown, a retired technical specialist with the Physical Plant’s Plumbing Shop, died Aug. 11 of cancer.
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The DEFA Film Library this summer is hosting its first visiting scholar from Austria, according to director Barton Byg, professor in German and Scandinavian Studies.
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Lester F. Whitney, 80, of Amherst, professor emeritus of Plant and Soil Sciences, died July 31 after a prolonged stay at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
