Academic Footnotes

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H. Tristram Englehardt Jr., a Professor of Philosophy at Rice University and a Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, has died.  He was 71.

 

 

https://ethicscenter.nd.edu/news/in-memoriam-h-tristram-engelhardt-jr-19412018/

 

 

(I thought Tristram had 'died' in Diablo II)

 

 

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Nina Baym, an American literary critic who taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more than 40 years, has died.  She was 82.

 

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/06/22/nina-baym-who-brought-novels-by-women-to-light-dies-at-82.html

 

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Marxist-Leninist philosopher Domenico Losurdo has died.  He was 77.

 

https://ilmanifesto.it/domenico-losurdo-il-filosofo-marxista-controcorrente/

 

(Italian language source)

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(Also posted in the 'Interesting Ways to Die' thread.)

 

 

A UCLA professor has died in a mummification ritual that appears bondage related.  Doran George was found dead inside the home of Skip Chasey, of the William Morris Endeavor agency.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/01/ucla-professor-dies-in-mummification-ritual-at-hollywood-executives-home.html

 

[Sir Creep 7,068]

A groundbreaking scholar on slavery and Reconstruction has died. Willie Lee Rose was 91.  Rose died in her sleep June 20 at a Baltimore retirement community. Rose was known for the 1964 publication, "Rehearsal for Reconstruction," a prize-winning study of a black community off the Atlantic coast and its struggles to build a post-slavery society.  The book won the Francis Parkman Prize for history among other honors and was cited as among the works that helped lead to a more balanced and positive view of Reconstruction and freed slaves.  In 1970, a committee led by Rose released an influential study condemning gender inequality in the historical profession. She taught at Johns Hopkins from 1973-1992.
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[YoungWillz 20,890]

Botanist Sir David Smith has died aged 88: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2018/praise-for-sir-david-smith-former-principal

 

Various University roles including Principal of Edinburgh University. Gold Medal for Botany from the Linnean Society.

[Sir Creep 7,068]

Dr. Edward Furlani, a professor in the electrical engineering department, died unexpectedly on Tuesday at 65 years old.  Furlani came to the University of Buffalo in 2011 after a 25-year career at Eastman Kodak Research Labs in Rochester where he performed and directed computational modeling for the development of numerous commercial technologies.  Furlani completed all of his schooling at UB. His work spans 152 U.S. patents, which helped elevate him to become a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. 
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Dr. Linda Pall, a former Washington State University professor whose accomplishments also included becoming an attorney and being elected to the Moscow, Idaho city council, has died.  She was 73.

 

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/20/after-a-lifetime-of-accomplishments-the-inland-nor/

 

 

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Ada Yardeni, a paleographer and one of the greatest authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, has died. She was 81.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dead-sea-scrolls-decoder-remembered-as-grande-dame-of-semitic-paleography/

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,068]

Bradford Smith, a NASA astronomer who acted as planetary tour guide to the public with his interpretations of stunning images beamed back from Voyager missions, has died.

He died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of complications from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder. He was 86.

Smith led the NASA team that interpreted pictures taken by Voyager space probes as they passed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and then presented the images to the public. He was a retired professor of planetary sciences and astronomy at the University of Arizona and research astronomer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

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[Sir Creep 7,068]

Robert P. Behringer, James B. Duke Professor of Physics and member of the Duke community for nearly 50 years, died on Tuesday, July 10 after a short illness. He was 69 years old.
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Hu Sheng-cheng, a renowned Taiwanese economist at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, has died.  He was 78.

 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201807110015.aspx

 

 

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Christopher Pollitt, professor emeritus at the Public Governance Institute in Belgium and the co-author of a number of books on public management, has died.  He was 72.

 

https://colinrtalbot.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/christopher-pollitt-rip/

 

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Robert George Gilpin Jr.,  a professor of politics and international affairs, emeritus, in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University, died June 20th.  He was 87. 

 

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/07/13/robert-george-gilpin-jr-expert-international-political-economy-dies-87

 

 

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Tony Schmitt, the longtime professor and director of theater/drama at Wayne State University (in Detroit), which he joined in 1978, died Sunday, July 1, 2018, after suffering a stroke. He was 80. 
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Richard Clark Sterne, a professor of English and American Studies at Simmons College for over four decades and host of Boston PBS affiliate WGBH's 'Just Published' in the 1960s, has died.  He was 91.

 

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=richard-clark-sterne&pid=189625556

 

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Stavros Tsakyrakis, a leading Greek professor of constitutional law imprisoned and tortured for his views by the Greek junta, has died.  He was 67.

 

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/21/leading-greek-law-professor-stavros-tsakyrakis-dies-at-67/

 

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Alun Howkins, a University of Sussex Professor Emeritus in Social History, author of several books on agriculture & rural England and an on-air contributor to the 2009 TV mini-series documentary 'Mud Sweat and Tractors: The Story of Agriculture', has died.  He was 70.

 

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/45473

 

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Arthur L. “Butch” Wilson, professor and chair of Cornell’s former Department of Education, died May 10 in Lexington, Virginia. He was 67.

A faculty member from 1999 until his retirement in 2015, Wilson focused his research on adult education and the role of power in shaping educational and social lives.
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Pioneering Australian climate scientist Mary E. White (allegedly) murdered by her daughter in a care home:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6041635/Nursing-home-murder-Woman-charged-killing-elderly-mother.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E._White

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33 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Pioneering Australian climate scientist Mary E. White (allegedly) murdered by her daughter in a care home:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6041635/Nursing-home-murder-Woman-charged-killing-elderly-mother.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E._White

Mary White's bad luck: -- when it rains, it pours.

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23 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Mary White's bad luck: -- when it rains, it pours.

The climate certainly changed in their relationship!

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Global warming..... She's for the crem then.

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Scottish academic, writer and teacher John Calcutt, who led the MFA and MLitt programmes at Glasgow School of Art, has died. He was 67.

 

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16417791.tributes-paid-to-glasgow-school-of-art-teacher-and-writer-john-calcutt-who-has-died-age-67/

[Sir Creep 7,068]

Died in April but this appears to be first mention.

Jean Pierre de Monchaux, an idealistic and optimistic planner and architect who served as dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning from 1981 to 1992, passed away on April 30, after living with Parkinson’s disease for 20 years. He was 81.

Coolest thing I saw was his email address at MIT:  demon@mit.edu
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