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Tag: Obituary
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Nation
How they remember ‘Tree’
Those who knew civil rights scholar, legendary public defender, and voice for equality recall his kindness, generosity, and homemade sweet-potato pie.
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Campus & Community
John Bayley Fox Jr., who helped shape modern Harvard, dies at 86
John Bayley Fox Jr. ’59, who helped open Harvard’s doors to women and people of color from 1967 until he retired in 2007, died Nov. 27, 2022, after a long illness.
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Health
‘He showed us that the moral high ground can win’
Colleagues mourn the loss of Paul Farmer, Harvard professor and Partners In Health cofounder, and pledge to continue the work he pioneered.
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Campus & Community
Remembering biochemistry Professor Guido Guidotti
Guido Guidotti, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, taught hundreds of students during more than 60 years of research and teaching. Guidotti died April 5 in Newton, Massachusetts, following a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 87.
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Campus & Community
A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts
Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.
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Campus & Community
The evolution of bigotry
James H. Sidanius devoted much of his career to social justice and racial equality.
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Campus & Community
An instrumental scientist
Jerome Kagan taught at Harvard for 36 years. He died May 10.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School mourns the passing of Gustave ‘Gus’ Hauser
Longtime University benefactor Gustave M. Hauser cared deeply about developing ethical leaders. He died Feb. 14.
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Campus & Community
Harvard economist Robert Glauber dies at 81
A Harvard professor for more than five decades, Robert Glauber died at 81. , Among his many accomplishments, Glauber helped analyze the 1987 stock market crash and led negotiations to resolve the savings and loan crisis.
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Campus & Community
In memoriam: Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, a beloved Emeritus faculty member and mentor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, died on Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 99.
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Campus & Community
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, dies at 86
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, has died at 86. The professor of international economics also held many senior roles in U.S. government.
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Campus & Community
Ezra Vogel, leading expert on East Asia, dead at 90
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, died Dec. 20 at Mount Auburn Hospital due to complications from surgery. He was 90. A remarkable contributor…
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Campus & Community
Goodbye to ‘Mr. Cambridge’
Frank H. Duehay ’55, M.A.T. ’58, C.A.S. ’65, Ed.D. ’68, I.O.P. ’82, who was assistant dean and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 20. He served 36 years as an elected official in Cambridge and was elected three times as mayor.
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Campus & Community
Guido Goldman dies at age 83
Guido Goldman, who spent his life working for trans-Atlantic cooperation, died Nov. 30 at 83.
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Campus & Community
Biologist Rob Lue, founding HarvardX faculty director, dies at 56
Rob Lue was professor of the practice in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, founding faculty director of HarvardX, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation, and faculty director and principal investigator…
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Arts & Culture
Documentary photographer Chris Killip dies at 74
Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.
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Campus & Community
Richard A. Smith dies at 95
Richard A. Smith, a former member of both of Harvard’s governing boards, has died at age 95. Smith was a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1991 to 2000, and…
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Campus & Community
Former U.S. Ambassador Walter Carrington dies at 90
Walter Charles Carrington ’52, J.D. ’55, passed away on Aug. 11 at the age of 90. Carrington was a former U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Nigeria and civil rights activist.
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Campus & Community
Leading Harvard economist Emmanuel Farhi dies at 41
Macroeconomist and Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who made important contributions to real-world fiscal policy, died unexpectedly on July 23 at 41 years old.
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Nation & World
The conscience of a nation
Few political leaders who successfully transition from activists to lawmakers do so without losing the fire and focus on the causes that brought them to prominence. But Civil Rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died Friday, was that kind of rare leader.
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers
Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.
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Campus & Community
Recalling a pioneer of modern political economy
Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), died at age 63.
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Campus & Community
Respected teacher and administrator Richard M. Hunt dies at 93
Richard McMasters Hunt, a faculty member in social studies for 42 years and University Marshal for two decades, died on April 10 at the age of 93.
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Campus & Community
James McCarthy, environmentalist, dead at 75
James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and director emeritus of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died on Dec. 11 after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 75.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service set for Richard E. Kronauer
Richard E. Kronauer, 94, the Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away in Tucson, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2019.
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Campus & Community
John H. McArthur dies, was Business School dean from 1980-95
John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades, including as dean from 1980 to 1995, died on Aug. 20.
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Campus & Community
Remembering Anne Monius, 54
Anne E. Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away Aug. 3, at the age of 54. An Oct. 11 memorial gathering will be held at Loeb House.
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Campus & Community
Martin Kilson, College’s first tenured African American professor, dies at 88
Martin Kilson, who in 1969 became the first African American to be named a full professor at Harvard College, died on April 24.
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Campus & Community
Sidney Verba dies at 86
Colleagues reflect on the legacy of Sidney Verba, an influential political scientist who taught at Harvard for 35 years.
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Campus & Community
Nobel physics laureate Roy Glauber dies at 93
Roy Glauber, the pioneering theoretical physicist who received the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, died on Dec. 26. He was 93.
