Obituaries

  1. July 22, 2024

    Obituary — Lynn Conway

    Lynn Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, who quietly revolutionized microchip design and boldly blazed a trail for transgender individuals, died June 9.

  2. July 22, 2024

    Obituary — Ellen Spence Poteet

    Ellen Spence Poteet, lecturer in the Department of History, died April 3 in Batouri, Cameroon, where she is buried, as she wished.

  3. June 10, 2024

    Obituary — Antonius Broos

    Antonius (Ton) Broos, 77, a retired lecturer of Dutch in LSA’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, died March 1 at his home in Ann Arbor.

  4. June 10, 2024

    Obituary — Gunter Dufey

    Gunter Dufey, professor emeritus of corporate strategy, international business and finance in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, died peacefully in his Ann Arbor home on May 15, 2024.

  5. May 20, 2024

    Obituary — Elias Baumgarten

    Elias Baumgarten, associate professor emeritus of philosophy at UM-Dearborn’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, died May 5, 2024, after an extended battle with complications arising from esophageal cancer.

  6. May 6, 2024

    Obituary — Douglas R. Woolley

    Douglas R. Woolley, a former University of Michigan associate registrar and retired registrar, died April 3 at age 94 in Ann Arbor.

  7. April 29, 2024

    Obituary — Marvin G. Parnes

    Marvin G. Parnes, who served a variety of administrative roles at U-M, died March 13 at age 74 after a prolonged illness.

  8. April 29, 2024

    Obituary — Bunyan Bryant Jr.

    Bunyan Isaiah Bryant Jr., professor emeritus of natural resources and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus, died peacefully at home March 28 after a short battle with cancer.

  9. March 25, 2024

    Obituary — Hubert I. Cohen

    Hubert Irwin (“Hugh”) Cohen, professor of film, television and media in LSA, and of arts and ideas in the humanities in the Residential College, died March 1 at age 93.

  10. March 11, 2024

    Obituary — Charles Beck

    Charles B. Beck, professor emeritus of botany, died Feb. 26 at the age of 96. In 1955, he accepted a faculty position at U-M, ultimately becoming chairman of the Department of Botany.