Obituaries

  1. November 4, 2024

    Obituary — Deborah Jane Oakley

    Deborah Jane Oakley, professor emerita of nursing, was born at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital in 1937 and died at home Aug. 21, 2024.

  2. October 7, 2024

    Obituary — Morton Brown

    Morton Brown, professor emeritus of mathematics, died peacefully Aug. 3 in Bellevue, Washington, at age 92.

  3. August 26, 2024

    Obituary — John Robert Wiseman

    John Robert Wiseman, professor emeritus of chemistry, died peacefully July 30 at the age of 88.

  4. August 26, 2024

    Obituary — Gayl Ness

    Gayl Ness, professor emeritus of sociology, born March 19, 1929, in Los Angeles, died peacefully in his sunroom at home with family by his side July 4.

  5. August 22, 2024

    President Emeritus James Duderstadt dies at age 81

    James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, who devoted his academic career to an institution he shaped with his zeal for technology, innovation and equality, has died at age 81.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.