Obituaries

  1. May 20, 2025

    Obituary — Lawrence B. Mohr

    U-M Professor Emeritus Lawrence B. “Larry” Mohr died March 9 in Chicago, at the age of 93.

  2. May 19, 2025

    Obituary – James Christian Nissen

    James Christian Nissen, a former UM-Dearborn faculty member and U-M alumnus, has died. Nissen, of Ann Arbor, was 63.

  3. May 19, 2025

    Obituary — Charles Kowalski

    Professor Emeritus of Dentistry Charles Joseph Kowalski, who retired from U-M in 2009, died just days shy of his 87th birthday.

  4. May 14, 2025

    Remembering SEAS professor Michael R. Moore

    Michael R. Moore, professor of environment and sustainability in the School for Environment and Sustainability, died May 11.

  5. May 5, 2025

    Obituary — Milton Andrews Chace

    Longtime Ann Arbor resident and mechanical engineer, Milton Chace, died March 29, 2025, at University Hospital of a respiratory infection. He was 91

  6. April 28, 2025

    Obituary — Stevo Julius

    Stevo Julius, retired professor and former chair of the Division of Hypertension at the U-M Medical Center, died peacefully in his home April 11 after a lengthy illness.

  7. April 7, 2025

    Obituary — John Swales

    John Swales, professor emeritus of linguistics and former director of the English Language Institute, died peacefully March 18, 2025.

  8. February 3, 2025

    Obituary — Tong Wha Shyn

    Tong Wha Shyn of Saline, Michigan, a research scientist emeritus for the University of Michigan’s Space Physics Research Laboratory, died Jan. 26 at age 89.

  9. 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.

  10. October 7, 2024

    Obituary — Morton Brown

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