In Memoriam

A fixture at UCLA basketball games long after her father retired from coaching, she often sat among friends and family in section 103 of Pauley Pavilion.

Moerman united the fields of ethnography and conversation analysis, and published the seminal work “Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis.”

Rose, whom a former student said “normalized academic and intellectual struggle as being simply part of the way we learn,” died Aug. 15.

UCLA’s Robin D. G. Kelley called him “among the most prolific and brilliant historians of any generation.”

Lewis’ support helped fuel the rebuilding of campus following the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Snyder’s research areas included performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy and film as a method of preserving and documenting dance.

Donahue was the winningest coach in Pacific-12 conference and UCLA football history.

The visionary leader served the campus as vice chancellor of medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from 1994 to 2010.

The professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering joined the UCLA faculty in 1967.

Scholar of housing economics and policy, both domestic and international, often focused on low-income housing.

Professor emeritus was founding chair of UCLA’s environmental health sciences department.

The son of migrant workers became California’s first Latino Supreme Court justice.

During her decades on campus, Reiff, who died on May 4, served as a voice for good university governance and pedagogical innovation.

The senior continuing lecturer in the communication department died Jan. 21 in Los Angeles from complications related to COVID-19.

Arora, whose career at UCLA spanned nearly 40 years, died March 23 in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

The prolific author and educational leader was an award-winning teacher and caring mentor to generations of urban planners.

The scholar of reading and international development spent six decades at UCLA.

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, he also was associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research for 25 years.

The founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering died March 20.

One of her projects was coordinating the five-year seismic retrofitting of Powell Library.

Dr. Jonathan Fielding called her “the consummate public health practitioner and teacher.”

Itoh led breakthroughs in using the microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum for electronics and communication technologies.

Mare, a UCLA distinguished professor of sociology a global expert on social inequality and demographic trends, died of leukemia in his home in Marina Del Rey on Feb. 1.

Ridley was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor in UCLA’s English department.

Arrick died Sept. 21, 2020, from complications from previous strokes.