In Memoriam

Soja studied and extensively wrote about regional development, planning and governance, and the spatiality of social life in Los Angeles and other cities.

Helen 'Lena' S. Astin, Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCLA and senior scholar at the Higher Education Research Institute, died on Oct. 27 in Los Angeles at the age of 83 after a prolonged illness.

Richard F. Heck, a UCLA alumnus who captured the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died Friday in Manila after suffering for years from a number of illnesses, including prostate cancer and diabetes. He was 84.

H. Viscount “Berky” Nelson — a mentor, mediator and role model for generations of students during his four-decade career at UCLA — died Oct. 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness.

Ornitz was a pioneer in establishing the brain-based nature of autism.

Rich Bertolucci, associate sports information director for UCLA Athletics, died on July 28, following a long battle with cancer. He was 56.

Professor of art history Irene Bierman-McKinney, lauded by a colleague as 'one of the unsung intellectual forces of our field of Islamic art and architecture,' died on March 8, 2015.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

Chris Burden, renowned conceptual artist and a professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Art, died of cancer on May 10 at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.

Dr. Marshall T. Morgan, 73, died Thursday, April 16, in Los Angeles after being ill for several months. A professor of clinical medicine and chief of emergency medicine at UCLA, he was widely recognized as an outstanding physician.

Delia N. Salvi, 87, a professor emerita in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, an accomplished actress, artist and author, died March 1 in Los Angeles after a brief illness.

With Nimoy’s death Friday, a planned April 10 artist talk in Royce Hall has been cancelled. Refunds are available.

John Goodlad, former dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983, died in Seattle on Nov. 29 at age 94. He was the author of a seminal book on the largest study of U.S. schools ever conducted at the time.

Ralph H. Turner, a UCLA sociologist who played a founding role in the development of the field of collective behavior and social movements, died April 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 94.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

Professor emeritus of anthropology Peter Hammond, who traveled the world for his academic studies and ethnographic research, died on Oct. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 86.

Natividad “Nati” Cano, Grammy-winning mariachi leader and former director of the Music of Mexico Ensemble at UCLA, died Oct. 3. Cano played a major role in bringing mariachi music from local cafes to concert halls around the world.

Gerald Wilson, 96, a music legend who enlivened packed jazz history classes at UCLA with his memories of working with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and other jazz icons, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles two weeks after contracting pneumonia.

Dr. Saleh Salehmoghaddam died on Sept. 11, in Los Angeles. He was 66. For more than 30 years, he served as an exceptionally devoted physician and teacher.

Dr. John L. Fahey, an emeritus professor in UCLA's departments of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics and of medicine, and a key member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, died on Aug. 19, 2014.

Dr. George Bartzokis, a UCLA neuroscientist who originated the theory that the degeneration of the brain’s myelin contributed to many developmental and degenerative diseases, died on August 22.

In nearly 30 years as a faculty member and administrator at UCLA, Rich led efforts to improve undergraduate education, increased support for teaching and played a key role in restructuring the professional schools and academic programs to enhance academic quality.

Michael Intriligator, a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA who played an influential role in the establishment of the School of Public Affairs, died on June 23 after a three-year battle with melanoma. 

Robert Steinberg, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics, died on May 25. He was 92.

Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.