In memoriam

A UCLA alumna and staff member for 28 years, Loh died on Nov. 5. She was 58.

Bill Zaima, UCLA's first women's tennis coach who served the team in different roles for 40 years, died Thursday, Nov. 17, in Los Angeles due to illness. He was 69.

Donald Findley, who transformed a financially ailing student organization, ASUCLA, into a thriving enterprise at UCLA , with his business acumen and vision for the campus, died Sunday, Nov. 13.

The late professor of Spanish and Portuguese is being honored at the UCLA Faculty Center.

Kimberly “Kim” Dawn Irwin, a media relations representative at UCLA's medical enterprise and former newspaper reporter, died Oct. 7 following a brief illness. She was 55.

Dr. Steven Graff-Radford, an adjunct professor in the Section of Oral Medicine and Orofacial Pain, died Saturday, October 15 from cancer.

Richard Maxwell, UCLA School of Law dean emeritus and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, died Oct. 7 in Austin, Texas, on his 97th birthday.

Widely admired for her excellent teaching and extraordinary student mentorship, Donald died on Oct. 16 at the age of 43.

Donna F. Ver Steeg, a distinguished emerita professor from the UCLA School of Nursing, died of natural causes on Aug. 28 in Sacramento.

Distinguished scientists will speak at a day-long symposium honoring the late professor of astronomy for contributions he made to his field and his commitment to the environment.

The celebration will be held at UCLA’s Faculty Center on Friday, Sept. 9, starting at 4 p.m., and is open to the UCLA community.

Albert “Al” A. Barber, who served as vice chancellor of research programs at UCLA from 1971 to 1991, died at age 87 from lung cancer at his home in Upperville, Virginia, on July 30.

Mellinkoff, who transformed the fledgling UCLA School of Medicine into a nationally recognized academic institution, died on July 17 at age 96.

Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure.

Ren Mao, director of application development, died July 4 in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 37 years old. 

Richard Wain Young, 86, professor emeritus of anatomy, died May 18 surrounded by family members at his home in Hollywood. For more than 55 years, he worked at the medical school at UCLA and published his last book, “Human Origins and Evolution,” in 2014.

Jimmie D. White, 68, who served as a counselor, administrator and attorney advisor in UCLA Student Affairs for 35 years, died in Los Angeles on May 27 of cancer.  

A staff scientist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biochemistry, Amirsakis passed away on May 24.

Klug, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, died June 1 in a shooting in his office.

A memorial will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute.

A highly respected scholar with expertise in space plasma physics, Ashour-Abdalla also had a passion for teaching.

A physical chemist who joined the faculty in 1948, Scott died on May 1. He was 94.

Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition for establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service and public discourse, died March 21. He was 66.

Dan McLaughlin, who, for 37 years, headed an animation program at UCLA that was considered one of the finest in the country, died in his sleep on March 15 in West Hills, California. He was 83.

Jura played a major role in advancing scholarship in his field and in shaping UCLA’s Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics over the course of four decades.