In memoriam

William David Schaefer, an emeritus professor of English at UCLA who served as executive vice chancellor from 1978 to 1987 under Chancellor Charles Young, died Jan. 12 in Los Angeles after a long illness at age 87. While Schaefer was executive vice ...

The professor emeritus of the UCLA Department of History died on Jan. 16.

Terasaki, who earned three degrees from UCLA, developed the test that became the international standard method for tissue typing and was a generous benefactor to his alma mater.

Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Leavitt passed away on Nov. 27 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.

Jack Share, who in the 1970s served as an assistant professor in UCLA’s Special Education Division and the Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 4 at Kaiser Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Dr. Harold Hargis, a well-known UCLA professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, died on Nov. 17 at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 90.

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.

Leon Letwin, a UCLA law professor and social justice activist who defended the rights of Angela Davis, among others, and advocated to increase enrollment of blacks and Latinos in Los Angeles-area law schools, died July 13 in State College, Pennsylvania.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.

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.

Richard C. Hawkins, 92, a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television who directed full-length ethnographic films, including two on the care of pre-school children in China and the Nuer tribe in Kenya, died Jan. 29 in Los Angeles.

Dr. Victor Marder, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in the field of hematology research, died Jan. 29 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

Professor Emeritus Robert Burr, one of the country’s leading authorities on Latin American history, passed away on Dec. 8 following cardiac arrest in Port Jefferson, Long Island.

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.