David M. Mark, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and an internationally recognized leader in the field of GIScience, died Sept. 24 after a brief illness. He was 74.
Thomas B. Burrows, who spent two decades leading the Center for the Arts and molding the performance venue into an important piece of Western New York’s arts and cultural scene, died Sept. 18 in Lewiston. He was 88.
J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, died April 20.
The School of Law and the Gender Institute will celebrate the life and legacy of longtime faculty member Isabel Marcus at a service on campus on May 11.
Isabel Marcus, a School of Law faculty member for more than 35 years and an internationally recognized champion for human rights, died Oct. 31 in Los Angeles after a period of declining health. She was 83.
Frederic J. Fleron Jr., professor emeritus of political science andan internationally renowned specialist in comparative politics focusing on the Soviet Union/Russia, died on June 2. He was 83.
Peter P. Ekeh, former chair and retired professor in the Department of African American Studies — now the Department of Transnational Studies — died Nov. 17. He was 83.
Susan Bennett, a longtime UB faculty member and pioneer in rehabilitation practices for people with multiple sclerosis, died June 4 after a battle with cancer. She was 64.
John C.G. Boot, professor emeritus and past chair of the Department of Management Science and Systems in the School of Management, died May 15 in Buffalo. He was 83.
Linda A. Lohr, longtime University Libraries staff member and curator of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection in the Health Sciences Library, died April 24.
Murray Levine, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Psychology and a longtime UB faculty member who in the 1960s helped launch the emerging field of community psychology, died May 4. He was 92.
Peter F. Regan III, a noted educator and psychiatrist who served as UB’s acting president during the period of campus unrest in the 1970s, died suddenly on April 5. He was 95.