Long before J. Christopher Stevens was the U.S. ambassador to Libya, he was hitting the books at Moffitt Library as a UC Berkeley student studying for his Arabic finals. Stevens, who was killed at the age of 52 after the American consulate in Benghazi was attacked Tuesday night, is remembered Read More…
Popular modern artist Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light” and briefly a UC Berkeley student, died in his Northern California home Friday. He was 54. Known for his mass-produced and marketed paintings of popular realistic, bucolic and idyllic subjects, Kinkade was at one time a studio art major at Read More…
James Leiby, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the School of Social Welfare, died at his home in Berkeley on Feb. 12. He was 89. Leiby retired from campus in 1989. He taught social welfare policy and history and was the head of the undergraduate program of library research for 25 Read More…
William Theophilus Brown, a UC Berkeley alumnus and American painter associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, died Feb. 8 in his apartment at San Francisco Towers. He was 92. Brown came to know some of the biggest names in art throughout his career, according to a September essay written Read More…
Vladimir Debabov, a UC Berkeley junior in the Haas School of Business, died Saturday after being the victim of a hit-and-run near Davis. He was 21. The incident occurred at about 3:50 a.m., when Debabov was walking north on Highway 113 and was struck by a vehicle, which left after Read More…
Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990, died at home on Saturday after an extended battle with emphysema. He was 81. During his tenure as chancellor, Heyman focused on a wide variety of issues, most notably increasing diversity, spearheading the campus’s first major fundraising campaign — Read More…
Winkelstein was most noted for his pioneering study of AIDS in the 1980s, study of heart disease in women and finding a link between tobacco and cervical cancer, according to his colleague, campus Professor of Biostatistics Steve Selvin. Read More…
UC Berkeley graduate Sharmi Doshi, known for her sense of humor, eloquence and passion, died in the early hours of Monday morning after falling off a building in India. She was 23. Doshi, who graduated from UC Berkeley in spring 2010, sustained fatal injuries after falling from the 11th floor Read More…
Friends, family and students are remembering the UC Berkeley guest lecturer and world renowned Israeli neuropsychologist who died Friday evening shortly after a bicycle collision near the intersection of Bancroft Way and Fulton Street. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumnus and former journalist Christopher Norton died on June 22 at his home in Sebastopol, Calif., after a battle with liver cancer. Norton was 62. Read More…
