Longtime campus librarian, UC Berkeley alumnus dies
Dan Krummes, a UC Berkeley alumnus, former director of the campus Institute of Transportation Studies Library and longtime dog-lover, died of cancer last week. He was 62. Read More…
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Henry May, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of history, dies at 97
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Henry May, who is remembered for promoting unity on campus during the Free Speech Movement, died Saturday. He was 97. May graduated from UC Berkeley in 1937 and spent more than 25 years in the campus department of history. “He would be very attentive to what Read More…
Christopher Stevens, ambassador to Libya and UC Berkeley alumnus, dies at 52
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…
UC Berkeley epidemiology professor and AIDS research pioneer dies at 90
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…
Family and students remember UC Berkeley guest lecturer Shlomo Bentin
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 dies at 62
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…
Kinsey Anderson, UC Berkeley physics professor emeritus and space physicist, dies at 85
Space physicist and UC Berkeley physics professor emeritus Kinsey Anderson died June 11. He was 85. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumnus and longtime Berkeley resident found dead in Oakland
The body of a deceased male Oakland resident suffering from apparent stab wounds was found by Oakland Police Department officers last Thursday morning. Read More…
Friends and family remember UC Berkeley alum Tarek Saleh
UC Berkeley 2011 graduate Tarek Corwin Saleh, remembered for his caring and selfless nature, died early Saturday morning in a car accident at the Emeryville Marina. He was 25. Emeryville Police Department officers responded to the scene at 6:10 a.m. and identified Saleh after they retrieved his car from the Read More…
Campus alumnus and painter Thomas Kinkade dies at 54
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…