In Memoriam | Yale News

Robert A.M. Stern poses on a balcony of the Yale School of Architecture, with Harkness Tower visible behind him

Robert A.M. Stern, prolific architect, charismatic educator, galvanizing dean

Kai Erikson

Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist and historian of disaster

Stephen R. Anderson

Remembering Stephen Anderson

From Yale Linguistics

Jan Nichols Murdock

Jan Nichols Murdock, longtime Yale employee, poet, and one of the university’s first ‘nontraditional’ students

Werner Wolf

Werner Wolf, physicist and ardent advocate for engineering at Yale

Catherine Skinner

H. Catherine Skinner, research scientist and former Head of Jonathan Edwards College

Wen-tao Cheng

Wen-tao Cheng, celebrated Taiwanese poet and Yale faculty member

Fred Smith boarding a FedEx plane

Fred Smith ’66, FedEx founder and champion of Yale carbon capture research

From Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture

Thomas J. Harper

Thomas J. Harper, scholar of Japanese literature

Julia Alexander

Julia Alexander, distinguished art curator and art historian

Bentley Layton

Bentley Layton, distinguished Coptic linguist and scholar of ancient Christianity

Keith Stewart Thomson

Keith Stewart Thomson, scholar, curator, and former GSAS dean

Matthew Eisaman

Eisaman, a pioneer in the field of marine carbon removal and valued colleague

Sharyn Wilson, associate secretary and loyal keeper of Corporation records

David Smith, pioneer of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

From Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Peter E. Schwartz, founding leader of Yale’s gynecologic oncology division

From School of Medicine

Philip Zimbardo, beloved educator who became a ‘public face’ of psychology

Mary Helen Goldsmith, plant biologist, environmentalist, Silliman head

Harry Levit, beloved admissions officer for nearly four decades

William R. Burch Jr., pioneering scientist in social and community forestry

From School of the Environment