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Dr. Maya Angelou’s family has arranged a memorial service in Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel on Saturday, June 7 at 10 a.m.

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Nikky Finney, the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina, can discuss the life and legacy of poet and author Maya Angelou. Contact Peggy Binette to coordinate an interview.

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Today members of the Wake Forest University community mourn the loss of beloved poet, author, actress, civil rights activist and professor Dr. Maya Angelou.

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Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, 83, of the University of Chicago, died May 3 following complications from a recent surgery. He made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences.

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Ted Cohen, professor in Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago, died Friday, Mar. 14 after a brief hospitalization. He was 74.

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Gregory L. Hillhouse, University of Chicago chemistry professor and mentor extraordinaire, died March 6 of cancer at his home in Chicago. He was 59.

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Arthur M. Wolfe, an American astrophysicist who for a decade directed the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego and achieved widespread recognition for his discoveries about star formation and the early universe, died on February 17 following a battle with cancer in La Jolla, Calif. He was 74.

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“MHAUS mourns the death of one of the pioneers in the study of Malignant Hyperthermia, Dr. Michael Denborough (July, 11, 1929 to February 8, 2014) of Australia, says MHAUS President Henry Rosenberg, M.D. Dr. Denborough and colleagues were the first to describe the disorder that was later named Malignant Hyperthermia. He did seminal work in describing the clinical and genetic basis for human MH. He also worked with pigs who developed “porcine stress syndrome” and showed how those animals could be a model for human MH. Later in his life he worked hard as an advocate for anti-nuclear proliferation. He was a great scientist, and a wonderful human being.”

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In the wake of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, Loyola University Health System toxicologist Christina Hantsch, MD, FACEP, FACMT, is available to talk about the rise she has seen in heroin overdoses in recent years.

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John R. Huizenga, Tracy H. Harris Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Rochester and an internationally recognized leader in the field of nuclear science, died last Saturday in La Jolla, Calif.

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Legendary University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Paul J. Sally, Jr., who was known for his love of mathematics at all educational levels, died Dec. 30 at age 80.

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Timothy Danforth Baker, MD, MPH, professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was co-founder of the world’s first academic department of international health and founder of the general preventive medicine residency program.

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