Category: Obituaries
Piero Weiss, 83, pianist and musicologist at Peabody
October 17, 2011
Musicologist and pianist Piero Weiss, a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty since 1985, died of pneumonia on Oct. 2 at the age of 83. He was still teaching during the current semester. “Dr. Weiss improved a generation and a half of Peabody students,” wrote Paul Mathews, associate dean for academic affairs, in his blog […]
James Connaughton, pediatric psychiatrist, beloved teacher, 80
September 19, 2011
James Patrick Connaughton, professor emeritus of psychiatry and pediatrics and a superbly talented clinician who treated and cared for some of East Baltimore’s most vulnerable children, died on Sept. 11 at his Woodbrook home. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Connaughton, who was 80, had been treated for the disease at the Johns Hopkins […]
Joseph Brady, pioneering behavioral neuroscientist, dies at 89
August 15, 2011
Joseph Vincent Brady, an internationally renowned behavioral scientist and a Johns Hopkins faculty member for more than 40 years, died July 29 at the age of 89. He will be remembered, his colleagues say, not just as a researcher but as a revered teacher and mentor, successful program builder, avid boater and engaging man with […]
Nathan Krasnopoler, 20, Whiting School undergraduate
August 15, 2011
Nathan Krasnopoler, a 20-year-old undergraduate in the Whiting School of Engineering, died on the morning of Aug. 10 at the Gilchrist Center Howard County, a hospice near his family’s home in suburban Baltimore. His entire family was with him. Krasnopoler, a computer science major and a member of the class of 2013, was severely injured […]
Biologist Saul Roseman, 90, champion of serendipitous discovery
July 18, 2011
Saul Roseman, an emeritus professor who taught and conducted research for 46 years in the Department of Biology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died July 2 of congestive heart failure. He was 90. Roseman came to Johns Hopkins in 1965 and was named the Ralph S. O’Connor Professor of Biology in 1975. […]
Alison Geyh of SPH, 52, studied air pollution at ground zero
March 7, 2011
Alison Geyh, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, died Feb. 20 after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 52. Geyh joined the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in 2000 and built an international reputation with her work on air pollution, in which she applied her skills as a […]
Henry Tom, 64, longtime executive editor at JHU Press
February 7, 2011
Henry Y.K. Tom, longtime executive editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press, died unexpectedly on Jan. 10. He was 64. “Henry had retired just this summer,” said Press director Kathleen Keane, “and by all accounts was enjoying himself tremendously. His contributions to publishing and scholarship were many and well-known, and we are all deeply saddened […]
Richard Oles, JHU fencing coach for 44 years, dies at 77
February 7, 2011
Richard Francis “Dick” Oles, who coached Johns Hopkins fencing athletes to more than 600 team victories over 44 years, died Jan. 27 after being struck by a vehicle while walking during a snowstorm along Mountain Road in Anne Arundel County, near his home. He was 77. Oles was head coach of the university’s men’s fencing […]
Harry Marks, historian of medicine, dies at 64
February 7, 2011
Harry M. Marks, an associate professor in the History of Medicine Department at the School of Medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Professor of Medical History since 1989, died at his home in Baltimore on Jan. 25 of prostate cancer. He was 64. Author of The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic […]
Charles O’Melia, 76, expert in water, wastewater treatment
January 3, 2011
Charles R. O’Melia, one of the world’s leading water treatment researchers, who also mentored more than 100 environmental engineering graduate students during almost three decades at The Johns Hopkins University, died Dec. 16, at age 76. Mary O’Melia, his wife of 54 years, said that her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after Thanksgiving […]