Professors

She was the former Vice Chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

Nicholas Kittrie was a legal scholar, a law professor, and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of books about international law and morality including “Rebels With a Cause: The Minds and Morality of …

Tom Lyle was a comic book artist for both Marvel and DC, known for co-creating “Starman” and working on “Spider-Man” and the “Robin” miniseries and its sequels.

Predicted rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide would raise global temperatures.

First woman to command an operational air squadron.

Julius Lester, an author, musician, civil rights activist and university professor who made a late-life conversion to Judaism, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 78.

Director of the iconic horror film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Civil rights activist, historian, and journalist won a Pulitzer Prize.

Not everybody can face a terminal diagnosis with humor and wisdom — but Randy Pausch wasn’t just anybody.