Suara Adediran

1948 - 2022

Suara Adediran
November 11, 2022
Suara Adedeji Adediran, 74, of Middletown CT, passed away on November 11th 2022 after battling Glioblastoma for a few months. He is survived by his wife of 46 years (Olusola Abeni Adediran), children (Adekemi, Ayodeji, Adeyemi, and Adegoke), grandkids, brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces.
Suara was born in Oyo State in the western part of Nigeria on January 27, 1948. He completed his secondary school education at Ibadan Boys High School in Ibadan. He then went on to pursue his undergraduate education at the University of Ibadan, graduating with a Bachelors of Science (BSc) in Chemistry in 1973. After his undergraduate degree, he earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Ibadan in 1979. Following his PhD program, he completed his postgraduate training at various institutions including University of Ibadan, Institute of Biophysics and Genetics, Napoli, Italy, and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Genoa, Italy. He was a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 1981 to 1982, and a National Institute of Health Research Fellow at the University of Kansas, Kansas City, US from 1985 to 1986.
He immigrated to the US and lived in Middletown, CT with his wife until his passing. Before moving to the United States, he was a Professor of Chemistry and later Head of Department at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria from 1979 to 1999. From 1999 till his passing, he was a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, a town he loved. He was also an adjunct professor at various universities in Connecticut including Quinnipiac University, Fairfield University, University of Hartford, Goodwin University and Middlesex Community College.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He published/co-authored 55 research papers in different journals all around the world; he published his last paper months before his passing in a Nigerian Science Journal (Proceedings of Nigerian Academy of Science) honoring his country of birth.
Suara was a dedicated family man, a mentor to many, an avid chess player, a philanthropist, and a devout Muslim. He is dearly missed by his wife, children, grandchildren, and by his many mentees, former students, friends and family.