In Memoriam

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics remembers our past faculty members who have died. We created this page not only to honor them, but also as an appreciation for the knowledge and expertise they had shared with countless UMass Amherst students through the years.

Stephen Allen (1915-2007)	PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1963 Joined UMass in 1948 as an Instructor; later promoted to assistant and associate professor Retired 1981
Mary K. Bennett (1940-1997)	PhD, UMass, 1966 (the first PhD granted by our department!) Research: lattice theory obituary
Melvyn Berger (1939-2005)	PhD, Yale, 1964 Became Professor Emeritus in 2003 Research: nonlinear PDE
Donald Catlin (1936-2016)	PhD, University of Florida, 1965 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 2001 Research: stochastic estimation and control, Kalman filtering, navigation and guidance
Haskell Cohen (1920-2012)	PhD, Tulane University, 1953 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 1995 Research: topology; semigroups
Helen Cullen (1919-2007)	PhD, University of Michigan, 1950 Joined UMass in 1949 Became Professor Emerita in 1992 Research: topology
David J. Dickinson (1920-1997)	PhD, University of Michigan, 1954 Research: special functions
Richard Ellis (1947-2018)	PhD, Courant (NYU) 1972 Joined UMass in 1975 Research: probability theory, large deviations memorial conference
John Fogarty (1934-2009)	PhD, Harvard, 1966 Joined UMass in 1972 Became Professor Emeritus in 2008 Research: algebraic geometry
David Foulis (1930-2018)	PhD, Tulane University, 1958 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 1997 Research: algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics
Michael Gauger (1945 - 2021)	PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1971 Joined UMass in 1972 Became Professor Emeritus in 2001 Research: lie algebras obituary
David Hayes (1937-2011)	PhD, Duke University, 1963 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 2002 Research: number theory
Samuel S. Holland, Jr. (1928-2018)	PhD, Harvard, 1961 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 1997 Research: lattice theory
James E. Humphreys (1939-2020)	PhD, Yale, 1966 Joined UMass in 1974 Became Professor Emeritus in 2003 Research: representation theory obituary department news item
Henry Jacob ( -2005)	PhD, Yale, 1951 Joined UMass in 1962 Became Professor Emeritus in 1987 Research: algebra
Melvin Janowitz (1929-2015)	PhD, University of Minnesota, 1950 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 2000 Research: lattice theory
Eleanor Killam (1933-2018)	PhD, Yale, 1960 Joined UMass in 1960 Became Professor Emerita in 1991 Research: ring theory
Hsu-Tung Ku (1933-2021)	PhD, Tulane University, 1967 Joined UMass in 1968 Became Professor Emeritus in 2001 Research: geometry and topology
Mei-Chin Ku (1937-2021)	PhD, Tulane University, 1967 Joined UMass in 1970 Became Professor Emeritus in 2002 Research: geometry and topology
Teng-sun Liu (1932-2009)	PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1963 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 2002 Research: transformation groups
Charles H. Randall (1928-1987)	PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1967 Joined UMass in 1967(?) Research: lattice theory, foundations of quantum mechanics
Walter Rosenkrantz (1938-2017)	PhD, University of Illinois, 1963 Joined UMass in 1971 Became Professor Emeritus in 2004 Research: Markov processes, modeling of network traffic
Berthold Schweizer (1929-2010)	PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1956 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 1995 Research: probability obituary
Morris Skibinsky (1925-2007)	PhD, University of North Carolina, 1954 Joined UMass in 1968 Became Professor Emeritus in 1994 Research: statistics
Doris Stockton (1924-2018)	PhD, Brown University, 1958 Joined UMass in 1954 Became Professor Emerita in 2006 Research: partial differential equations obituary
Marshall Stone (1903-1989)	PhD, Harvard, 1926 Joined UMass as George D. Birkhoff Professor in 1968 Became Professor Emeritus in 1980 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1938 President, American Mathematical Society, 1943-44 President, International Mathematical Union, 1952-54 National Medal of Science, 1982 Research: functional analysis, Boolean algebra, topology, quantum mechanics obituary
Wayman Strother (1923-2002)	PhD, Tulane University, 1952 Retired in 1989 Research: topology obituary