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Obituaries may be submitted to obituaries@sfn.org. Please include the deceased member's name and dates, a photo, a descriptive headline, a link to an external obituary, and the obituary text.
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Over the span of his career, Dr. Townsel's distinguished performance in the field yielded many awards and acknowledgements including the induction as a Fellow into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and receiving a Distinguished Alumni Award in Biology in 1999 from the School of Science from Purdue University. He contributed to over 90 publications, and directly trained and nurtured 15 postdoctoral associates. -
Famed pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. James T. Goodrich, who separated conjoined twins, died March 30. Einstein College of Medicine in New York City attributed his death to complications associated with COVID-19. He was 73.
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It saddens us to announce the death of John “Jerry” I. Simpson (80), Professor Emeritus at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Langone Health in New York. He passed away quietly on March 22 after having been continually hospitalized for 3 months. Jerry was well known in the cerebellar community for his intellect, his encyclopedic knowledge, his outgoing personality and wit, his entertaining lectures sprinkled with humor, and his thought-provoking questions.
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SfN Past President, Bruce S. McEwen, whose work transformed our understanding of how the brain changes throughout life, died on January 2 at age 81 after a brief illness. Best known for his studies on how stress hormones reshape neural circuits and brain structures, McEwen’s work has profound implications for public health, impacting conditions from normal aging to neurodegenerative disease, depression, and PTSD. -
A pioneer in vestibular research, April 30, 1929 – November 27, 2019.
