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  • Professor Sally Duensing, 1949-2015 4 November 2015 Sally Duensing, Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Education (GSoE) from 2005-2010, passed away last week after a lengthy hospitalisation. Justin Dillon, Head of GSoE, offers a remembrance.
  • Professor David Smith, 1951-2015 2 December 2015 David Smith, Professor of Engineering Materials ³Ô¹ÏÍø, died last month. His colleagues and friends Martyn Pavier and Chris Truman offer a remembrance.
  • Lin Hall, 1952-2015 3 July 2015 Lin Hall, an administrator within Professional Services, passed away in April aged 63. Dr David Langley, Director of Research and Enterprise Development, offers a tribute.
  • Professor Ronald Milne, 1930-2014 3 March 2014 Ronald Milne, former Dean of Engineering and a major contributor to research in aeronautics, died recently. Professor Gareth Padfield and Professor Dick Clements offer a tribute.
  • Tessa Goodman, 1933-2018 16 May 2018 Tessa Goodman, Admissions Clerk in the Academic Registrar's Office for over 30 years, died in March. Janet Windows, former Secretary in the Academic Registrar's Office, offers a commemoration.
  • Belinda Burke, 1954-2018 10 May 2018 Belinda Margaret Catherine Burke passed away in February. This remembrance contains contributions from her daughter Marie and from Simon Osborne, Technical Manager in the School of Chemistry.
  • Dr Yon Richard Mayhew, 1924-2013 17 February 2014 Dr Yon (‘John’) Mayhew, who taught in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for some 40 years, died in late 2013. Professor Robert Adams offers a tribute to an engineer who co-authored a highly influential textbook on engineering thermodynamics.
  • Professor Jake MacMillan FRS, 1924-2014 29 May 2014 Jake MacMillan, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry, died recently. Professor Chris Willis offers a tribute.
  • Tony Philpott, 1938-2014 14 February 2014 Generations of Bristol Geography staff and students will learn with sadness of the death in January of Tony Philpott at the age of 75. Emeritus Professor Peter Haggett offers a tribute.
  • Natalya Leonidovna Gogolitsyna, 1948-2018 7 March 2018 Dr. Natalya Gogolitsyna, Russian language teacher in the School of Modern Languages, passed away on 17 January at the age of 69. Derek Offord, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Russian, offers a remembrance

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