Blackwood mastered the piano in Indianapolis and made solo appearances at 14 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He graduated from Yale University with a Master of Arts degree. From 1958 to 1997, Blackwood taught in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago with the titles of Professor and Professor Emeritus.
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management at the University of Chicago (emeritus since retiring in 2002), having served on the faculties of the Harris School of Public Policy and the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (then the School of Social Service Administration—SSA), where he was dean from 1983 to 1988.
Norman Lebovitz, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Chicago who taught for more than 40 years and worked to unravel the complex behaviors of stars and galaxies, died Dec. 28, 2022. He was 87.
