A longtime professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Kenneth Dam also served as deputy secretary in the Department of State (1982-85) and Department of the Treasury (2001-03).
Prof. Emeritus Eugene N. Parker, a pioneering astrophysicist whose contributions to solar physics were so enormous that NASA named its Parker Solar Probe mission after him, died March 15. He was 94.
Prof. Emeritus Robert A. Butler, whose research focused on hearing—particularly involving the localization of sound and auditory perception—died Feb. 5 after a brief illness. He was 98 years old.