Ann Dusing, Moshe Shapiro

 

The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, December 11, in remembrance.

Dusing, K.A. (Ann) – passed away on November 28, 2013.  Professor Emeritus Dusing was a UBC alumna, and taught in the Classics Department until her retirement in 1998.  A pioneer in telling the story of women in antiquity and making the details relevant to modern life, she was awarded the Killam Teaching Prize in 1997.  A celebration of Ann’s life is planned for January 24, 2013.  Please contact the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies for more information.

 Shapiro, Moshe – passed away on December 3, 2013 in Israel.  Professor Shapiro was Canada Research Chair in Quantum Control in the  Department of Chemistry , an Associate Member of the Department of  Physics and Astronomy, and an active Associate at the Peter Wall Institute.