University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Terry Millar

Terry Millar died on Saturday, March 9, 2019 after a long battle with cancer.  Terry was a faculty member in the Math Department since 1976, retiring in 2015. After dropping out of college to join the Marines for two years (including a brief stint as forward artillery observer in Vietnam), Terry started graduate school at …

In Memoriam: Ed Fadell

Professor Emeritus Ed Fadell passed away on Jan. 11 at age 91 (almost 92). After graduating from OSU with a PhD degree, he went to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years before coming to Madison in 1955. He stayed at Madison both a distiguished researcher in Algebraic Topology and award winning teacher until …

Remembering Sufian Husseini

Sufian Husseini passed away late December 30, 2017 in Salem, Oregon, after months of health struggles. He was a faculty member from 1961 until his retirement in 2001.Sufian obtained his PhD at Princeton under Norman Steenrod and was an instructor at MIT before moving to Madison. His research was primarily in algebraic topology, on topics …