It is with much sadness that the Department of Physics announces the passing of several members of our community.

• Melanie Knouse Cline, a coordinator in the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), died on June 3, 2024.
• Robert Dewar, a former postdoctoral associate, died on April 5, 2024.
• Robert Goldstein, an alumnus, died on Sept. 4, 2024.
• Charles Hussar, an alumnus and donor, died on March 30, 2024.
• Verne Kauppe (B.S., '71), who worked in multisensor and microwave remote sensing, died on September 8, 2024.
• William Kuperman (Ph.D., '72), former Director of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,  died on June 30, 2024. 
• Ernest Madsen (B.S. and M.S.), a medical physicist at the University of Wisconsin, died on August 24, 2024.
• Martin Vol Moody, an experimentalist working on gravitation, died on August 18, 2024.  
• Robert L. Parker, (Ph.D.,'60) who worked in metallurgy for the U.S. government, died on April 21, 2024.
• Joseph Perez (Ph,D., '68), former head of the Auburn University Physics Department, died on July 25, 2024.
• Edward "Joe" Redish, an acclaimed researcher and Professor Emeritus, died on August 24, 2024.
• Paul Richardson, a physicist with the U.S. Bureau of Mines, died on May 29, 2024.