It’s been a little over 10 years since former biophysics professor Angelica Liu’s husband, professor Hsin Ti Tien passed away.

Tien, who was a physiology professor here at MSU, died unexpectedly May 30, 2004. Liu and Tien both worked in Giltner Hall together.

According to Liu, he was considered one of the founding fathers behind the concept of plant lipid bilayers and had many more things he wanted to accomplish before he suddenly passed.

Liu said she still remembers the day when she walked out of the corridor in Giltner Hall with him for the last time, May 18, 2004.

“He started to talk like some kind of premonition,” said Liu. She said he had asked her to promise him to continue working on the book he had started writing in.

Liu decided to carry on his legacy by continuing his life’s work.

“His death took everything out of his hands. I tried to continue writing books in his memory until 2010,” said Liu.

Liu has written in ten different volumes of the book ‘Advances in Planar Lipid Bylayers and Liposomes,’ which were published by Elsevier, which is an academic publishing company based in Amsterdam that distributes all over the world.

Tien was listed as the founding editor for each of these publications as Liu was listed as the editor. Each publication featured different scholars from all over the world, while Liu wrote 30-50 pages for each one, which were about 300 pages each.

Liu, who volunteers in the International Center helping international students, said she still visits her late husband’s grave at Leek cemetery in Ingham County at least five times per year. She also attends church services every Nov. 1 and 2.

Both of those days are days to commemorate the dead, Nov. 1 being All Saint’s Day and Nov. 2 being All Soul’s Day.

Liu said she thinks people should celebrate those who have passed more often.

“Everything we celebrate is alive, I don’t like it. Death shouldn’t be something where some body is forgotten forever. It shouldn’t be like that.”