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In memorium

May 1, 2015

Malloch served as the complex director at Snyder and Phillips halls and also as the adviser to the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Student Council when he died in March 2012.

Paul Hunter, who was a chemistry professor, died in March 2012. He loved teaching and valued the time spent with students and colleagues.

Baker, also a chemistry professor, died shortly after collapsing on MSU’s campus during a jog in October 2012.

He was the founding director of MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, he helped spearhead bringing the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams to MSU and was a gardener.

The 5-year-old son of history professor John Waller brought joy and laughter to those around him, even as he battled a rare and inoperable brainstem tumor.

Although he died in December 2013 after a long battle, he “left a powerful legacy by bringing laughter and friendship to so many,” his father said in a statement following his son’s passing.

She was a princess, a dancer, a singer, an MSU basketball superfan — and if anyone who asked her who former-MSU basketball forward Adreian Payne was, she would say her big brother.

The 8-year-old superfan died in April 2014 after battling with neuroblastoma, but not before touching the lives of the MSU’s basketball team and much of the campus community.

Greg Reuter

Reuter was a theater professor when he died at the age of 43 on Dec. 18, 2014. After his death, students painted at the rock on Farm Lane to honor the man who had taken such pride in their work.

Levy was a distinguished faculty member in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences who had been with MSU for more than 15 years when he died on Feb. 7.

Rush was the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. He died on March 27 and will be remembered for laying the foundation for the art museum.

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