Volume 25 · Number 4 · Summer 2008
In Memoriam
Eli Benjamini
Kiyoto “Kay” Uriu
Eli Benjamini, a medical microbiology and immunology faculty member in 1970–91, died in February in Huntington Beach at age 79. He helped establish UC Davis’ immunology graduate group and served as its chair for 10 years. He received the School of Medicine’s Faculty Research Award in 1977 and the Distinguished Scientist Award in Virology and Immunology from the Southwest Foundation of Biomedical Research in 1984. He wrote more than 150 scientific publications and co-authored the textbook Immunology: A Short Course, which is now in its fifth edition and has sold more than 180,000 copies worldwide. More . . .
S. Milton Henderson, a professor emeritus of biological and agricultural engineering who helped develop new technologies for pitting plums, drying grains and hops, cooling eggs and grinding animal feed, died in March at age 98. A faculty member in 1947–77, Professor Henderson was a longtime major adviser and served in 1964–65 as an associate dean. Co-author of a popular textbook, Agricultural Process Engineering, he helped incorporate biological sciences and food engineering into agricultural engineering studies. Among numerous honors, he received the 1977 Massey-Ferguson Gold Medal from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers for “dedication to the spirit of learning and teaching in the field of agricultural engineering.” More . . .
Tejinder “Ted” Sibia, a librarian at Shields Library in 1979–2005 who became a mentor for Punjabi students and chronicled the history of Indian pioneers in North American on his Web site sikhpioneers.org, died in March of leukemia in Sacramento. He was 70. More . . .
Kiyoto “Kay” Uriu ’49, M.S. ’50, Ph.D. ’53, a pomology faculty member in 1956–87, died in May in Davis two weeks before his 91st birthday. He was an internationally known expert on fruit and nut tree nutrition and irrigation. In 1987, the American Society for Horticultural Science honored him as Outstanding Undergraduate Educator. More . . .