Hello Everyone, Since Friday afternoon, I have struggled to put into words the kind of adviser Dennis Slice was to his students to supplement the elegant testimonies to his abilities as a researcher, but words fail me. I do not know how I can properly portray the care and compassion that he afforded us. Despite his many accomplishments, he remained humble and never spoke down to us. He listened to our concerns with compassion and our ideas with an open mind. He treated us like family, and I know that I am not alone in saying that we felt the same way about him. Our weekly lab meetings and monthly lab dinners form some of my happiest memories of graduate school because he infused humor into our every interaction. He taught me so many things, both professionally (like people are more likely to read emails that are broken into smaller blocks) and personally (like a gentleman should always carry a handkerchief in case a lady cries). I can only hope that I as a professor will be able to foster curiosity and confidence in my students half as well as Dennis did in me.
I deeply miss Dennis, and I suspect I always will. Thank you for your time, James Soda On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:19 AM Carmelo Fruciano <c.fruci...@unict.it> wrote: > This is extremely sad news. He has made enormous contributions to our > field and his figure will be greatly missed. I have had limited > interactions with him but, based on the interactions I had the privilege > to have, I also concur with Mauro Cavalcanti that he had a nice sense of > humor. > My most heartfelt condolences to his family, his friends, and all our > field. > Carmelo > > > -- > > > ================== > Carmelo Fruciano > Institute of Biology > Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris > CNRS > http://www.fruciano.it/research/ > > > On 15/06/2019 16:55, mitte...@univie.ac.at wrote: > > Dear subscribers to morphmet, > > > > With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden > > death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice, > > holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics > > and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup, > > who suffered a heart attack in his home town of > > Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same > > without him. > > > > Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins, > > Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019 > > > > -- > > MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org > > --- > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org > > <mailto:morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org>. > > -- > MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org > --- > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org. > > -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
