Dominick Purpura leadership in research and as our dean for 22 years — longest serving at a U.S. medical school — helped to shape Einstein during a time of dramatic realignments in healthcare. His research contributions spanned the field, from neurophysiology to the origin of brain waves, the effects of hallucinogenic agents, and the mechanisms of epilepsy.

Dr. (Rudolph) Terry Pivik was a highly respected researcher, mentor and professor in the areas of sleep and dreaming, psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and nutrition.

Fernando Reinoso-Suárez, medical doctor and scientist, passed away in Madrid, May 5, at 92 years of age. He was at the time Emeritus Professor at the Autónoma University of Madrid, an institution that he helped create.

Paul Greengard, an American neuroscientist whose 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided new insights into psychological diseases and earned him a Nobel Prize, and who used his entire $400,000 award to create an academic prize in memory of the mother he never knew, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.