IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Nkechi Chiugo Mbaebie

FRIENDS AND FAMILY mourn the sudden loss of Nkechi “NK” Mbaebie, a 2015 graduate with an MPH in Epidemiology, who passed away on April 3, 2019, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Nkechi was a native of Nigeria, where she earned a medical degree from Enugu State University before coming to the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She distinguished…

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In Memoriam: Dr. John Mason

LONG-TIME PROFESSOR of nutrition, John Beverly Mason, passed away August 28, at the age of 74, after bravely battling cancer over the last eight years. Mason was born in Welwyn, England, in 1944, and earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Magdalene College and his doctorate in nutritional biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. His career prior to Tulane included…

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