M. Judith Charles

M. Judith Charles, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology died Oct. 4, 2004, at her Davis home after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 51.

Born Nov. 2, 1952, in Newark, N.J., she grew up in New Jersey and earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy in 1974 from the University of Vermont, a master's in environmental engineering sciences in 1979 from the University of Florida, and a doctorate in environmental and industrial health in 1984 from the University of Michigan.

Charles had been at UC Davis since July 1996. Her work included examining the health effects of pollutants, including PCBs, and linkages between those and breast cancer and neurodevelopment in early childhood.

Before coming to Davis, she was a research associate professor and director of the mass spectometry faculty at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

She was the recipient of several awards, including the 1999 Faculty Development Award at UC Davis. Charles wrote or contributed to more than 40 publications in her field.

Memorial donations may be made to support UC Davis breast cancer research at http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cancer/help/memorial.html.

Paul Daniel Hoeprich

Paul Daniel Hoeprich, an original faculty member of the UC Davis School of Medicine, died of complications of lymphoma Sept. 16 in Fairfax, Va. He was 80.

Hoeprich joined the newly formed UC Davis School of Medicine as a professor of internal medicine in 1967 and served on the faculty for 28 years. He headed the school's infectious diseases section until his retirement in 1995.

Born in Alliance, Ohio, he attended Harvard College on a scholarship and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1947. He served in the Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital from 1951 to 1953 and spent a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School.