Remembering Howard Stein

The Grand Valley community will remember Professor Emeritus Howard Stein with a memorial service in Cook-DeWitt at noon on October 14. Stein was a faculty member in the biology department from 1965 until 1997.

Stein died on September 14 at the age of 69. He was a faculty leader who served as chair of his department and the All Faculty Senate. He helped establish the Science Olympiad, the Academic Resource Center, the Research and Development Center, and the Regional Science and Math Center. He helped secure the first Eisenhower Grants for Teaching, as well as many other initiatives. He received the Distinguished Faculty Member Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Colleges and Universities in 1988.

Stein was devoted to providing students with experience in the real world activities of laboratory research. He provided students an opportunity to design and carry out real experiments as part of their course work and inspired and innovative structure for the cell and molecular biology course.

He has promoted the education of teachers through the Office of Biological Education of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Michigan Science Teachers Association. He was the founder of the GVSU Science and Mathematics Update Letter and editor from 1979-2002.

The Howard and Rose Stein scholarship fund was established in recognition of his service, leadership, and friendship. This scholarship was designed to aid students in two areas that Stein was passionately involved in, teacher education and experimental science.