Maha Ashour-Abdalla, a professor of physics and researcher with the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, with expertise in space plasma physics and a passion for teaching, died May 1. She was 72. Until very recently she was actively working on research and teaching. Her colleagues and students praised her as extremely dedicated, charismatic, engaging and loyal.

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