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Dr. Carla Wofsy, a member of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and former professor at the University of New Mexico, died at home on Monday, August 4, 2003, after a long and courageous struggle with breast cancer. She was 59 and lived in Santa Fe. Carla Wofsy was born in New York City on May 13, 1944, to Rosalind and Leon Wofsy. She earned a bachelor s degree at the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She taught at Sir George Williams University in Montreal and the University of Pittsburgh before she joined the faculty of the Mathematics and Statistics department at UNM. Dr. Wofsy was an outstanding professor and researcher who won numerous teachings awards and other honors during her more than twenty years at UNM. Her scientific research focused on the use of mathematical models to explore problems in cell biology. She published over fifty scientific papers- more than thirty of them with her longtime collaborator and husband, Byron Goldstein, a biophysicist in LANL s Theoretical Division. Dr. Wofsy is survived by her husband; her daughter; her parents; her brother; her niece and nephew; and many beloved friends. All who knew her will miss her dearly. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2003, at Temple Beth Shalom on 205 East Barcelona in Santa Fe. Memorial Contributions may be directed to any organization dedicated to the defense and preservation of civil rights and civil liberties, including the ACLU, the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, Lambdga Legal Defense Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Arrangements are under the direction of Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, 1399 Luisa Street, 984-8600
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