Leonard Apt, 90, remembered for advances in pediatric ophthalmology

Dr. Leonard Apt, former director of the division of pediatric ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and one of the five founders of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, died Feb. 1 at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, of a brief illness. He was 90. Apt’s colleagues and friends knew him as an intelligent physician […]

Former UCLA professor enjoyed Russian poetry, inspiring students

Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a professor emeritus in the Slavic languages and literatures department and a Russian literature scholar, died Jan. 1 at his home in Los Angeles, after a long period of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 92. Markov’s colleagues and friends knew him as a witty man with a passion for Russian poetry, […]