• Joel Brown

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    Joel Brown is a staff writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. He’s written more than 700 stories for the Boston Globe and has also written for the Boston Herald and the Greenfield Recorder. Profile

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There are 4 comments on ENG’s Herbert Voigt Remembered as Dedicated Researcher, Mentor

  1. Nice tribute, Joel. I knew Herb from overlapping kids and town politics in Milton. He and Ronit were on the right side of every (difficult) issue, and worked hard to make Milton a better town. I will miss him.

  2. What a sad shock. Herb was truly a “scholar and a gentleman.” Sincere condolences to his wonderful family. To Joel Brown, your obituary really captured the man.

  3. Another service that Herb Voigt rendered was to serve as the Chair of the Faculty Assembly / Faculty Council during 2003-4, an important transitional period for the University. His calm, diligent, and thoughtful leadership helped usher in the opportunity for subsequent Faculty Council Chairs to serve on the Boston University Board of Trustees.

  4. I met firstly Herb in 2011 in IFMBE conference in Budapest when he presented his new ethical research. He warmly welcomed me and helped me many times to attend the IFMBE conferences. I remember he asked even the organizer to use his credit card and pay the registration fee on behalf of me because I had no credit card facility. I am now in IUPESM 2018 and just now knew that he has passed away. He is never be forgotten. He always believed that the only issue that can help a society to improve is: education and not execution. The united states of America is well known and introduced for Iranians only by such kind of great people like Herbert Voigt. I am sure that his soul is at peace and in paradise.

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