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In Remembrance: Barbara L. Holman ’45MN, ’55MPH Died on January 4 2013

Barbara Lucas Holman passed away January 4, 2013. Received Masters and PhD from Yale at a time when women rarely pursued higher education. In 1970, after her research at Columbia, she co-authored an article demonstrating that racial discrimination and work stress contribute to racial disparities in mortality, foreshadowing current reserach in stress-related disease. 

A full obituary was published in the New York Times on Sunday, May 12, 2013. 

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