There’s one factoid about Phyllis Strauss that people who knew her tend to bring up. She learned to ski in her 50s — and became so committed to it that she and her husband owned a place in the mountains of Vermont for a time.
“That’s an example of her energy,” says Kostia Bergman, a retired Northeastern biology professor who worked down the hall from Strauss for decades. “Phyllis was intense, and someone who worked very hard.”
Strauss, who died in September at age 82, brought that same intensity to Northeastern’s biology department, where she worked from 1973 to 2019. At retirement, she was a Matthews Distinguished Professor, with past appointments as a Professor of Biochemistry and as a Fulbright Scholar in India.
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