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Honoring an Educational Pioneer

November 11, 2018

Family and friends gather with Arthur E. Maxwell (third from left) at festivities at WHOI in September 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Maxwell joined WHOI in 1965, serving as WHOI’s director of research and provost and playing an instrumental role in the development of the Joint Program. Maxwell’s daughter and son-in-law, Delle Maxwell and Pat Hanrahan, contributed a total of $2.5 million to the program in honor of Maxwell, of which $1 million went to the Arthur E. Maxwell Graduate Student Fund at WHOI. Established in 2003 by Jamie Austin, Ph.D. ’79, to honor his mentor, the Fund provides annual support for first-year graduate students. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)