Robert A. Lue (23 May 1964 – 11 November 2020) was a researcher and an academic. On 1 March 2013, he became the inaugural Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. He was formerly Professor of the Practice of

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and

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, and the Director of

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Education at

. Since 2008, he was the Faculty Director of the Harvard-Allston Education Portal. He was recognized for his contributions to molecular animation. Lue died on 11 November 2020 of cancer at the age of 56.

Early life and education

Robert Lue grew up in

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, where he said he developed his fascination with the natural world. He is of Chinese and Romanian descent. Robert Lue graduated from St. George's College in 1980, and went on to graduate from the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private, Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Boston. Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the olde ...

. After taking a year off to paint at

Brandeis University Brandeis University is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jews, Jewish community, Brandeis was established on t ...

, he went to Harvard to complete a Ph.D in cellular biology.

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1964 births 2020 deaths People from Queens, New York Harvard University faculty College of the Holy Cross alumni Harvard University alumni Cell biologists American animators American people of Chinese descent American people of Romanian descent Scientific animators Deaths from cancer in New York (state) {{US-biologist-stub