Jim Schmolze was Chair of EECS from 2000 until the split into the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002. Jim continued as a member of the Computer Science Department until his life was cut short by pancreatic cancer in 2006. The Department voted to rename the Computer Science Department Prize as the James Schmolze Award for Excellence in Computer Science in Jim's honor.
Photo from the personal collection of Anselm Blumer