He had inexhaustible patience, offered wise counsel and displayed an unlimited capacity to listen to and understand others' concerns and interests. Russell arrived at UCI in 1967 and served as vice chancellor of academic affairs while teaching as a professor of psychobiology, psychology and medical pharmacology and therapeutics. He left Irvine in 1972 to become vice chancellor of Flinders University in South Australia and returned to UCI in 1990 to volunteer as a research psychobiologist at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. In 1997, the UCI Alumni Association gave him its highest honor, the Extraordinarius award, at its annual Lauds and Laurels program. Russell's family has established an endowment that will fund an annual award for distinguished achievement by a graduate student or postdoctoral research fellow.
Many people walk in and out of our lives, but only a few leave footprints.
Roger Russell left footprints.