Assistant Professor at Fuqua School of Business Dies

Nancy A. Staudenmayer, an assistant professor of management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business since 1997, died at home after a long illness. She was 36. Staudenmayer's death was discovered Tuesday when Durham police went to her home after family members expressed concern, according to Duke Police. A specialist in corporate strategy, she taught the Foundations of Strategy course to first-year students at Fuqua. "Nancy was a highly respected and popular teacher and researcher," Dean Rex D. Adams said. "She cared passionately about the community and intellectual climate of Fuqua and worked hard to help build and sustain it." Staudenmayer graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1986 with a B.A. degree in mathematics and economics, and she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her M.A. degree in applied statistics from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She taught at Sloan before coming to Fuqua. "In her short time here she became a wonderful colleague and a significant presence in the intellectual life of the school, " Adams said. "She took special interest in our doctoral students and in doctoral education. We will all miss her." A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Duke Chapel.