Dr. Brian Berry, professor emeritus of economic, political and policy sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and a geographer renowned for his influential work in urban and regional research, died Jan. 2 at the age of 90. In 1975, Berry was the youngest social scientist ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Berry became dean of what was then the School of Social Sciences before he engineered its transformation into the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS). Most recently, in 2021, Berry earned the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Research Award. In 1983, he was named a fellow of UCL, and in 2012, he was reaffirmed as Distinguished Alumnus of UW and elected a fellow of the Regional Science Association International.