ASU remembers
Marylou Cheal
Professor, Department of Psychology
August 4, 2019
Dr. Marylou Cheal, 93, has passed away. Marylou earned her B.A from Oakland University, Michigan in 1969 and her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1973. She had a very active and influential career, with academic appointments from 1969-1995, primarily at the Neuropsychology Lab, Ralph Lowell Laboratories at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and later at the University of Dayton Research Institute at the Air Force Armstrong Laboratory in Mesa, Arizona and at the Department of Psychology at ASU. During those years, she won 14 research awards and published 130 journal articles, primarily on taste, olfaction, vision, and attention in animals and humans. She will be greatly missed by her colleagues, friends, and family, especially, her husband, James, and children.