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It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Professor Daniel J. Brass, who conceived and directed the LINKS Center from its inception in 2006. Dan was the J. Henning Hilliard Professor of Innovation Management. He joined the University of Kentucky in 2000 after serving as a faculty member at Penn State University. 

Dan is universally recognized as one of the pioneers of network research in the field of organizations and management. His seminal research applying a network lens to power and politics in organizations inspired vibrant streams of research and significantly contributed to our understanding of this field. His articles made a profound and lasting impact on the study of social networks in organizations. Over the course of his career, he applied the network perspective to a wide variety of subfields in management and organizational psychology, garnering almost 40,000 citations to his research, as well as multiple research awards. Dan’s research was featured in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Strategic Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Social Networks. He served as Associate Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly for 12 years and guided many influential network papers. Authors remember him as a kind, thoughtful, and collaborative editor who made manuscripts better.  In his free time, Dan enjoyed painting landscapes. He was also an accomplished topiarist, whose work appeared in Topiary Today as well as on the cover of Administrative Science Quarterly.

We are grateful for Dan's many contributions to the field. He is missed dearly.