Walter Bo, PhD, former faculty member in the Department of Anatomy at the UND medical school, died March 21, 2009 at Winston-Salem, NC. He was 86.

A native of Chisholm, MN, Dr. Bo earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Marquette University and the doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1953. He then began his teaching career at UND and, in 1960, joined the faculty at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine where he remained as a full professor for 47 years.

In 1980, he collaborated on the medical reference book, The Basic Atlas of Sectional Anatomy, which continued publication through a fourth edition. He was recognized for outstanding teaching with the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaster Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as numerous other awards for excellence in teaching and distinguished faculty awards from the medical school.

At the time of his death, Dr. Bo was a professor emeritus of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.