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Published October 8, 2015 This content is archived.
Kenneth H. Kurtz, a faculty member for more than 40 years in the Department of Psychology, died Sept. 21 in Elderwood at Williamsville. He was 86.
A native of Buffalo, Kurtz received a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1949 from UB, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
After serving in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he joined the UB faculty in the late 1950s.
He was an author of the textbook “Foundations of Psychological Research: Statistics, Methodology and Measurement” and published numerous articles in scholarly publications throughout his career.