Publisher: Daily Memphian

Music legends, corporate titans and community leaders are among the Memphians who died throughout the past year.

In the animated classic “Ratatouille,” a rat named Remy wants to become a chef, and he’s encouraged by the words of his hero Chef Gusteau: “Anyone can cook.”

The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc. and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have named Melissa Robinson the chief development officer and associate vice chancellor for Advancement.

Dr. Frederick M. Azar, a longtime Memphis orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, has been named the new Harold Boyd Chair of the UT Health Science Center-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

A Houston-based developer plans to build a multi-billion-dollar, 1.7 million-square-foot mixed-use development Downtown that will include a hotel, apartments, retail and a technology hub.

Matt McDaniel has been named the director of the Tennessee Rural Health Care Center of Excellence.

Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D., is a virologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and, over the years, she’s developed a deep understanding about how our brains are protected.

Recently when Larry Knox visited his stepfather Dr. Murray Heimberg in the hospital, Heimberg said, “Thank you for being willing to be my son.”