The UNH community, along with dozens of people around the nation, will be mourning the loss of a significant and inspiring scholar this month. Dean Marilyn Hoskin of the College of Liberal Arts described Dr. B. Thomas Trout as supremely fair, full of integrity, and a committed scholar. He passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 11, in his Portsmouth home after battling cancer since September 2005.

Trout was the school’s senior person in international affairs, an intelligence expert with a profound knowledge of the Soviet Union. Trout was also a nationally recognized scholar of national and international security, as well as American and Soviet defense policy, for more than three decades. His national faculty seminar presentations on the ways that national security and global issues are taught have made an impact on dozens of college campuses. Dr. Trout joined the Department of Political Science in 1968, and had served as chair of the department.