Two obituaries from today’s Globe:

Dr. Ernest Unhoi Do, a research biochemist and teacher of Buddhism, died July 1 at Lahey Clinic in Burlington of complications from liver disease. He was 66.

Born in rural Sung Jou, South Korea, Dr. Do graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural chemistry in 1965 …He moved to the United States in 1969 and earned two master’s degrees in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Chicago in 1972, a doctorate in biochemistry from Ohio State University in 1974, and a master’s in business administration from Northeastern University in 1993.

He began research on fats at Applied Science Laboratory in State College, Pa., before moving to Winchester in 1980 to continue his research, some of which led to the discovery of new prescription drugs, at the Dupont subsidiary NEN Life Sciences in Boston.

Charles Edward Stearns, a former Tufts University dean and renowned geologist, died of natural causes June 27 at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90…Born in Billerica, Dr. Stearns graduated from Howe High School in 1935. He went to Tufts University to focus on music, but switched his major to geology after studying rocks and land masses near Cochiti Lake in New Mexico. Dr. Stearns completed his bachelor’s degree in 1939. He continued his geological studies at the California Institute of Technology and then at Harvard, where he received a master’s degree in 1942 while serving as an instructor in the department of geology at Tufts.

After serving as a lieutenant in the US Navy in Honolulu from 1942 to 1945, Dr. Stearns returned to Tufts as an assistant professor of geology. At the same time, he completed his doctoral work at Harvard in 1951.His dissertation on the Rio Grande Depression is now considered a landmark study by geologists worldwide.