Julie Haynes Lutz (1944[1]–2022[2]) was an astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars.
[3] Lutz was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science Education and director of the astronomy program at Washington State University.
She earned her doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,[4] where she also met and married fellow astronomy graduate student Thomas E.
At Washington State, she chaired the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics from 1992 to 1996, and was active in improving primary and secondary school science education.
[4] In 2004 the United Negro College Fund gave Lutz and her husband, astronomer George Wallerstein, their President's Award for their long-term and substantial fund-raising activities for the organization.