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The reorganization of biology at the University of California, Berkeley : oral history transcript / 2003.
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Title:

The reorganization of biology at the University of California, Berkeley : oral history transcript / 2003

Creator/Contributor:

Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Koshland, Daniel, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Park, Roderic B., interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Louise, 1938-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Interviews with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Roderic B. Park and Louise Taylor on the process of reorganizing UC Berkeley's Dept. of Biology and other science departments into the Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Dept. of Integrative Biology in the 1980s and 1990s. Narrators discuss the difficult process of abolishing and reforming long standing departments as well as opposition from animal rights activists and campaigning in Sacramento for building funds.

Date:

2003 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Biology -- Study and teaching -- California -- Berkeley
Animal rights activists -- California -- Berkeley
Biologie -- Étude et enseignement -- Californie -- Berkeley
Défenseurs des droits des animaux -- Californie -- Berkeley
Biology -- Study and teaching
Animal rights activists
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Biology.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Integrative Biology.

Note:

interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3658 C:1-6.
Also available online.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volumes (ii, 128 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
6 audiocassettes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Reorganization of biology at the University of California, Berkeley : oral history transcript 2003 : (OCoLC)1085936385