The reorganization of biology at the University of California, Berkeley
By: interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Koshland, Daniel.; Park, Roderic B.; Taylor, Louise, 1938-; Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Biology; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Integrative Biology.; Biology -- Study and teaching -- California -- Berkeley.; Animal rights activists -- California -- Berkeley.
Description: 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.