Howard K. Schachman is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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Schachman received a Ph.D. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1948. He has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley ever since. He signed but protested the loyalty oath

Loyalty oath

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 required by the Regents of the University of California

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 during McCarthyism

McCarthyism

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. In 1966, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 and in 1968 to the United States National Academy of Sciences

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Among many other honors, he received the AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award 2000.

The "Howard K. Schachman Public Service Award" of the ASBMB

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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 is named after him.

Each spring, he teaches the MCB 293C course on Ethical Conduct of Research required for NIH-funded students.

External links

• Home page at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...