UC Berkeley In Brief
September 16 academic symposium and memorial service will celebrate the life of Daniel Koshland, Jr.
 Daniel Koshland, pictured in 1991 when he was named Cal Alumnus of the Year. (Robert Holmgren photo) |
BERKELEY – UC Berkeley will celebrate the life of Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. at a campuswide memorial to be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, September 16 in Zellerbach Hall. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m.
Prior to the memorial service, an academic symposium, "Induced Fit: The Science and Wit of Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.," will be held from 12 to 3 p.m. in Stanley Hall. The list of symposium speakers has been published below.
Those planning to attend the symposium and service are asked to register online.
Koshland, a long time professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley and a resident of Lafayette, California, died on July 23. A former editor of the journal Science and a tireless booster of the biological sciences at the University of California, Koshland was 87. A NewsCenter story documenting the breadth of his life is online.
Donations in Koshland's memory can be made to the Marian Koshland Science Museum, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20001, or to the UC Berkeley Foundation to support bioscience and energy teaching and research. Write to the UC Berkeley Foundation, Attention: Vice Chancellor-University Relations, 2080 Addison Street, #4200, Berkeley, CA 94720-4200.
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