Brohawn named Sloan Fellow

Assistant Professor Stephen Brohawn has been selected for a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given yearly to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States and Canada.

Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine

Jennifer Doudna, professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry, has won the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine, a prestigious international prize awarded in Israel for unique contributions to humanity.

Biochemist Howard Schachman, an advocate for research ethics, dies at 97

Howard K. Schachman, an influential biochemist who became a political and scientific activist, challenging not only California’s loyalty oath and its mandatory retirement rules but also the way fraud is dealt with in science, died Friday, Aug. 5, from complications of pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. A professor of the graduate school…