This collection comprises the personal and professional papers of entomologist and academic Howard A. Schneiderman. Materials detail Schneiderman's career at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and his work at Cornell and Case Western University. The collection also contains files documenting Schneiderman's research in insect pathology and his professional activities. Materials include correspondence, research files, published and unpublished writings, photographs, slides, and audio recordings.

Howard A. Schneiderman Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) had a distinguished career as an entomologist and academic in the field of insect pathology. He was born on February 9, 1927, in New York City. Schneiderman entered Swarthmore College in 1944, graduating with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1948. In 1952, he received his Ph.D. in Physiology from Harvard University where he was also a Teaching Fellow. He received his first professional appointment at Cornell University where he taught from 1953 until 1961. At Cornell, he taught zoology and continued his research on discontinuous respiration, which he discovered while at Harvard.

61.3 linear feet 63 boxes

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