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Evelyn M. Witkin

Citizenship Citizen of the United States
Family Status Married in 1943 to Herman A. Witkin (d.1979);
two children: Joseph, b. 1949; Andrew, b.1952

Education

1937-1941 Washington Square College, New York
University, New York, NY;
A.B. (magna cum laude), 1941
Major: Biology Minors: Chemistry, French

1941-1947 Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A., 1943, in Zoology (Genetics)
Ph.D. 1947, in Zoology (Genetics)

Positions Held

1971-present Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Barbara McClintock Professor Emerita (1991-present)
Barbara McClintock Professor of Genetics

Waksman Institute (1983-1991)
Douglass College
Department of Biological Sciences (1979-1982)
Professor of Biological Sciences,
Douglass College
Department of Biological Sciences (1971-1978)

1955-1971 State University of New York, Brooklyn, New York
Downstate Medical Center, Department of Medicine
Professor (1969-1971)
Associate Professor (1957-1969)
Assistant Professor (1955-1957)

1945-1955 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Genetics,
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Staff Member (1949-1955),

Postdoctoral Fellow (1947-1949),

Research Assistant (1945-1947).

1944-1945 Columbia University, New York, Department of Zoology
University Fellow and Assistant in Genetics

Honors

1956 Carnegie Institution of Washington Fellowship

1960 Selman A. Waksman Award, Theobald Smith Society

1975 Rutgers University Research Council Fellowship

1977 Election to National Academy of Sciences

Prix Charles Leopold Mayer, Academie des Sciences de l’Institut de France

1978 Election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

D.Sc. Honoris Causa from New York Medical College

1979 Lindback Award for Outstanding Research, Rutgers University

1980 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer, 1980-81

Election to Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1982 American Women of Science Award for Outstanding Research

1983 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley

New Jersey Women of Achievement Award

1986 “Citation Classic” status conferred upon 1976 review article
(Witkin, E.M., Bacteriol. Rev.40:869-907.)

1989 Miller Visiting Professorship, University of California at Berkeley

1990 Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Award

1992 Election to Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

1995 D. Sc. Honoris Causa from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

1995-2005 Member Advisory Board, Department of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University

2000 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, The American Genetics Society

2003 The 2002 National Medal of Science

2004 Distinguished Research Award, NJ Association for Biomedical Research

2006 D. Sc. Honoris Causa from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Editorship

1950-1965 Editor-in-Chief, Microbial Genetics Bulletin
1964-1977 Member, Editorial Board, Mutation Research
1968-1977 Member, Editorial Board, Molecular & General Genetics

Research Support

Principal Investigator of research grants from National Science

Foundation (1955-57) and from National Institutes of Health (1956-1989),
total awarded (direct costs) over $3,000,000.)