"When Randy Schekman attended UCLA in the late 1960s, getting a good college education was unimaginably cheap. Student fees were just a few hundred dollars; room and board was a few hundred more. "I could work a summer job and pay myself for the whole school year," says Schekman, now a cell biologist at the University of California-Berkeley.
On Monday, Schekman was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his pioneering research on how cells transport proteins to other cells—a process fundamental to cellular communication.
Schekman's college experience at UCLA, from which he graduated with a degree in molecular sciences in 1971, shifted him from wanting to pursue a career as a medical doctor to a fascination with scientific research. It was pivotal to his success—in science, the ultimate success. That's why it's so striking to hear Schekman say that as a Nobelist, he now wants to use his newfound influence to stand up for publicly funded higher education, which he considers to be "really in peril all over the country."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/inquiring-minds-randy-schekman-college
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