Donald Kennedy

Wednesday, October 1st
7:00 PM
Institute of Americas Hojel Auditorium

Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the Association for the Advancement of Science.  His present research program entails policy on such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land use-changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies.

Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present.  From 1980 to 1992 he served as president of Stanford University.  He was Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1977 - 1979.  Previously at Stanford, he was the director of the Program in Human Biology and chair of the Department of Biology.

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.  He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute.  

He is the author and co-author of many articles and books including: Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, Science 2005; The Ivory Bill Returns, Science, 2005; Math and Science Achievement, Science 2005; US Policy and the Global Environment; Valuing Nature; and In the Aftermath of the Tsunami: Implications of a Catastrophe.

He currently serves as director for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law.  Kennedy received his AP and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard University.