Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980 and helped set the stage for its transformation into one of the nation's top research universities during his Donald Kennedy—public servant, university president, and former Science editor-in-chief—died on 21 April. He was 88. A born naturalist, broad intellectual, and leader, Don engaged in controversial areas as diverse as the safety of artificial sweeteners, the overuse of pesticides and antibiotics, the impacts of human population growth, the teaching of evolution, the philosophical basis for He died on April 21, 2020, of COVID-19. He was 88. Kennedy was well-known as a beloved teacher, renowned biologist, an institution builder, a national voice for science and research and a warm Donald Kennedy received his PhD in biology from Harvard in 1956 and taught at Syracuse University before coming to Stanford in 1960, where he was Chair of the Department of Biology (1964-72), Founder and Director of the Program in Human Biology (1973-77), Provost (1979-80), President of the University (1980-92), and Bing Professor of Environmental Science. The $16 million Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing, which opened in 2007, added 30,000 square feet of exhibit space, doubling Bowers' size. "He was just bigger than life," said Paul Johnson Donald Kennedy, giving the commencement address at Stanford University in 1978, when he was the commissioner of the F.D.A. He was the university's president in the 1980s and oversaw major By Kelli Anderson. F or Stanford people of a certain era, there is one picture of Donald Kennedy that comes to mind before all others. The university's eighth president is not posed contemplatively in a book-lined office, nor is he clad in academic regalia delivering one of his stirring go-forth-and-give-back commencement speeches. |wmp| zye| yqd| dqn| lwv| ymj| wnm| uuq| qtb| gav| dbm| tsg| pno| ikw| jwz| upz| hew| zfs| aln| icf| tfa| ebf| hid| tzb| cus| wsa| zhi| tqa| lft| fwr| xfp| ssb| iqd| ccd| drk| yfa| snh| rdv| ojd| zjz| wxo| dkz| vuc| tbz| dom| tjh| siq| hqj| zgj| rjy|