Donald Kennedy

Donald Kennedy
President of Stanford University
Term	August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992
Predecessor	Richard W. Lyman
Successor	Gerhard Casper
Born	August 18, 1931 (1931-08-18) (age 80) New York City, New York
Alma mater	Harvard University

Donald Kennedy (born August 18, 1931)^[1] is an American scientist, public administrator and academic.

Donald Kennedy was born in New York and educated at Harvard University (A.B.; Ph.D., Biology, 1956).^[2][3] He has spent most of his professional career at Stanford University, which he joined as a faculty member in 1960 and where he was chair of the Department of Biology from 1964–1972, then director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977.^[2][3] Kennedy is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution, and is on the board of directors of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

For 26 months he served as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration during the Carter Administration. Having been appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph Califano, in April 1977, in the next two-plus years Kennedy and the FDA dealt with issues such as the fallout from the attempt to ban saccharin and worked on provisions of the proposed Drug Regulation Reform Act of 1978.^[3]

After stepping down from the FDA in June 1979, Kennedy returned to Stanford where he served as vice president for academic affairs and then provost.^[3] In 1980 he became president of Stanford University and served in that position until 1992.^[2] Amid a financial scandal broken by the San Jose Mercury News, he resigned in 1992.^[4]From 2000 until 2008, he was editor-in-chief of Science,^[2] the prestigious weekly published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (replaced by Bruce Alberts).

According to his Stanford biography, Kennedy's present research interests relate to "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."^[2]

In 2010 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Kennedy chronology". news.stanford.edu. July 29, 1991. http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/910729Arc1239.html. Retrieved September 10, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "FSI Stanford Media Guide--Donald Kennedy, PhD". http://fsi.stanford.edu/mediaguide/donaldkennedy/. Retrieved 2010-01-28. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "Donald Kennedy, Ph.D.". U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CommissionersPage/PastCommissioners/ucm113407.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-28. 
4. ^ Merl, Jean (July 30, 1991). "Stanford President, Beset by Controversies, Will Quit : Education: Donald Kennedy to step down next year. Research scandal, harassment charge plagued university.". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-30/news/mn-131_1_donald-kennedy. Retrieved September 10, 2011. 
5. ^ "Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011 [last update]. http://wonderfest.org/sagan-prize/sagan-prize-recipients/. Retrieved September 10, 2011. 

Academic offices
Preceded by Gerald J. Lieberman	Provost of Stanford University 1979-1980	Succeeded by Albert M. Hastorf
Preceded by Richard W. Lyman	President of Stanford University 1980–1992	Succeeded by Gerhard Casper

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Name	Kennedy, Donald
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Date of birth	August 18, 1931
Place of birth	New York City, New York
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