Donald Kennedy

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]

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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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