Donald Kennedy was an American scientist, public administrator, and academic.
17 Facts About Donald Kennedy
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Donald Kennedy served as Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, President of Stanford University, and Editor-in-Chief of Science.
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Donald Kennedy was born on August 18,1931 in New York City, the son of Barbara Bean and William Dorsey Kennedy.
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From 1956 to 1960, Kennedy taught biology at Syracuse University, receiving tenure by 1960.
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Donald Kennedy's research included the patterns of neural action in crayfish, demonstrating some of the connection principles among nerve cells that impose the sequences underlying a behavioral event.
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Donald Kennedy showed that some single neurons, which he termed "command" neurons, could produce a complex, fixed-action pattern of locomotory behavior.
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Donald Kennedy was one of the founding faculty in the Program in Human Biology, Kennedy served ten years on the board of directors of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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In 1990 Donald Kennedy hosted Mikhail Gorbachev on an international visit to Stanford.
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Donald Kennedy led Stanford to divest all investments in South Africa during apartheid after student protests, and changed the "Western Culture" credit requirements to "Cultures, Ideas, and Values" in an attempt to encompass non-Western cultures.
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Donald Kennedy resigned in 1992 following congressional hearings over whether the university improperly billed the government for research expense as part of the Stanford Indirect Costs Controversy, which included billing for widening his bed and for the purchase of antiques for his home.
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Donald Kennedy remained at Stanford after resigning from the presidency.
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In 1997 Donald Kennedy published the book Academic Duty, which advocated for university professors to pay more attention to the teaching part of their duties, and to make an effort to connect their research with the wider public.
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Donald Kennedy was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the American Philosophical Society, and the California Academy of Sciences.
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Donald Kennedy was president emeritus of Stanford University, Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, and emeritus and senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies by courtesy.
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Donald Kennedy had two children from his first marriage and two stepchildren with Hamill.
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Donald Kennedy had a stroke in 2015 and in 2018 moved to Gordon Manor, a residential care home in Redwood City, California.
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Donald Kennedy died there from COVID-19 on April 21,2020, at age 88, during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.