Dr. Ronald Kendall
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) Florence, South Carolina |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of South Carolina |
| Occupation | Environmental toxicologist |
Dr. Ronald James Kendall is an American environmental toxicologist. He is currently Head of the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory and Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University. He is the founding director and director emeritus of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) as well as founding chair and chair emeritus of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
Early life and education
Kendall was born in 1952 in Florence, South Carolina. He graduated from McClenaghan High School in Florence in 1970 and went on to the University of South Carolina, majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry. He had a great deal of interest in environmental science, but the field of environmental toxicology had not yet been founded. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1974 then pursuing his master’s at Clemson University. Although focusing on wildlife biology, his emphasis was on toxicology, which formed the foundation of his future interest in wildlife and environmental toxicology. He graduated from Clemson University in 1976, proceeding on to his Ph.D. program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. There, he focused on fisheries and wildlife sciences, but still with an emphasis on his graduate work in toxicology still formulating the foundation for his future work in wildlife toxicology with pioneering academic and research efforts in that field. Kendall received a United States Environmental Protection Agency Traineeship in toxicology and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for further advancement of his career in
toxicology in the summer of 1980. Kendall later received the Gerald H. Cross Environmental Leadership Award for his distinguished contributions as a graduate of Virginia Tech, but in the area of wildlife and environmental toxicology. Kendall was awarded a National Wildlife Federation Environmental Conservation Fellowship during his tenure as a doctoral student at Virginia Tech.[1]
Dr. Ronald James Kendall is an American environmental toxicologist who is Head of the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory and Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University.
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