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2007 Kerr Lectures:
Donald Kennedy

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Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a CESP senior fellow by courtesy. His present research program entails 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.

Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. From 1980 to 1992 he served as President of Stanford University. He was Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1977-79. Previously at Stanford, he was as director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1964-1972.

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law. Kennedy received AB and PhD degrees in biology from Harvard University.

Lecture 1

Science and the University:  An Evolutionary Tale,
Part 1:  The Endless Frontier
October 31, 3 pm, UC Berkeley Art Museum
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Lecture 2

Science and the University:  An Evolutionary Tale,
Part 2:  Bayh-Dole and Enclosing the Frontier
November 7, 4 pm, Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
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Lecture 3

Science and the University:  An Evolutionary Tale,
Part 3:  Science, Security, and Control
November 28, UC Irvine
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