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Donald Kennedy (August 18, 1931 – April 21, 2020) was an American scientist, public administrator, and academic. He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1977–1979), President of Stanford University (1980–1992), and Editor-in-Chief of Science (2000–2008).
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980 and helped set the stage for its transformation into one of the nation’s top research universities during his 12 years in office, died April 21, 2020, of COVID-19 at Gordon Manor, a residential care home in Redwood City where he resided for the past two years.
Apr 23, 2020 · The 8 years he served as editor-in-chief of Science was only the final chapter in a long and very distinguished career. He spent most of it at Stanford University, including 12 years as its president, interrupted by a 2-year stint as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under former President Jimmy Carter.
Apr 23, 2020 · Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who headed the Food and Drug Administration before becoming president of Stanford University, where he oversaw major expansions of its campus and curriculum and...
Jun 5, 2020 · Donald Kennedy—public servant, university president, and former Science editor-in-chief—died on 21 April. He was 88. A born naturalist, broad intellectual, and leader, Don engaged in controversial areas as diverse as the safety of artificial sweeteners, the overuse of pesticides and antibiotics, the impacts of human population growth, the ...
He died on April 21, 2020, of COVID-19. He was 88. Kennedy was well-known as a beloved teacher, renowned biologist, an institution builder, a national voice for science and research and a warm, energetic and good-humored leader, said President Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the memorial.
“He was kinetic—physically and conceptually,” recalls Pulitzer Prize–winning history professor emeritus David M. Kennedy, ’63, who took one of Kennedy’s biology classes as an undergrad in the early ’60s.
