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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
[edit]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.