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Del Shankel
Chancellor of the University of Kansas (interim)
In office
1994
Preceded byGene Budig
Succeeded byRobert Hemenway
Personal details
Born (1927-08-04) August 4, 1927 (age 97)
Plainview, Nebraska, U.S.
Alma materWalla Walla College
University of Texas

Delbert Merrill Shankel (born August 4, 1927) is an American microbiologist and academic adminsitrator. He served as the interim chancellor of the University of Kansas in 1994. Shankel, a microbiologist, was educated at Walla Walla College and University of Texas (PhD in Bacteriology and Biochemistry, 1959). He started teaching at the University of Kansas' Department of Microbiology in 1959. He retired in 1996 and was named professor and chancellor emeritus[1]

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