Raynard S. Kington
Raynard S. Kington | |
|---|---|
| 13th President of Grinnell College | |
| Assumed office August 1, 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Russell K. Osgood |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Peter T. Daniolos[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, B.S., M.D University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., M.B.A. |
Raynard S. Kington is the president of Grinnell College. He was most recently deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, and officially became the 13th president of Grinnell College on August 1, 2010.[2] Kington entered a combined B.S./M.D. program at the University of Michigan at age 16, earning his bachelor's degree when he was 19 and the M.D. at 21. He earned an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in health policy and economics at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
He served as deputy director of the National Institutes of Health after his appointment by director Elias Zerhouni in 2003. He briefly served as acting director of NIH from October 2008 to August 2009, until the appointment of director Francis Collins.[3] He is renowned for being the first openly gay president of Grinnell College, as well as the first black president.[4]
Family
Kington, his husband, and two young sons moved with him to Grinnell, Iowa, during the summer of 2010.[1][5]
External links
Opinion/Editorials
- #MeToo is a wakeup call: We need to talk to youth about sexual health and ethics, Salon, February 17, 2018
- The Long Tail of Jim Crow, Salon, October 29, 2017
- Creative Ways to Help Students Recover from Failure, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 23, 2017
- A Scientist Speaks for the Arts and Humanities, Inside Higher Ed, March 20, 2017
- Immigrants' Success is Ultimately our Country’s Success, Des Moines Register, February 16, 2017
- College President: Schools Can't Be Blue Islands in Red States, The Washington Post, December 23, 2016
- I'm Gay and African American. As a Dad, I Still Have It Easier than Working Moms, Washington Post, November 3, 2016
- Creating a Community of Scholars and Change Agents for Higher Education, AGB Newsletter, September 30, 2016
- Obama's Imprint on Higher Ed: Responses: Invest in Evidence, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 2016
- Eliminating “have” and “have not” categories on the Iowa prairie and beyond, Hechinger Report, May 3, 2016
- Make Admissions at Elite Colleges ‘Access Aware’, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 24, 2014
- The Missing Factor, Inside Higher Ed, May 8, 2014
- A Cost-Control Lesson From an Unlikely Source, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2014
- Can You Apply 'Pay for Performance' to Higher Education?, Huffington Post, February 4, 2014
- Iowa View: A Family's Dream, A Nation's Dream, Des Moines Register, May 28, 2013
- On Being an "African American Scientist", Scientist, March 5, 2013
- Academic Redshirting—Give Them a Little More Time, Baltimore Sun, April 2, 2012
- Building a Better Physician—The Case for the New MCAT, New England Journal of Medicine, April 5, 2012
- Are Car Loans, College Loans So Different?, Washington Post, February 28, 2012
- Stop this terrible waste of scientific talent, New Scientist, August 24, 2011
- The Role of Liberal Arts Colleges in Advancing Positive Social Change, Huffington Post, March 23, 2011, updated May 25, 2011
References
- ^ a b c Grinnell College. (February 17, 2010). "Grinnell announces 13th President Raynard S. Kington, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health Deputy Director, to lead Grinnell".
- ^ Chronicle of Higher Education. Ticker. (February 17, 2010 1:21 PM ET) Grinnell College Chooses Top NIH Official as Its New President.
- ^ Kaiser, Jocelyn. (February 17, 2010). Science "NIH Deputy Director Kington Leaving for Grinnell"
- ^ Grinnell College. (February 19, 2010). [1].
- ^ Jaschik, Scott. (February 18, 2010). Inside Higher Ed "Bold Choices"