Kendall
W. Corbin, Ph.D. received his B.A. degree in 1961 from
Carleton College, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University in 1965.
From
1965 to the fall of 1970 he was a Research Associate and Lecturer
in Biology at Yale University. Thereafter, until 2004 he was a
professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities where he lectured on the topics of ecology,
biology, population genetics, and human evolution. During those
years he also carried out extensive field and laboratory research
in North and South America that dealt with avian and invertebrate
population genetics. He is now a Professor Emeritus of the
University
of Minnesota.
In addition, during 2012 and 2013 he was a Community Faculty
Member at Metropolitan State
University,
Twin Cities,
Minnesota
where
he continued
to teach biology.
During
his career, Dr. Corbin had the privilege of teaching over
11,000 students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels,
and over a dozen graduate students obtained their own advanced
degrees under his direction. At different times he was the
Director of the Graduate Program in Ecology, and the Graduate
Program in Conservation Biology. For two years he was the
interim Director of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural
History.
These
days he devotes much of his time to writing and to the conservation
of habitats
of endangered species. In
all of these activities he is blessed to be encouraged and
supported by his wife, Susanne G. Corbin. |
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