Dr. Kendall serves as the founding Director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Toxicology. Previously, he was the Director and Founder of The Institute of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology (TIWET) at Clemson University. He graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina and received his M.S.  from Clemson University and his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, under sponsorship of the National Wildlife Federation’s Environmental Conservation Fellowship. He received a United States Environmental Protection Agency post-doctoral traineeship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Kendall has served on many boards including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Panel, as Past-President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Board of Directors of the SETAC Foundation for Environmental Education, and the Endocrine Disrupters Screening and Testing Advisory Committee of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He has received numerous awards, addressed the United Nations Committee on Sustainable Development, has consulted with many foreign countries on environmental issues, and serves as an environmental advisor to the United States Justice Department in the Environmental Enforcement Section.  Dr. Kendall was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991.  He currently serves as Editor of the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. In addition, he has authored more than 200 refereed journal and technical articles and has published or edited manyl books. He has made more than 215 public and scientific presentations in the field of wildlife and environmental toxicology and has successfully won 138 research grants from federal, state and foreign governments, industries and foundations, which have represented more than $45 million with him as Principal Investigator. 

KENDALL, R.J., S.M. Presley, G.P. Austin, and P.N. Smith, editors. 2007. Advances in Biological and Chemical Terrorism Countermeasures. Taylor and Francis/CRC Press. (In press).

KENDALL, R.J. and P.N. Smith, editors.  2006.  Perchlorate Ecotoxicology. Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC) Press, 269pp.

Ramkumar, S., Love, A.H., Sata, U., Shastri, L., Smith, W.J., Keating, G.A., Hobbs, L., Cox, S.B., Lagna, W.M., KENDALL, R.J. 2007.  Next generation nonparticulate nonwoven wipe for chemical warfare agent decontamination. (Submitted).

Smith, E., Anderson, T., Crabtree, C., Carr, J., duPreez, L., Gentles, A., Giesy, J., Gross, T., Holden, L., KENDALL, R.J., Solomon, K., Van Der Kraak, G. 2007. Reproductive characteristics in American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) collected from agricultural and non-agricultural areas in southern Iowa.  Environmental Toxicology (Submitted).

Paden, Norka E., Gentles, Angella, Smith, Ernest, E., KENDALL, R.J. 2007. Comparative acute toxicity testing of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene and 2,4-dinitrotoluene in the adult bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana).  (Submitted).

du Preez, L.H., Kunene, N., Gideon, J.E., Carr, J.A., Giesy, J.P., Gross, T.S., KENDALL, R.J., Smith, E.E., Solomon, K.R., and Van der Kraak, G.J. 2007. Reproduction, larval growth,  and reproductive development in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis) exposed to atrazine.  Chemosphere (Submitted).

Abel, M.T.,  Presley, S.M., Rainwater, T.R., Austin, G.P., Cox, S.B., McDaniel, L.N., Marsland, E.J., Leftwich, B.D., Anderson, T.A., KENDALL, R.J., Cobb, G.P. 2007. Spatial and temporal evaluation of metal concentrations in soils and sediments from New Orleans, LA following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26 (10) 2108-2114.            .

Presley, S.M., KENDALL, R.J., Cobb, G.P. 2006 Toxic metal concentrations in schoolyard soils from New Orleans, LA before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Environmental Sciences and Toxicology (Submitted).

Brunjes, K.J., Severt, S.A., Liu, J., Pan, X., Brausch, J., Cox, S.A., Cobb, G.P., McMurry, S.T., KENDALL, R.J., Smith, P.N.  2007.  Effects of octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7- tetrazocine (HMX) exposure on reproduction and hatchling development in Northern bobwhite quail. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 70:982-687.

Cobb, G.P., Abel, M.T., Rainwater, T.R., Austin, G. P., Marlsand, E.J.,  Presley, S.M. 2006.  Metal distributions in New Orleans following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: a continuation study.  Environmental Science and Technology 40 (15) 4571-4577.

Park, J.W., Rinchard, J., Liu, F., Anderson, T.A., KENDALL, R.J., Theodorakis,C.W. 2006. The thyroid endocrine disruptor perchlorate affects reproduction, growth, and survival of mosquitofish.  2006.  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 63 (3) 343-352.

Zhang, B., KENDALL, R.J., and Anderson, T.A. 2006. Toxicity of the explosive metabolites hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitroso-1,3,5-triazine (TNX) and hexahydro-1-nitroso-3,5-dinitro-1,3,5-triazine (MNX) to the earthworm, Eisenia fetida. Chemosphere 64:86-95.

  Murphy, M.B., Hecker, M., Coady, K.K., Tompsett, A.R., Jones, P.D., Newsted, J.L., Wong, H.L., du Preez, L.H., Solomon, K.R., Carr, J.A., Smith, E.E., KENDALL, R.J., Van Der Kraak, G., Giesy, J.P. 2006. Sediment TCDD-EQS and erod and mrod activities in ranid frogs from agricultural and non-agricultural sites in Michigan (USA).  Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 51: 467-477.

Presley, S.M., Rainwater, T.R., Austin, G.P., Platt, S.G., Zak, J.C., Cobb, G. P., Marsland, E. J., Tian, K., Zhang, B., Anderson, T.A., Cox, S.B., Abel, M.T., Leftwich, B.D., Huddleston, J.R., Jeter, R.M., and KENDALL, R.J., 2006.   Assessment of pathogens and toxicants in New Orleans, LA following Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science and Technology  40:468-474.