Sigma Xi Lecture - What Constitutes "Sound" Science?

Fred Kirschenmann is director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, and a leader of the organic/sustainable agriculture movement. He has completed a five-year term on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Standards Board, and has chaired the administrative council for the USDA's North Central Region's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. He has been a member of the board of directors for the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture since 1994, and was president in 1997. He earned degrees from Yankton College in South Dakota, Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. He chaired the Department of Religion at Yankton College, and was Dean of the College at Curry College in Boston. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture