The HistoryMakers video oral history with Kenneth Olden.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 28 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2013.123 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Olden, Kenneth interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Kenneth Olden |
| Portion of title | Kenneth Olden |
| Abstract | Cell biologist and academic administrator Kenneth Olden was born on July 22, 1938 in Newport, Tennessee. After graduating from Knoxville College in 1960 with his B.S. degree in biology, Olden enrolled at the University of Michigan and graduated from there in 1964 with his M.S. degree in genetics. He earned his Ph.D. degree in cell biology and biochemistry from Temple University in 1978. In 1977, he became the first African American to be awarded tenure and promoted to independent investigator at the National Institutes of Health. In 1991, Olden became the first African American appointed as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. In 2008, he became the founding dean of the School of Public Health at City University of New York. Olden was a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Arlington, Virginia 2013 May 21. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2013.123 HistoryMakers |