2025: W. Larry Kenney, PhD, FACSM, FAPS

Dr. Larry Kenney is the Marie Underhill Noll chair in human performance and professor of physiology and kinesiology at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kenney was awarded the prestigious Faculty Scholar Medal by Penn State for his research contributions and has published multiple editions of 2 books, ~300 journal articles and dozens of book chapters on the topic of human responses to exercise, heat and cold stress and dehydration, as well as the biophysics of heat exchange between humans and the environment. His publications have been cited 30,000 times. His research was continuously funded by NIH from 1986 through 2015, one of the longest-running R01 grants, and he continues to be funded by NIH. He has mentored 38 MS and PhD students throughout his career along with eight postdoctoral fellows and numerous undergraduate scholars.

Dr. Kenney is the primary author of Physiology of Sport and Exercise, a best-selling textbook in exercise physiology now in its 9^th edition; it has been translated into 14 languages. He served as President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) from 2003-04. He is also a fellow of the American Physiological Society (APS) and presented with the Adolph Distinguished Lectureship Award by APS in 2017. He is one of only 10 scientists who have been the recipient of Honor Awards from both ACSM and APS. He was the former chair of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute and serves on many scientific advisory panels including Nike’s Science Advisory Board.