Dr. W. Larry Kenney is the Marie Underhill Noll Chair in Human Performance and Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kenney received the Honor Award from both the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Physiological Society for his research contributions and has published multiple editions of two books, 300 journal articles and dozens of book chapters on the topics 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 research was continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health from 1986 through 2015, one of the longest-running R01 grants, and he continues to be funded by that organization. He has mentored 40 MS or 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 9th edition; it has now been translated into 14 languages. He served as President of the American College of Sports Medicine from 2003-04 and is also a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (APS). He is the former chair of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute and serves on many scientific advisory panels, including Nike’s Science Advisory Board.