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Kevin Padian

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Padian received a bachelor's degree in Natural Science and a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from Colgate University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University, where he focused on the evolution of flight in pterosaurs. He subsequently became interested in paleobiology, especially using paleohistology. He developed this research program in collaboration with Armand de Ricqlès and Jack Horner. In addition to his work at Berkeley, Padian taught science in high school and was principal author of the California Science Framework K–12. In 2003, he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.

He has cowritten several papers with John R. Horner and Armand de Ricqlès based on histological analysis of fossil bones from the UCMP as well as the Museum of the Rockies.

Padian has authored over 100 scientific articles.

In 2007, Padian was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He supervised several doctoral students who developed distinguished careers of their own, including Jacques Gauthier.

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