Rumbaugh, Duane, Dr., Comparative Psychologist
Biography
Duane Rumbaugh is an internationally renowned comparative psychologist whose studies of the nature of the learning and language processes of primates, in relation to their brain evolution and development, date back to 1958 when he conducted research with the great apes at the San Diego Zoo and with monkeys at San Diego State College. Rumbaugh received his master's degree from Kent State University in 1951 and his Ph.D. in general-experimental psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1955. He has had continuous grant support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development since 1971 to the present. Other agencies to support his research have been NSF and NASA.He served as chairman of the Psychology Department and as Regents' Professor of Psychology and Biology at Georgia State University from 1971 until his retirement in 2000. From 1969 to 1971 he served as Associate Director and Chief of Behavior at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center of Emory University.