Background
He was born in China to Russian émigré parents, and moved to the United States as a young child with his parents, who settled in San Francisco. Slobodchikoff’s early love of biology was fostered by his membership in his teenage years in the Student Section of the California Academy of Sciences, where he went on numerous field trips to different habitats in California. He received an A. A. degree from City College of San Francisco in 1964, and a B. S. in 1966 and Ph. D. degree in 1971 both from the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph. D., Slobodchikoff joined the biology faculty of Northern Arizona University, where he remains today as a tenured professor. He also was a Fulbright Fellow and a Visiting Professor at Kenyatta University in Kenya in 1983.
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