Harry Itagaki is a Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and the current chair of the Department of Biology. He joined the Kenyon faculty in 1990. Itagaki has broad interests in neurobiology, the biological bases of behavior, and in the physiology and anatomy underlying scaling of organisms He has received funding from the NSF, NIH and the USDA for his research.

Kenyon has awarded Itagaki the Trustees Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Robert J. Tomsich Science Award and the Faculty Distinguished Service Award.

Areas of Expertise

Sensory neurobiology, neuroethology, size and scaling in organisms

Education

1984 — Doctor of Philosophy from Duke University

1979 — Bachelor of Science from Yale University