William E. Bennett is a senior scholar with the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.
In recent years, he has served on boards and committees of university and academic associations, journals and the National Institutes of Health.
Bennett received his bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1950, and M.S.
He was awarded a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship to work with noted Professor Zanvil A. Cohn and Nobel Prize winner Fritz Lipmann, at the Rockefeller University.
Bennet holds two honorary doctorates and one from his alma mater, Lincoln University (2010).