Kenneth Clark Shaw 

Kenneth Clark Shaw, former Iowa State University (ISU) faculty member, died on July 7, 2023. He was born on September 18, 1932, to Julian and Mary (Nickel) in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

He earned a degree in biological sciences with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1954. He received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1964 from the University of Michigan after serving in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963. His assignment in the Army was research duty at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Md.

Shaw served in ISU’s Department of Zoology for decades where he was “committed to teaching, researching and publishing about his passions in the areas of zoology and entomology, including his specific interest in the behavior of crickets and katydids,” per Shaw's obituary in the Ames Tribune.