Peter McKenney
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
I'm originally from a small town in the Utica area in Upstate New York. I earned a BS in Molecular Biology from SUNY Fredonia and went to Binghamton for 1 unhappy semester as a transfer student in 1996. I was a small town kid and Bing was just too big for me at the time. It was also my first real exposure to people from New York City, and they all talked way too fast. Neither of my parents went to college after high school. My father was an enlisted man in the US Navy and my mother was a social worker for New York State. My mother eventually did earn a Bachelors degree in her late 40s. I was always told I should go to college, but not much beyond that. I didn't really learn how the system works until I stumbled into a job as a lab technician at Harvard Medical School a couple of years after I graduated. Twenty five years later I'm happy to be back at Binghamton and after spending 15 years in New York City myself as a Ph.D. student and a postdoc, I can keep up with the fast talkers this time.
Contact Info: mckenney@binghamton.edu