Kendall C Swanson is a Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at North Dakota State University. From North Dakota State University, he earned a BS (1994) and MS (1996). He completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Kentucky in 2000 and was a Research Associate at the USDA Meat Animal Research Center from 2001 to 2003. He has been awarded the American Feed Industry Association Award in Nutrition Research in 2019. He has published 143 papers with 2094 citations and an h-index of 26 (Scopus, 24 October 2023). His research topics mainly include beef cattle production, feedlot nutrition, cow/calf nutrition, ruminant nutritional physiology, energy and protein metabolism, and pancreatic function developmental programming.