Background
Sass, Ronald Lewis was born on May 26, 1932 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Son of Erwin Leese and Flora Alice (Puck) Sass.
biology and chemistry educator
Sass, Ronald Lewis was born on May 26, 1932 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Son of Erwin Leese and Flora Alice (Puck) Sass.
Bachelor, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1957.
Chemist United States Army, Rock Island (Illinois) Arsenal, 1951-1954. Assistant professor Rice University, Houston, 1958-1962, associate professor, 1962-1966, HC & Oklahoma Wiess professor, 1966—2005, HC & Oklahoma Wiess professor emeritus, since 2005, chairman biology, 1981-1987. Fellow Baker Institute Public Policy, since 2009.
Environmental consultant, since 2008. Co-director Rice Center for Education, Houston, since 1988. Chair Rice Earth Systems Institute, Houston, since 1990, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1995—2004.
Consultant Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, since 1990, College Board, New York City, 1988-1996.
Executive board member Galveston Bay Foundation, since 2010. Board member Nature Conservancy, since 2010. Member International Geospher-Biosphere Program (committee chair since 1990).
Married Joyce R. Moorhead, 1951 (divorced 1968). Children: Dennise, Andria. Married Margaret Lee Macy, April 4, 1969.
Children: Hartley, Dennis.