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The following faculty spent a
portion of their time working for the ornamental program:
- Dr.
David D. Alverson, Professor, Department
of Entomology. Responsibilities: 80% Teaching, 20% Research.
Expertise in insect pest management, applied entomology.
- Dr.
William Vance Baird, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture. Responsibilities:
20% Teaching, 80% Research. Expertise in plant molecular biology and genetics.
- Dr.
David L. Barkley, Professor and Economic Development Specialist. Department
of Agriculture and Applied Economics. Responsibilities: 10% Teaching,
45% Research, and 45% Extension. Expertise in regional economics, economic
growth and development, nonmetropolitan economic development policy, and economic
impact analysis.
- Dr.
James H. Blake, Extension Associate/Assistant Professor, Department
of Plant Pathology & Physiology, and Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Responsibilities: 75% Extension and 25% Teaching. Expertise in
plant disease diagnosis and diseases of ornamental plants and turfgrasses.
Director of the Clemson University Plant
Problem Clinic and the Clemson University Nematode Assay Laboratory.
- Dr.
Judith C. Caldwell, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture.
Responsibilties: 60% Teaching, 40% Research. Expertise
in landscape horticulture, tree management, and economic impact of landscapes.
- Dr.
N. Dwight Camper, Professor, Department
of Plant Pathology and Physiology. Responsibilities: 50%
Research, 50% Teaching. Expertise in plant physiology, herbicide metabolism,
detection, and movement in nurseries.
- Dr.
Joseph D. Culin, Professor, Department
of Entomology. Responsibilities: 50% Teaching, 50% Research.
Expertise in entomology and insects affecting ornamental plants.
- Dr.
Jimmy K. Golden, Associate Professor, Plant Pathology and Physiology, Pee
Dee Reseach and Education Center, Florence, SC. Responsibilities:
20% Extension, 80% Research. Expertise in diseases of turgrasses emphasizing
integrated pest management of nematodes in maintained landscape turf.
- Dr.
Clyde S. Gorsuch, Professor, Department
of Entomology. Responsibilities: 85% Extension, 15% Research.
Expertise in insect pest management of turfgrass, ornamental crops, and fruit
crops.
- Prof.
Mary Haque, Professor, Department of Horticulture. Responsibilities:
100% Teaching. Expertise in landscape architecture, landscape appreciation,
and student project management.
- Dr.
Steven Jeffers, Assistant Professor, Department
of Plant Pathology and Physiology. Responsibilites: 40% Extension,
60% Research. Expertise in diseases of ornamental plants and crops.
- Dr.
Albert W. Johnson, Professor, Entomology, Pee
Dee Reseach and Education Center, Florence, SC. Responsibilities:
100% Research. Expertise in turf entomology, insecticide screening, timing,
application techniques, mole cricket biology and pest management.
- Dr.
Steve Klaine, Professor, Clemson
Institute of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology (CIWET). Responsibilities:
50% Teaching, 50% Research.
- Dr.
Samuel Bruce Martin, Jr., Associate Professor, Plant Pathology and Physiology,
Pee Dee Reseach
and Education Center, Florence, SC. Responsibilities: 30% Extension,
70% Research. Expertise in turfgrass pathology and nematology, ecology
and epidemiology of turf diseases caused by Rhizoctonia species, soilborne plant
pathogens.
- Dr.
Ansel E. Miller, Assistant Professor, Department
of Forest Resources. Responsibilites: 30% Teaching, 70% Research.
Expertise in forest tree physiology.
- Dr.
Timothy P. Spira, Associate Professor, Department
of Biological Sciences. Responsibilties: 50% Research, 50% Teaching.
Expertise in plant reproductive biology and ecology.
- Dr.
Nihal C. Rajapakse, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture. Reponsibilites:
100% Research. Expertise in postharvest physiology, modified atmosphere storage,
and photomorphogenesis.
- Dr.
James S. Rice, Professor, Department
of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences. Responsibilities: 25%
Teaching, 75% Research. Expertise in plant breeding and genetics, population
and quantitative genetics, genetics of tall fescue-endophyte association.
- Dr.
Melissa B. Riley, Assistant Professor, Department
of Plant Pathology and Physiology. Responsibilities: 85% Research,
15% Teaching. Expertise in instrumentation and laboratory analysis, especially
for detection and quantitation of herbicides and other agrichemicals.
- Dr.
Simon W. Scott, Professor, Department
of Plant Pathology and Physiology. Responsibilities: 80% Research,
20% Teaching. Expertise in virus diseases of horticultural crops.
- Dr.
Nancy H. Walker, Associate Professor, Department
of Crop amd Soil Environmental Sciences. Responsibilities: 90%
Teaching, 10% Research. Expertise in plant breeding and genetics, plant
tissue culture, in vitro growth of tall fescue endophyte, emphasis on genetics
of tall fescue-endophyte association.
- Dr.
Ted Whitwell, Professor, Department of Horticulture. Responsibilities:
63% Research, 37% Teaching. Expertise in weed science, herbicide movement in
nurseries, and nursery management.
The mission of Clemson University's Department of Horticulture
is to promote personal and professional growth through the
discovery, communication, and application of horticultural
experiences, knowledge, and scholarship. Our work fosters
environmental stewardship while improving economic wellbeing,
health, and quality of life for all.
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