Seminar Schedule, Spring 2008
From WolfWikis
HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE SEMINARS SPRING SEMESTER, 2008 Mondays, 3:00 pm, 159 Kilgore Hall
January 7 Brandon King, NC State Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics & Extension Forestry, "Tree Preservation"
January 14 FACULTY MEETING
January 21 HOLIDAY – Marin Luther King Day
January 28 Rich Felder - Actively Involve Students in Learning, Even with 200 in the Class
February 4 John Dole, "The State of the Dole Floriculture Project
February 11 FACULTY MEETING
February 18 Gabriele Gusmini, Syngenta/Rogers NK, “From Graduate Research to Private Breeding: Easy and Difficult Aspects of a Professional Transition” (joint seminar with Horticultural Science)
February 25 Brian Spears, "New Pest Advisory Group (NPAG)"
March 3 Mary Peet: ASHS
March 10 FACULTY MEETING
March 17 Bill Herrera Beardall, Director Facilities Operations, Grounds Management, Fleet Services, and Waste Reduction and Recycling, NC State: "The Revitalization of the NC State Campus"
March 24 Lauri Lawson, Niche Gardens and Chris Moorman, Extension Wildlife Specalist, Forestry, NCSU; "Landscaping with NC Natives"
March 31 Joe-Ann McCoy, NC Arboretum, Development of a Medicinal Plant Germplasm Facility at the NC Arboretum in Asheville, NC
April 7 Bert Abbott, Clemson University: "Peach genetic and genomic mapping"
April 14 FACULTY MEETING
April 21 Deyu Xie: "Flavonoids: Beauty, Nutrition and Health".
April 28 Barclay Poling: Strawberry production in NC