Mentoring is a key tool for academic success! Students will meet with Dr. Liebowitz during their first semester to explore their interests, and during that conversation, we’ll match you with a Faculty Mentor with similar interests. If your spark takes a new turn during your journey, we can chat about finding you a new match!:
You’ll meet your faculty mentors at least once a semester for advice and guidance on:
Associate Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: Restoration and Plant Ecology
Lecturer
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: landscape management, public horticulture, professional development, plant propagation, practical work experience, capstone
Lecturer
Department: Entomology and Nematology
Topics: biosecurity, integrated pest management and genomics
Associate Professor
Department: Agronomy
Topics: world food crops breeding, plant breeding & molecular genetics
Assistant Professor
Department: Plant Pathology / IRREC
Topic: plant pathology, pathogen effector biology, pathogen evolution, plant-microbe interactions, pathogen-assisted breeding
Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture / GCREC
Topics: breeding, genetics, genomics, genome editing, biotechnology, ornamental plants, emerging crops
Professor & Associate Chair
Topics: grassland, ecosystem services, livestock, crop-livestock systems
Assistant Professor
Department: Agronomy
Topics: plant ecophysiology, plant mortality, climate change impacts, plant vascular systems, plant water use
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture / MREC
Topics: plant breeding, molecular biology, genome editing, stress tolerance, ornamentals and vegetables
Assistant Professor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: Plant secondary metabolism and hormones, Metabolic engineering and Plant genetic modification using CRISPR
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: arboriculture, tree risk assessment, trees and hurricanes, trees and climate change, urban forestry
Assistant Professor
Department: Agronomy Department & Center for Stress Resilient Agriculture
Topics: agroecology, organic agriculture, international agriculture development
Associate Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: turfgrass, landscape, general plant science, soils
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: Postharvest Genomics, Potato Tuber Dormancy, Stress Biology, Meristem Development
Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Department: Agronomy Department
Topics: weed science and crop production
Assistant Professor
Department: Agronomy
Topics: agronomic row crop fertility and production, extension
Professor and Associate Center Director for FLREC
Department: Environmental Horticulture / FLREC
Topics: plant nutrition, organic chemistry, alternative growing substrates and water conservation, greenhouse production, ornamental plants
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: Plant biochemistry and biotechnology, Gene-editing and Biochemistry – Medicinal plants
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: plant physiology, berry crops, graduate school
Research Assistant Scientist
Department: Horticultural Sciences / CREC
Topics: molecular biology and biotechnology techniques for improving and developing disease resistance for commercially important crops, greenhouse and field evaluations, citrus and macadamia nut propagation and improvement
Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: horticultural sciences, genetics, plant breeding and genomics, environmental physiology
Assistant Professor
Department: Plant Pathology
Topics: teaching & science communication, industry experience, new disease research
Professor and Associate Chair
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: quality and technology of fresh fruits and vegetables
Professor
Department: Plant Pathology
Topics: Fungal Evolution, Ecology and Systematics; special interests in ectomycorrhizal fungi, truffles, zygomycetes
Associate Professor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: state extension specialist organic/sustainable specialty crops; cover crop management, conservation tillage, organic farming systems
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
Department: Agronomy
Topics: forage management, grazing, diffusion and implementation of technology
Professor and Interim Chair
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: Ornamental Micropropagation and Cryopreservation
Associate Professor
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: plant synthetic biology, cell wall polysaccharides
Associate Professor
Department: Agronomy
Topics: plant genetics and genomics, Molecular biology (gene cloning and genome editing), Symbiosis, Crop disease resistance
Professor Emeritus
Department: Environmental Horticulture
Topics: Landscapes and Nursery Production
Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
Department: Horticultural Sciences
Topics: organic and sustainable vegetable cropping systems, vegetable grafting, protected culture, organic nutrient management, soil health, and produce quality as affected by production systems and cultural practices
