Professional Goals

Short-term Goals

• To pass my written and oral preliminary exams fall of 2016
• To successfully defend my dissertation spring of 2017
• To graduate from Virginia Tech with a Doctor of Philosophy in horticulture spring of 2017

Long-term Goals

• To become a tenure-track professor in horticulture at a college or university with an emphasis on teaching
• To develop a research program geared toward improving nutrient management in containerized nursery-crop production
• To educate nursery-crop growers on the importance of nutrient management so they may feel compelled to reduce their environmental footprint