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