Campuses:
Wednesday seminars are held every Wednesday in Alderman Hall Room 310 from 3:30 - 4:30 PM during the fall and spring semesters. They are free and open to all students interested in learning more about a variety of topics in horticulture. Watch this page for an updated list of upcoming seminars.
Also check out upcoming Monday seminars (.pdf) hosted by Applied Plant Sciences, a graduate program administered jointly by the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and the Department of Horticultural Science. Several seminars feature faculty and students from our department.
| January 23 |
Neil Anderson, Associate Professor | Our 100 Years of Seminars (Jan. 13, 1913-2013): Honoring the Centennial and the Early Years |
| January 30 | Sangkyu Park, Visiting Professor (Hegeman Lab) | "Ecological plant metabolomics on Myriophyllum spicatum, Salix polaris, and Rhus chinensis" |
| February 6 |
Susan Galatowitsch, Professor & Department Head of Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology | A look 'under the hood' at a fully online class |
| February 13 |
Mary Meyer, Professor | The Ten Plants that Changed Minnesota |
| February 20 |
Emily Tepe (Scientist), Neil Anderson (Associate Professor), and Emily Hoover (Professor & Department Head) | Taste the Difference! Evaluating Jams from the University of Minnesota Prunus Collection |
| February 27 |
Chad Giblin, Scientist | Think Tough, Think Elm: Selecting and Forming Urban Forest Infrastructure |
| March 6 |
Tim Kenny, Director of Education at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | The Arboretum's Urban Gardening Program |
| March 13 |
He Miao, Visiting Professor (Anderson Lab) | Breeding Fragrant Chrysanthemums |
| March 20 |
No Seminar | SPRING BREAK. |
| March 27 |
Jodie Holt, UC Riverside (plant physiology consultant for the movie Avatar) | KERMIT OLSON LECTURE: What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Our Planet Note: This seminar will be held in 110 Green Hall |
| April 3 |
Julie Weisenhorn, Assistant Extension Professor | The Master Gardener Program - Past, Present, and Future! |
| April 10 |
Ed Schneider, Professor & Director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | The Next Master Plan for the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum |
| April 17 |
Jean Larson, Manager, Nature Based Therapy, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | Nature-Based Therapeutics |
| April 24 |
No Seminar | (Note: Attend the April 26 Special Anniversary Event in lieu of seminar!) |
| April 26 |
SPECIAL ANNIVERSARIES EVENT, HELD AT THE MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM (ALL DAY) | Centennial of the Seminar Series (110 Years) / Quasiquicentennial of the Department (125 years) CELEBRATION EVENT |
| May 1 | Andrszej Noyszewski, Scientist (Smith Lab) | Accelerated Mitochondrial Genome Evolution of a Triticum Alloplasmic Line |
