 Tim Davis
Professor and Head, Department of Horticultural Sciences Department of Horticultural Sciences Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-2133 Phone: 979-845-5269 FAX: 979-845-0627 t-davis5@tamu.edu Research Emphasis: Ornamental Horticulture Ph.D. Horticulture/Plant Physiology, Oregon State University M.S. Horticulture/Plant Physiology, Oregon State University B.S. Horticulture, Brigham Young University Primary Academic Interests: Primary responsibility includes departmental administration and leadership. Research experience in the areas of biology related to propagation, adaptability, and utility of Texas landscape plants. Past projects include efforts to determine techniques for improving germination, emergence, and establishment of Texas bluebonnets; development of Big Bend bluebonnet into a cut flower crop; study of the physiology of adventitious root formation, organogenesis; plant stress tolerance, plant tissue culture, and plant growth regulation. Experience: Professor and Head, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2003 - present. Resident Director, Texas A&M Research and Extension Center, Dallas, 1996- 2005 Professor of Environmental Horticulture, 1995-2005, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Associate Professor of Ornamental Horticulture, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1989-1995 Associate Professor of Horticulture, Brigham Young University, 1987-1989 Assistant Professor of Horticulture, Brigham Young University, 1982-1987 Graduate Research Assistant, USDA Ornamental Plants Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon, 1978-1982. Honors and Awards: President, Plant Growth Regulator Society of America, 1996-1997. Secretary-Treasurer, American Society for Horticultural Science, Western Region, 1986-1989. President-elect, American Society for Horticultural Science, Western Region, 1989-1990. President, American Society for Horticultural Science, Western Region, 1990-1991. Associate Editor, HortScience, 1992. Associate Editor Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 1992-1995. Chairperson, Organizing Committee, First International Symposium on the Biology of Adventitious Root Formation, Dallas, 1993. Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Second International Symposium on the Biology of Root Formation, Jerusalem, 1996. Secretary, Plant Growth Regulator Society of America, 1992-1993. Vice President, Plan Growth Regulator Society of America, 1994-1995. 1990 Unit Award for Superior Service. Texas Agricultural Extension Service. 1990 Deputy Chancellor's Award of Excellence. Nancy Benedict Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas, 1996. Leadership and Administration Award, American Society for Horticultural Science Southern Region, 2004. Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Administration, Texas A&M University, 2005. Elected Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 2006. |