Past Lab Members

Undergraduate Students

William (Griff) Hagen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science
Project: Planting density: A potentially underutilized tool to alter yield and quality in hydroponic production
Honors and awards:

• Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Research Assistant
• First Place Oral Presentation (Undergraduate) Department of Plant Sciences Research Symposium
• Third Place Undergraduate Poster Presentation, ASHS Annual Conference
• ​ASHS Annual Conference Travel Grant

Currently a MS Student at Southern Illinois University

Dustin Del Moro
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Sustainable Landscape Design
Project: Leveraging dynamic environmental control to increase lettuce yield and quality
​**Designed the lab logo. Check it out on the home page!
Honors and awards:

• Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Research Assistant
• First Place Oral Presentation (Undergraduate) Department of Plant Sciences Research Symposium
• Second Place Poster Presentation (Undergraduate) Department of Plant Sciences Research Symposium
• ​ASHS Annual Conference Travel Grant

Currently a Masters of Landscape Architecture Student at UT

Lauren Little
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science
Project: The influence of superelevated carbon dioxide and light intensity during mizuna propagation on subsequent greenhouse production.
Honors and awards:

• Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Research Assistant​

Hannah Claflin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Forensic Science

Becca Henegar
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science

Menachem Leib Smolianski
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Science

​Rose Dever
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science

Yuka Kawata
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Biology

Maddie Spradley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Biology

Saydie Hillis
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences
Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science

Brian Dooley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Biology

Tyler Ellison
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Plant Sciences