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2009 Keynote Speakers
Monday,
January 26, 2009
7:45 – 8:00 am
Welcoming Remarks and Scholarship Presentations
Bruce Leuthold, Vice
President, Mid-Atlantic Horticulture Short Course
8:00 – 8:30 am
Jerzy Nowak, Director, Virginia Tech Center for
Peace Studies and Violence Prevention
The concept for the
Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention originated as a
post-traumatic reaction of the Virginia Tech community to the tragedy of April
16, 2007. Its mission is to
develop trans-disciplinary programs that build on cultural, academic and
security initiatives of the University that evolved after this tragedy. The Center has adopted three thematic
areas: prevention of violence, the
study of peace and development of New Leaders for this century.
In July 2008, Jerzy
Nowak was appointed Founding Director of the Center for Peace Studies and
Violence Prevention. He previously
served as Professor and Head for the Virginia Tech Department of Horticulture
(200-2008.) For the 16 years prior
to coming to Virginia, he worked as a Professor of Plant Biotechnology and Head
of the Department of Plant Science at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in
Nova Scotia, Canada. He was raised
on his family farm and educated in both Poland and West Germany. During his professional career, he
conducted research at the Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in
Gottingen, the German Institute of Biotechnology in Braunschweig-Stockheim, West
Germany, and the University of Alberta in Canada. Between 1980 and 1982, he taught at the University of Lagos,
Nigeria. In recent years, Dr.
Nowak has been a leader in organizing research, education and outreach missions
of the Institute of Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, VA (www.ialr.org) aiming at socio-economic transformation of
traditional tobacco and textile dependent communities including their
youth-at-risk. He has authored /
co-authored 96 research articles and over 100 other publications.
VCH = .5 CEU for LCM: M | ALCM: L | VCH | VSLD
8:30 – 9:15 am
K2 KEYNOTE: Bettering Our
World: Our Environment is What We
Make It
Tayloe Murphy, former Virginia Secretary of Natural
Resources, House of Delegates
All of our living and natural resources are
encompassed in “environmental protection.” Federal, state and local governments, as well as businesses
and individuals, must adhere to some fundamentalprinciplesin order to protect
our land, water, air and living resources. Discover some of the programs that exist to protect our
environment, and learn why some have succeeded while others have failed. Mr. Murphy’s remarks conclude with an
assessment of the “politics” of natural resource conservation, and we have all
had our fill of “politics” this year!
The
Honorable William Tayloe Murphy, Jr., received his LL.B. degree from the
University of Virginia Law School in 1960 and has been practicing law for more
than 45 years. Mr. Murphy has been at the forefront of Chesapeake Bay protection and
restoration throughout his career. As a member of the Virginia House of
Delegates from 1982 to 2000, he authored the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act
and the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Act. From 2002
– 2006, Mr. Murphy served as Virginia’s Secretary of Natural
Resources. With his roots in the Northern Neck of
Virginia, Tayloe
Murphy has been a leading voice for environmental interests for decades.
VCH = 75 CEU for LCM: HM | ALCM: HL | VCH | VSLD
Wednesday,
January 28, 2009
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Recognition of Landscape
Crew Manager Program Certifications from 2008 and Closing Remarks
John Eberwine,
President, The Virginia Horticultural Foundation
2:30 – 3:30 pm
K3 CAPSTONE:
Breeding
Breakthroughs and Untapped Ornamental Plants for the Landscape
Robert
E. Lyons, Professor of Landscape Horticulture, University of Delaware,
Director,
Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture
Gotta have the craziest plants in your garden, not
for clients, mind you, but in your very own beds? Rarely has the palette of ornamental
landscape plant possibilities been so diverse. Whether throughhybridization or
selection of native or non-native plants, there is a plethora of herbaceous and
woody options for contemporary gardeners and landscapers. This talk considers a
handful of them, and highlights the tried and true that deserve continued use
for years to come. This is an exciting time
for gardeners and horticulturists because there are new plants available in colors, textures and
fragrances that we previously thought were impossible!
Dr. Lyons is a Professor
of Landscape Horticulture, the Program Director for the Longwood Graduate
Program in Public Horticulture, and Director of the Center for Public
Horticulture at the University of Delaware since 2005. He has taught courses in
herbaceous plant materials, their diversity, and use in the landscape while on
the faculty of Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, and now at the
University of Delaware. He
co-founded and became the first Director of the Virginia Tech Horticulture
Gardens during his tenure from 1981 – 1998 (now the Hahn Horticulture
Garden). In 1999, he became
Director of the JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State where he remained through
2004. The Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture trains graduate
students to enter leadership positions at botanical gardens, arboreta, and
other institutions within the field of public horticulture. His teaching awards
include the University Wine Award for undergraduate teaching at Virginia Tech,
the Chadwick Award from the American Nursery and Landscape Association, and the
Outstanding Educator Award from the American Society for Horticultural
Science. In 2008, Lyons was named
a Fellow in the American Society for Horticultural Science and that same year
he was the recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award from the
University of Minnesota where he received his M.S. and Ph.D.; his B.A. is from
Rutgers.
A photographer for more
than 25 years, Dr. Lyons has been published widely in homeowner, commercial,
and educational publications (print and electronic); he has exhibited and
lectured nationally about horticultural photography and has received awards
from the Garden Writers Association of America for both his photography and
writings.
VCH
= 1 CEU for ISA: AM Bs | LCM: H | ALCM: H | VCH | VSLD Speakers
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