Committee for Diversity and Equality Committee


Mission Statement

Assists cultural minorities in areas such as training, career opportunities, professional advancement, activities at the annual meetings, communication and recognition of significant contributions made to APS by minorities, facilitation of social contacts, and encouragement of greater personal growth.

Annual Reports

2002   2003   2004   2006   2007  

Committee Officers

Chair

Maria Luisa Burgos
Penn State
933 W Aaron Dr
State College, PA  16803
Phone:  (814) 865-3562
Email:  mlb483@psu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Immediate Past Chair

Sarah B. Ware
Ball Horticultural Co
622 Town Road
West Chicago, IL  60185
Phone:  (630) 231-3600x3551
Email:  sware@ballhort.com
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Vice Chair

Li-Jun Ma
Broad Inst
7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA  02141
Phone:  (617) 258-5091
Email:  lijun@broad.mit.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Maritza Abril
Louisiana State University
Biological Sciences Dept
202 Life Sciences Bldg
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
Phone:  (225) 578-8562
FAX:  (225) 578-2597
Email:  maritza@lsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Charles W. Bacon
USDA ARS
Russell Research Center
PO Box 5677
Athens, GA  30604-5677
Phone:  (706) 546-3142
FAX:  (706) 546-3116
Email:  charles.bacon@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Asha M. Brunings
Univ of Florida
Horticultural Science Dept
PO Box 110690 - 1301 Fifield Hall
Gainesville, FL  32611-0690
Phone:  (352) 392-1928
Email:  brunings@ufl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Carolee T. Bull
USDA ARS
1636 E Alisal St
Salinas, CA  93905-3018
Phone:  (831) 755-2889
FAX:  (831) 755-2814
Email:  carolee.bull@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Russell Bulluck
USDA APHIS PPQ CPHST
Suite 400
1730 Varsity Dr
Raleigh, NC  27606
Phone:  (919) 855-7646
FAX:  (919) 855-7480
Email:  russ.bulluck@aphis.usda.gov
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Morgan L. Cromwell
Univ of Vermont
Plant & Soil Science Dept
12 Hills Bldg - 105 Carrigan Dr
Burlington, VT  05405-0001
Phone:  (802) 656-9896
FAX:  (802) 656-0285
Email:  morgan.cromwell@uvm.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Sawsan Y. Elateek
Ohio State Univ
OARDC - Plant Pathology Dept
1680 Madison Ave
Wooster, OH  44691
Phone:  (330) 263-3838
FAX:  (330) 263-3841
Email:  elateek.1@osu.edu
Website:  http://oardc.osu.edu/millerlab/People/gradstudents.htm
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Adriana Espinosa
Univ of Florida
Plant Pathology Dept
1453 Fifield Hall
Gainesville, FL  32611
Phone:  (352) 392-3631
Email:  adrianae@ufl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Patricia L. Fashing
USDA ARS
1636 E Alisal Street
Salinas, CA  93905
Phone:  (831) 755-2865
FAX:  (831) 755-2814
Email:  plf@redjellyfish.net
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Norma Cristina Flor
Univ of Florida
Plant Pathology Dept
1453 Fifield Hall - Box 110680
Gainesville, FL  32611
Phone:  (352) 392-3631
Email:  ncflor@ufl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Aakansha Gambhir
North Dakota State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
NDSU Dept 7660 - PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58105-6050
Phone:  (701) 238-9340
Email:  aakansha.gambhir@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Rubella S. Goswami
North Dakota State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
NDSU Dept 7660 - PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58108-6050
Phone:  (701) 231-7077
FAX:  (701) 231-7851
Email:  rubella.goswami@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Wafaa Mohamed Haggag
National Research Center
Plant Pathology Dept
El-Threer Street
Dokki, Cairo,   1400
EGYPT
Phone:  20 2 337 1362
FAX:  20 2 337 0931
Email:  mkelany@link.net
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Leigh Ann Harrison
Virginia Polytechnic Inst
Eastern Shore AREC
33446 Research Dr
Painter, VA  23420
Phone:  (509) 981-8619
Email:  hleigh8@vt.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Maya C. Hayslett
Univ of Wisconsin
Plant Pathology Dept
1630 Linden Dr
Madison, WI  53706
Phone:  (608) 263-2949
FAX:  (651) 649-5055
Email:  mch@plantpath.wisc.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Ermita Hernandez
Penn State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
206A Buckhout Lab
University Park, PA  16802-4507
Phone:  (814) 863-6733
Email:  exh922@psu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Dorothy M. Hinton
USDA ARS TMRU
Richard Russell Research Center
950 College Station Road - PO Box 5677
Athens, GA  30613
Phone:  (706) 546-3195
FAX:  (706) 546-3116
Email:  dorothy.hinton@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Christine M. Horlock
Queensland Primary Industries & Fisheries
Biosecurity Queensland
LMB 4
Moorooka,   
AUSTRALIA
Phone:  61 7 3362 9596
Email:  christine.horlock@deedi.qld.gov.au
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Ping Lu
Univ of Georgia
Plant Pathology Dept
Miller Plant Sciences Bldg
Athens, GA  30602-7274
Phone:  (706) 201-1758
Email:  pamelalu@uga.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Shaista Lunden
Missouri State Univ
Agriculture (Fruit Experiment Station)
9740 Red Spring Road
Mountain Grove, MO  65711
Phone:  (471) 547-7510
Email:  shaistalunden@missouristate.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Kendall J. Martin
William Paterson Univ
Biology Dept
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ  07470
Phone:  (973) 720-3452
FAX:  (973) 720-2338
Email:  martinK31@wpunj.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Febina M. Mathew
North Dakota State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
Dept 7660 - PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58102
Phone:  (701) 231-7855
Email:  febina.mathew@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Shanna A. Mazurek
80 Christmas Tree Lane
Milford, NH  03055-4203
Email:  shanna.mazurek@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Gladys C. Y. Mbofung
Iowa State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
173 University Village Unit B
Ames, IA  50010
Phone:  (515) 294-9188
FAX:  (515) 294-9420
Email:  gmbofung@iastate.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Rebecca Melanson
Louisiana State University
Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology
302 Life Sciences Building
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
Phone:  (225) 578-1394
Email:  rmelanson@agcenter.lsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Rachel L. Melnick
Penn State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
207 Buckhout Laboratory
University Park, PA  16802
Phone:  (814) 404-5090
Email:  rlm302@psu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Anissa M. Poleatewich
Penn State Univ
39 Barfarm Dr
Port Matilda, PA  16870
Phone:  (814) 863-6733
Email:  amd306@psu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Maria Mercedes Roca
Zamorano Univ
PO Box 93
Tegucigalpa,   
HONDURAS
Phone:  504 776 6332
FAX:  504 776 6242
Email:  mmroca@zamorano.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Pamela Rojas
USDA ARS
Horticultural Crops Research Lab
3420 NW Orchard Ave
Corvallis, OR  97330
Phone:  (541) 738-4040
Email:  projas_utal@yahoo.es
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Dija Selimi
Univ of Wisconsin
Plant Pathology Dept
1630 Linden Dr
Madison, WI  53706
Phone:  (608) 576-3860
Email:  dijaselimi@gmail.com
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

David Serrano
Broward Community College
Biological Sciences
3501 SW Davie Rd, Bldg 7, Rm 140
Davie, FL  33317
Phone:  (954) 201-6401
Email:  dserrano@ufl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Nidhi Sharma
Univ of Alberta
Agric, Food & Nutritional Science
4-10 Ag Forestry Centre
Edmonton, AB  T6G 2P5
CANADA
Phone:  (780) 492-3288
Email:  nsharma@ualberta.ca
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Jan L. Stephens
Colorado State Univ
Bioagricultural Sciences & Pest Mgmt
1177 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO  80523
Phone:  (970) 491-1594
FAX:  (970) 491-3862
Email:  jsteph@lamar.colostate.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Amanda Terry
Bayer CropScience
2 TW Alexander Dr
PO Box 12014
Res Triangle Park, NC  27709
Phone:  (919) 549-2722
Email:  amanda.terry@bayercropscience.com
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011


Member

Tania Y. Toruno
Univ of Nebraska
N313 Beadle Center
1901 Vine Street
Lincoln, NE  68588-0660
Phone:  (402) 472-0500
FAX:  (402) 472-3139
Email:  ttoruno2@unl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Lindsay R. Triplett
Michigan State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
103 CIPS
East Lansing, MI  48824-1312
Phone:  (517) 353-3272
FAX:  (517) 353-5598
Email:  endersli@msu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Charles H. Walkinshaw, Jr.
511 2nd Ave
Columbus, GA  31901-3106
Phone:  (706) 321-3387
Email:  walkalbi@charter.net
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Nicole Ward
Louisiana State Univ
Plant Path & Crop Physiology
302 Life Sciences Bldg
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
Phone:  (225) 578-1371
Email:  nward@agcenter.lsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Amanda F. Watson
Univ of Florida
1405 SW 10th Terr Apt38
Gainesville, FL  32601
Phone:  (803) 480-1322
Email:  afwatso@ufl.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Aimin Wen
North Dakota State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
NDSU Dept 7660 - PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58108-6050
Phone:  (701) 231-7869
FAX:  (701) 231-7851
Email:  a.wen@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Anna E. Whitfield
Kansas State Univ
Plant Sciences Dept
4024 Throckmorton Hall
Manhattan, KS  66506
Phone:  (785) 532-3364
Email:  aewtospo@ksu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Li Yan
Univ of Georgia
Apt P-208
200 Rogers Road
Athens, GA  30605
Phone:  (706) 614-5212
Email:  yanli@uga.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Bo Yang
Univ of Alberta
Agric Food & Nutritional Science
Rm 410, Agriculture Forestry Ctr
Edmonton, AB  T6G 2P5
CANADA
Phone:  (780) 492-3288
Email:  byang@ualberta.ca
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Lili Zhang
Penn State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
207 Buckhout Lab
University Park, PA  16802-4507
Phone:  (814) 206-6027
Email:  luz112@psu.edu
Term:  08/25/2009 - 08/10/2011



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