Advisor: Dr. Suzanne Slack
Degree Sought: PhD
Major: Horticulture
Current Research: Cider apple cultivars: cider quality and tree health in modern training systems.
Career Goals: Supervisor/superintendent of a research station specializing in specialty crop research.
Hometown: Dubuque, Iowa
Hobbies: I’m the head coach of the boxing sports club at Iowa State. We do a lot of traveling via car to boxing competitions, so I can double dip into my other hobby: ‘popcorn’ horror fiction audiobooks. It comes in handy when I need to stay awake on the drive back to Ames when all my athletes are asleep in the back seat…