We thank you for your continued support in enhancing and providing support for our departmental members, the State of Maryland, and the world!
Your support can ensure that faculty, students and facilities have the resources needed to keep pace with emerging diseases, threats to our food supply or new environmental risks.
Fighting world hunger. Building sustainable housing. Saving the Chesapeake Bay. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is at the heart of the University of Maryland’s original land-grant mission to serve the state and improve the quality of life in Maryland and beyond. Students and faculty are investigating important contemporary topics including food and water safety, nutrition and human health, genomics, biotechnology, animal diseases and welfare, and the environment.
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Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Fighting world hunger. Building sustainable housing. Saving the Chesapeake Bay. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is at the heart of the University of Maryland’s original land-grant mission to serve the state and improve the quality of life in Maryland and beyond. Students and faculty are investigating important contemporary topics including food and water safety, nutrition and human health, genomics, biotechnology, animal diseases and welfare, and the environment. Your support can ensure that faculty, students and facilities have the resources needed to keep pace with emerging diseases, threats to our food supply or new environmental risks.
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA) Chair Discretionary Fund
This Fund is used by the Chair of the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture to best serve the changing needs of the department.
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA) Crop Science Teaching Lab Fund
Fighting world hunger. Building sustainable housing. Saving the Chesapeake Bay. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is at the heart of the University of Maryland’s original land-grant mission to serve the state and improve the quality of life in Maryland and beyond. Students and faculty are investigating important contemporary topics including food and water safety, nutrition and human health, genomics, biotechnology, animal diseases and welfare, and the environment. Your support can ensure that faculty, students and facilities have the resources needed to keep pace with emerging diseases, threats to our food supply or new environmental risks.
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA) Landscape Architecture Fund
This Fund supports the educational mission of the Landscape Architecture program.
Christopher S. Walsh Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Fund
This fund supports one annual award to a graduate student who is a teaching assistant in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture. Recipients are selected by the Undergraduate Education Committee of the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Emery Family Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources who are enrolled in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture.
Kathleen Hunt Staff Excellence Award
Kathy has been a lifelong educator, for 27 years she enjoyed working in the horticulture and plant science departments. Working in academia with students, staff and faculty brought its challenges, but she quickly discovered it was the people who made the positive difference each day. After retiring in January 2015, she felt it was important to make a commitment to fund an award acknowledging the valuable role of staff who contribute significantly to the department’s success. This fund supports an outstanding service award for staff in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Norton-Brown Herbarium Fund
The Norton-Brown Herbarium is the largest and most representative collection of Maryland plants. With specimens dating from the 1820s to the present day, the collection documents the changes in Maryland’s flora from our rural, agricultural past to our urban and suburban present. The herbarium plays an essential role in detecting, identifying and documenting the distribution and abundance of plant species as they change in response to land use and climate.
Through research, education, and translating research to policy and management we help to fulfill University of Maryland’s Land Grant mission. By supporting the Norton-Brown Herbarium, you are contributing to our expertise in Maryland’s rare plants, invasive plants, and aquatic plants. You also contribute to the conservation of the botanical diversity that is so important in maintaining water quality in rivers, lakes, and the Chesapeake Bay for generations to come.
Pomology Support Fund
Dr. Christopher S. Walsh established the Pomology Support Fund in December 2017 to provide summer funding for talented undergraduate and graduate students with interest in applied research or extension programs that will benefit Maryland fruit producers. Dr. Walsh is a professor of Pomology in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture.
Rebecca Selleck Sustainable Crop Research Scholarship Fund
Fighting world hunger. Building sustainable housing. Saving the Chesapeake Bay. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is at the heart of the University of Maryland’s original land-grant mission to serve the state and improve the quality of life in Maryland and beyond. Students and faculty are investigating important contemporary topics including food and water safety, nutrition and human health, genomics, biotechnology, animal diseases and welfare, and the environment. Your support can ensure that faculty, students and facilities have the resources needed to keep pace with emerging diseases, threats to our food supply or new environmental risks.
Steven Cohan Endowed Scholarship in Landscape Studies
Dr. Steven Cohan retired after seventeen years as Professor of the Practice in the Plant Science and Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Maryland. He was an active participant in the National Association of Landscape Professionals and hosted the Student Career Days at Maryland in 2005; he presided over a strong industry advisory board and he influenced many additional students with his textbook, Business Principles in Landscape Contracting, and most importantly his personal commitment, energy, and influence. In order to honor Dr. Steve Cohan and help his mission carry on this fund was created for an annual scholarship in his name.
The Steven Cohan Scholarship in Landscape Studies will provide undergraduate merit scholarships to incoming students (Freshman, transfers or changes to this major) for landscape studies in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Turfgrass Pathology Research Fund
This fund supports the turfgrass pathology position in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at UMCP. The spendable income is used to: support graduate student assistantships, post doctorate research associates and technical support staff; purchase of research equipment and supplies; and to support travel expenses for graduate students and post doctorate research associates presenting papers at professional meetings.
William J. Kenworthy Growing in Excellence Fund
This Fund is used by the Chair of the Plant Science and Landscape Architecture Department to support the academic mission of the Department, such as for speakers, research support, and/or student activities.
