Dr. Mark Goodwin

Dr. Goodwin joined the faculty in 2007. Previously he was an adjunct professor teaching the Woody Ornamental Plants and Plant Propagation courses in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.  He earned his Ph.D. at Purdue conducting research into how cuticular waxes confer drought tolerance in plants, increase the shelf-life in tomato and pepper fruits, and increase resistance to slug herbivory in hosta. Prior to that, he learned public horticulture first hand by working in the horticulture department at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, Kentucky. Dr. Goodwin is also the manager of the UCM Greenhouse and Nursery Complex. Dr. Goodwin investigates the productivity of various vegetable varieties by using garden trials and then conducts consumer taste surveys at farmer's markets in order to identify varieties which could be profitable for producers to offer at farmers markets.