The Department of Horticulture has 16 research, teaching and extension faculty members and about 40 full-time staff plus additional hourly workers located primarily in Fayetteville, Little Rock, and at research stations in Clarksville and Kibler, AR. The department is home to approximately 15 graduate students and 75 undergraduate students and focuses on sustainable horticulture, landscape and ornamentals, fruit, vegetable, and ornamental/landscape field and controlled environment production, and turfgrass science. The faculty members work throughout the state, have strong relationships at different Division of Agriculture research stations and work directly with producers and other relevant stakeholders. There are several exciting collaborations and novel research and extension opportunities immediately available. Among the six faculty who are actively seeking graduate students, there are projects in ornamentals, public horticulture, physiology, fruit breeding and production, integrated pest management in entomology and weed science, and controlled environment horticulture.
