Texas Christian University
Although I more or less left academia when I moved to Texas, TCU offered the opportunity to continue to mentor graduate students and to help teach courses in conservation of natural resources.
University of North Texas, Health Science Center
When the decision was made to move to Texas, I still was supervising several graduate students from University of Hawai`i and working collaboratively with graduate students from Thailand. UNT provided laboratory space and collaboration opportunities through a prior agreement with BRIT so my students were able to continue their work.
University of Hawai`i, Mānoa
Although I was based within the Botany Department, collaborations and interdisciplinary research projects created opportunities to work in several different programs in Hawai`i. I was hired to produce the world’s first undergraduate degree in Ethnobotany, which happened in 2002. Since then the program has been copied in variations at five other U.S. universities. I supervised more than 30 graduate students, hundreds of undergraduates in botany and biology, and at times up to 5 staff members and multiple federal grants and private contracts for research. I am vested in the state of Hawaii retirement system so will retire as a full professor in the future.
William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
University of Florida
Brigham Young University