Konjoian Joins OSU as Stakeholder in Residence Dr. Peter Konjoian has been appointed for the 2001-2002 academic year as Stakeholder in Residence in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. As such, Peter will interact with an interdisciplinary team of faculty from both the Columbus and Wooster, Ohio campuses. The program will allow him to integrate his commercial greenhouse experience into the established undergraduate teaching programs through guest lectures at OSU's main campus in Columbus and its Wooster campus ATI's two year degree program. He will spend a portion of his time traveling within the state to speak at grower meetings, assisting Dr. Claudio Pasian in this aspect of OSU's extension program. The interdisciplinary team includes OSU's floriculture faculty and faculty in the departments of entomology, plant pathology, and agricultural engineering. Collaboration on research projects between Peter and the team is also anticipated. Goals of the appointment include making contributions to strengthen the relationship between OSU and Ohio's floriculture industry, establish OSU's floriculture program as a significant leader at both the state and national levels, develop collaborative relationships with programs at leading universities in order to serve the floriculture industry more efficiently, and establish OSU as a national clearinghouse of information through the delivery of research based information using the world wide web and other digital technologies. Peter's appointment is built around monthly visits to Ohio from his home in Massachusetts. These trips to Columbus will also allow him to spend more time in the OFA office as part of his recently expanded role within the association. As Peter put it "Planting Ohio Buckeye trees in my back yard hasn't been enough to satisfy my need to be connected. Ohio has been a huge factor in my career and I've been searching for ways to give something back to both Ohio State and OFA."