Cornell University Horticulture Professor Named Outstanding Extension Educator
April 15, 2014 
Terence Robinson, professor of the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Outstanding Extension Educator Award. Robinson will receive the award at the ASHS Annual Conference at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, FL, at the Opening Plenary Session, July 28.
“My research and extension program is aimed at solving practical fruit production problems that will increase the profitability and strength of the New York fruit industry,” says Robinson in his biography on Cornell’s website. “My program is largely field oriented and of an applied nature.”
Robinson focuses his Extension outreach and research on orchard system performance, rootstock research, maximizing new tree growth, crop load and canopy management, irrigation and fertigation, and the economics of orchard systems. His work will be featured in the May issue of American/Western Fruit Grower.
Robinson received his bachelor of science degree from Brigham Young University and his Master of Science and Doctorate of Science at Washington State University. Robinson has been at Cornell University since 1984.
Robinson acknowledges his role as an Extension educator in his biography saying, “I lead the effort to provide high quality in-service training meetings for extension educators by combining our in-service meeting with Michigan and Ontario, Canada. I serve as editor, of the New York Fruit Quarterly which is the primary research reporting magazine that provides the fruit industry with regular communication on the progress of research programs at Cornell.”
The American Society for Horticultural Science Outstanding Extension Educator Award “recognizes an educator who has made an outstanding and valuable contribution to horticultural science extension education for a period of 10 or more years.”
Source: Cornell University horticulture blog
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