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BIOGRAPHY Dr.
Christine Waddill currently serves as Center Director for the Belle
Glade Research and Education Center.
She joined the faculty at the University of Florida as Dean for
Extension and Director of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service on
August 23, 1995 and stepped down as Dean on October 3, 2003.
Originally from Rochester, New York, Dr. Waddill received her
B.A. from Smith College in 1975 and her M.S. and Ph.D., in the field of
plant pathology, from the Ohio State University. In
October of 1978, she joined the faculty of Michigan State University, in
the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, as an Extension Specialist
and Assistant Professor. She
assumed administrative responsibilities as project leader of the
Extension group and supervisor of the Multi-disciplinary Clinic in 1980. For 10 years she conducted an Extension and Research Program
in identification of disease pathogens, disease development and control
of vegetable and floriculture disease problems.
She became a full professor in that department in 1989. She
began an Extension Administrative Internship in November of 1988 which
ended when she was appointed Assistant to the Director in February of
1989. She continued in this
capacity until June 1990 when she was asked to serve as Acting Assistant
Director of the Agriculture and Marketing Program in the Cooperative
Extension Service with Michigan State University.
In May of 1992, she was selected as the Assistant Dean and
Program Director for the newly created Agriculture and Natural Resource
Director position and served in that position until she accepted the
appointment to her current position.
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