College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Pamela J. Green
Unidel Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair
Plant and Soil Sciences
Research: The genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of plants.
This chair honors the late Crawford H. Greenwalt, who served as president and chief executive officer of the DuPont Co. from 1948-62, as DuPont chairman for five years until 1967 and as head of its finance committee until 1972. Active in community affairs, he served on several boards of directors in the region. Mr. Greenwalt was married to Margaretta du Pont, who died in 1991.
Yan Jin
Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor
Plant and Soil Sciences
Research: Measurement, modeling, and interpretation of mass transport and transformation in soil and other environmental systems as well as colloidal processes at various interfaces.
Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professorships are funded by the late Edward F. Rosenberg, AS ’29, ’30M and his wife, Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg was a nationally known rheumatologist, and his wife, a graduate of the Curtis Institute, was a concert pianist and harpist.
Kent Messer
S. Hallock du Pont Professor of Applied Economics
Applied Economics and Statistics
Research: Environmental conservation with a focus on land use and sustainable development.
This professorship is named for a generous benefactor who supported a professorship and research in animal husbandry at UD for many years.
Donald L. Sparks
Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair
Plant and Soil Sciences
Research: The chemistry of soil reactions.
The chair is named in honor of S. Hallock du Pont, a generous benefactor who supported a professorship and research in animal husbandry at UD for many years.
Doug Tallamy
T.A. Baker Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
Research: Behavioral ecology of insects; conservation of biodiversity; impact of alien plants on native ecosystems; plant-insect interactions.
The professorship honors Thomas A. Baker, who was a professor of animal husbandry and on the faculty of the then College of Agricultural Sciences for 39 years. He and his wife, Ruth, made a bequest to the college, which established the named professorship.
Tara Trammell
John Bartram Assistant Professor of Urban Forestry
Plant and Soil Sciences
Research: Urban Forestry.
The John Bartram Professor of Urban Forestry is named in honor of John Bartram (1699 – 1777), one of colonial America’s foremost botanists, horticulturalists and plant explorers, and sometimes called the “father of American Botany.” In Bartram’s lifetime, Delaware was part of Pennsylvania, so he surely walked across what would become the University of Delaware campus on his many trips south along the boundary between the piedmont and the coastal plain.
