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Curriculum Vitae

E-mail: rpoincelot@mail.fairfield.edu

Position History
Fairfield University, Fairfield CT 06824
University Administration

  • University Safety Officer: 7/88-
  • Chemical Hygiene Officer: 1/91-
  • Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences: 7/03-

Biology Department

  • Chair: 9/79-6/85, 7/1/96-7/1/03
  • Acting Chairperson: 1/1/95-8/31/95, 5/15/96-6/30/96
  • Professor: 9/90-
  • Associate Professor: 9/80-8/90
  • Assistant Professor: 9/77-8/80

Environmental Science Program

  • Founding Director, 4/96-8/99

Food Products Press, Inc., Binghamton, NY 13904

  • Senior Editor: 4/89-
  • Founding Editor, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (JSA)
  • Former Editor, Journal of Home and Consumer Horticulture
  • Editor, FPP Book Series affiliated with JSA

Roots, Inc., New Haven, CT 06511

  • Consultant Researcher: 3/89-

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

  • Associate Agricultural Biochemist: 7/74-8/77
  • Assistant Agricultural Biochemist: 6/70-6/74

Experience

Administration. Chair, Director: budgeting, financial oversight, program development, hiring, supervision, facilities planning & management, faculty/student evaluation, grants, grant writing, curriculum planning, advising, web page updating, student recruitment and solicitation of alumni donations. The University Safety Officer is responsible for the development, communication, maintenance and monitoring of procedures, programs and buildings that involve academic safety and the management of hazardous biological substances, chemicals and radiochemicals. Duties: budgeting, plan and procedure development, oversight of Chemical Hygiene Plan/hazardous biological substances and chemicals, waste disposal, liaison among academic/university sectors, recommendation/implementation of OSHA and EPA regulations for the academic sector, environmental audits, monitoring and training. Additional experience: extensive computer skills (e-mail, Internet, World Wide Web, web page management, word processing, graphs), and salary/benefits negotiations.

Research. Sustainable agriculture and the effects of seaweed/ compost products on plant propagation (current) and growth, chloroplast membranes and carbonic anhydrase (past).

Teaching. Conventional, team, cluster, lab, summer minority (college bound) and interdisciplinary teaching experience in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Continuing Education. Also independent research with individual students. Courses: Agriculture & Food, Botany, Environmental Health & Safety, General Biology, Horticulture, Plant Biology: Morphology, Biochemistry & Physiology; Plant Biology: Evolution, Diversity & Environment, Plant Physiology, Plant Science; Rainforest Ecosystems, Science, Technology & Society; and Technical Writing.

Publications/Communications

Over 70 agricultural, horticultural and environmental publications on the professional/ public level since 1971. Author of five books: Sustainable Horticulture: Today and Tomorrow, Toward a More Sustainable Agriculture, No-Dig, No-Weed Gardening; Horticulture: Principles and Practical Applications and Gardening Indoors With House Plants. Co-editor of three books: The Contribution of Managed Grasslands to Sustainable Agriculture in the Great Lakes Basin; People-Plant Relationships: Setting Research Priorities; Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology and Environmental Policy. Publications in Plant Physiology, Compost Science, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Journal of Home & Consumer Horticulture, Horticulture, HortScience, New York Times, Organic Gardening and others. Also editing, lecturing and consulting activities. Complete list on request.

Education

  • Ph.D. in biochemistry, Case-Western Reserve University, 1970.
  • B.A. in chemistry, Southern CT State University, 1966.

Certificates:

  • 8 Hour Laboratory Standard, 1990
  • 8 Hour OSHA Training, 1992
  • Asbestos Awareness and Operations/Maintenance, 1998
  • Radiation Safety Officer, 2002
  • Certificate of Business Management, Fairfield University, 1986

Honors

  • National Publications Award, American Horticultural Therapy Association, for co-edited book:
  • People-Plant Relationships, 1995
  • Yale Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship, 6/90-5/91
  • Honorable Mention: Garden Writers' Association of America for Horticulture: Principles and Practical Applications, 1981
  • Certificate of Achievement: Livestock Environmental Sciences Committee of the Great
  • Plains States for top 10% of researchers in environmental relationships, 1974

Societies

  • American Society for Horticultural Sciences
  • Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture & Education
  • Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
  • Garden Writers' Association of America
  • National Association of Science Writers
  • Sigma Xi
  • Campus Safety Association

Committees

USDA:

  • Northeast Region Sustainable Agriculture Research Education Technical Committee, 1/97-3/99

Fairfield University:

  • Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, University Curriculum Committee, 9/98-6/01, 9/02-12/02
  • Planning Committee for New Wing on Bannow Science Building, 3/97-9/02
  • Academic Advisory Board, Graduate School of Education & Allied Professions, 9/96-
  • Academic Advisory Board, Neuroscience B.S. Program, 9/96-9/01
  • Environmental Science Minor Planning Committee, 1/95-4/96, Chair
  • Disaster Planning Committee, 12/95-12/96
  • University Safety Committee, 8/94- ; co-chair, 1/95-9/02
  • Town/Gown Committee, 4/94-6/94
  • Safety Committee, 9/92-7/94
  • Long Range Planning Committee, Physical Plant, 9/91-12/91
  • Committee on Committees, 6/90-6/93
  • Academic Council, 2/89-6/91
  • Salary Committee, 9/88-6/91; Chair, 9/89-9/90
  • Bannow Safety Committee, 9/87-2/91; Chair, 9/87-2/91
  • Roles/Responsibilities of Chairs Committee, 11/84-12/84, 1/81-5/81
  • Resource Person, Faculty Handbook Revision Committee, 5/81ú1/84
  • Health Sciences Recommendations Committee, 9/79-6/83
  • Horticultural Advisor, Faculty Office Building, 9/79-9/81
  • College of Arts & Sciences Honors Program Committee, 9/79-6/80