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Name: Paul
Lichtman
Title: Advisor, AgriScience Research Program
Place of Work or School: Uniondale High School
Research Area: Precollege Science Research: Plant Science and Environmental
Science
Member since: 2005
1. Why has being
a member of ASPB been important?
It provides a professional connection from motivated high school students
engaged in high-level plant science to professionals in the field.
2. Was someone
instrumental in getting you to join ASPB?
Dr. Crispin Taylor.
3. What would you
tell colleagues to encourage them to join?
That it’s time for precollege students to become more informed, and
in the plant sciences, ASPB is the best answer.
4. Have you enhanced
your career using ASPB job postings or through networking at an ASPB function?
No.
5. Have you had
any success at finding candidates as a result of a job posting at the
meeting or on our online Job Bank?
N/A
6. Do you read
print journals? If so, where do you usually read them?
I order them through our county library retrieval service.
7. What do you
think is the next “big thing” in plant biology?
N/A (at least for me at this point)
8. What person,
living or deceased, do you most admire?
George Washington Carver—with so little, he accomplished so much.
His humility is legendary.
9. What are you
reading these days?
New texts on agriscience, horticultural biology, and plant sciences.
10. What are your
hobbies?
White water rafting.
11. What is your
most treasured possession?
A walking stick made from a tree from Mt. Desert Island, Acadia National
Park, Maine.
12. What do you
still have left to learn?
So much, so little space, so little time.
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