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Professor Julia Laughlin
Department Head, Horticulture
Office Location: HORT 107C
Office Hours: M-F, 9 AM – 6 PM
Office Phone:
405-945-3348
Office Phone:
405-945-3382
Email: jlaugh@osuokc.edu
Date of Last Update: 09/19/2007
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Student File Available: 100 Cut Flowers.PPT
2007 Bio
Julia holds a BS (1984) and an MS
(1986) in Horticulture from Oklahoma
State University.
She was an honor roll student and named Outstanding Undergraduate during this
time.
From 1987 to 1992, Julia was the
Urban Integrated Pest Management Agent for the Oklahoma County Oklahoma State
University Cooperative Extension Service. During this time she developed and
piloted this program in the Oklahoma
City area. She was awarded several state awards and
two national awards for her program development.
Julia is currently Associate
Professor and Department Head of Horticulture at Oklahoma
State University
in Oklahoma City.
She has been on Faculty at OSU-OKC since 1992 and taught classes in many areas
of her field including Principles of Horticulture, Garden Flowers, Indoor
Plants, Floral Design, Fruits and Vegetables, Horticultural Pest Management and
Horticultural Therapy. She became Department Head of Horticulture in 1999 and
was awarded the “L.E. ‘Dean’ Stringer Award for Teaching Excellence” in 2006.
She is an All-American Selections trial judge for vegetable varieties and
judges at the trial gardens on the grounds of the JEK Horticulture
Center.
.Julia is a 2006 graduate of the
Class XII Oklahoma Agriculture Leadership Program. This program included an
agriculture study tour of Brazil. She recently began arranging and guiding
international conservation study tours for her students and other interested
individuals. In 2007 she lead a group to the Costa
Rican rainforests where students studied the ecology and biology of the
region. In 2008 she will lead a similar
educational tour of Australia
and New Zealand..
Julia speaks on numerous gardening
and horticulture topics throughout the state.
She has written and published many gardening articles including a weekly
garden column in the “Oklahoma Gazzete” She is
building a small farm and orchard at her home in Choctaw, Oklahoma and hopes to
retire to fulltime growing someday.
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