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Summer Internship – 2024

Explore the development of new nursery, bioenergy and specialty crops! Specific duties include transplanting, pollinations, seed and cutting propagation, tissue culture, cytology, plot maintenance, data...

Year-Long Research Internship – 2024

Dive deep into the development of new nursery, bioenergy, and specialty crops! Spend a transformative year in Mills River, NC, assisting faculty and staff  at...

Summer Internship – 2023

Interested in a summer internship working on breeding and development of new nursery, bioenergy, and specialty crops? This position involves assisting faculty and staff to...

Year-Long Research Internship – 2022

Interested in a year-long internship working on breeding and development of new nursery, bioenergy, and specialty crops?  This position involves assisting faculty and staff with...

Summer Internship – 2022

Interested in a summer internship working on breeding and development of new nursery, bioenergy, and specialty crops?  This position involves assisting faculty and staff with...

Summer Intership – 2021

  Interested in a summer internship working on breeding and development of new nursery and bioenergy crops? This position involves assisting graduate students and staff...

Spirea Double Play Doozie wins Gold Medal

Double Play Doozie the first continuous flowering sterile spirea wins Gold Medal at the international KVBC Plantarium Summer Challenge. Awards presentation ceremony video Award presented...

Full time Job Opportunity

The Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station is seeking applicants for a Research Specialist with responsibility for the operational management of greenhouse operations as well as...

Summer Intership – 2020

  Interested in a summer internship working on breeding and development of new nursery and bioenergy crops? This position involves assisting graduate students and staff...

Innovator of the Year

Tom Ranney received the Innovator of the Year award for his work in plant breeding and new-crop development. Ranney, a horticultural science expert and the...