Cary Arthur Mitchell

Background

Mitchell, Cary Arthur was born on July 28, 1943 in Woodstock, Illinois, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Science, University of Illinois, 1965; Master of Science in Horticulture, Cornell Univercity, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Physiology, University of California, Davis, 1972.

Career

Assistant professor plant physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1972-1978; associate professor plant physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1978-1984; professor plant physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, since 1984. Horticulture panel chair binat. agricultural research and development fund USDA, chair vice chair, secretary NCR-101 commission on controlled environment use and technical. Member space station utilization advisory subcommittee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, science working group, biological research project for space station utilication, science and technical working group CELSS test facility for space station, CELSS discipline working group.

Achievements

• Cary Arthur Mitchell has been listed as a noteworthy Plant physiology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Foundation board directors, First United Methodist Church, member chancel choir, member of advisory board directors, member finance committee, member property acquisition committee, member pastor-parish committee, member focus on the future task force. Volunteer American HeartAssn. Coach Little League Baseball and Soccer.

Troop committee, pack leader, volunteer cub scouts Boy Scouts American, Young Men’s Christian Association Indian Trail Guides. Member Freedom Singers of Greater Lafayette. Fellow American Society for Horticultural Science (chair science priorities committee, chair congressional fellow selection committee, venture fund committee, publications committee, controlled environments and stress physiology working groups).

Member Am.Phys. Society (Shock Compression Science award 1997), American Society Plant Physiologists (commission on status of women in plant physiology), American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (president, Board of Governors, program chair national.meeting, chair public policy and legislation affairs committee, arranger congressional visits), American Society for Advancement of Science, American Society Photobiology, American Institute Biological Sciences(panel grant proposal reviews), Hydroponic Society American, Sigma Xi, Pi Alpha Xi, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Gamma Alpha, Phi Eta Sigma.