William Hare serves as the Associate Dean for Land-grant Programs. He is a research/extension scientist and grant administrator with over 15 years of excellent leadership, management, and land-grant University experience in the specialty areas of Soil Nutrients and Water Resources Management, he served as Director of the DC Water Resources Research Institute for over 12 years and also as Associate Dean/Director of the Cooperative Extension Service in the Community Outreach and Extension Service for close to ten years. Associate Dean Hare has taught Chemical Analysis for Water Quality I & II, Wastewater Management, and Integrated Sciences and Agroecology in the College. He served a four-year term representing the Northeast Region Extension Directors to the National Extension Board call Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) and Chaired ECOP’s Personnel Subcommittee. He currently represents the NE Region Extension Directors on The National 4-H Council Board of Trustees and the Northeast Aquaculture Center Board of Directors. His research interests include enhancing the water and nutrient use efficiency of ethnic and specialty crops as alternative niche crops to tobacco for small and minority farmers. William is a Fulbright Scholar, with MSc. in Soil Science from Purdue University and post-graduate studies at the University of Kentucky, Ph.D.
Experience
Education
Post-graduate Studies, University of Kentucky MSc. in Soil Science, Purdue University
Expertise
Soil Nutrients Water Resource Management Water Quality Agroecology
