Rick Ward

Phoenix, Arizona Area United States

Professor at University of Arizona

Education

My PhD is in agronomy. I worked as an international maize breeder between 1981 and 1988 with CIMMYT and Pioneer Overseas Corporation. I was CIMMYT's (www.cimmyt.org) first staff to be posted to Zimbabwe where I built the Mid-Altitude Maize Research Station and started our breeding there in 1985-'88. During that time I helped Malawi's NARS transition to semi-dent maize hybrids. From 1989 until 2006 I held a tenure track faculty position at Michigan State University where I was the wheat breeder in the department of Crop and Soil Sciences. I had a 75% research, 25% teaching appointment but I also did outreach/extension. I was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in 1995....