Mission Statement
The Radford University Greenhouse supports the educational and research needs of the Department of Biology in the Artis College of Science and Technology. It serves those needs by:
- maintaining a diverse living reference collection to facilitate and supplement teaching in the areas of biology, botany, systematics and ecology,
- growing a variety of plant materials each semester for introductory and advanced level teaching laboratories,
- managing growing areas for student experiments,
- providing faculty researchers with professionally managed growing space to conduct research,
- maintaining conservatory areas to demonstrate ecological concepts and economically important plants to the Radford community, including area elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and alternative school groups, and
- providing facilities, materials, and expertise for summer science workshops, various special interest seminars and related public outreach programs.
The Greenhouse Collection includes a diversity of plants from around the world found in a variety of different habitats. The environmental conditions required by our specimens are maintained in three separate rooms, each with its own climate control.
Contact the Greenhouse Manager
Stephanie Huckestein
Greenhouse Manager
540-831-5815
shuckestein@radford.edu