Christine Smart
Director and Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, New York, USA
Motivation: I want to help provide solutions to problems facing agriculture. I’m inspired by the growers I work with and the determination they have to produce a healthy crop in a sustainable manner with minimal environmental impact. And working with students is my daily reminder that our future is bright.
Lessons learned: I always learn as much (sometimes more) from projects that fail as I do from the ones that succeed. Just be sure to take the time to think about why it did not work – this increases your chance of success moving forward.
