January 31, 2024
Cheryl Boyer recognized as Professor of the Week
Cheryl Boyer, professor of horticulture and natural resources and extension specialist, was recognized as Professor of the Week at the Jan. 30 men's home basketball game. Faculty Senate, the Office of the President, K-State Athletics and the Division of Communications and Marketing wish to recognize her contributions to K-State.
Boyer's work engages stakeholders from a broad range of horticultural applications like plant breeders, wholesale nurseries, garden centers, landscape contractors, consumers and the public. She has developed innovative learning resources for ornamental plant selection for Kansas landscapes, nursery production best practices and new-media marketing for agricultural businesses. Boyer is behind the scenes of the popular K-State Garden Hour webinar series and excels in online, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences for a variety of stakeholder audiences. She has most recently been interviewed for popular press articles in USA Today and National Public Radio Kansas.
Boyer serves as the extension program director for the horticulture and natural resources department and as the agriculture and natural resources program leader coordinator for K-State Research and Extension. She has been instrumental in shaping Extension engagement in these broad capacities by working closely with agents and specialists in all 105 Kansas counties. She engages regionally and nationally with the North Central Region Agriculture and Natural Resources Program leaders as well as multistate research groups. A strong collaborator, Boyer has published scholarship in journals related to horticulture, extension, sustainability, forestry, agronomy, agricultural communications and agricultural economics/business. She is a co-founder of the transdisciplinary Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement with colleagues at the University of Florida and the University of Minnesota.
Boyer has received numerous awards for her extension and research work from the American Society for Horticultural Science Extension Division, the Association for Communication Excellence, Epsilon Sigma Phi, Gamma Sigma Delta and K-State Research and Extension.