1. GWENDOLYN D. L. BOYD
601-661-6215/ 3103 Jeff Davis Road, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180/ 4gwenboyd33@hotmail.com
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PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Results-oriented professional with experience researching, advising, writing and instructing for multiple audiences.
Recognized as a seasoned person with a strong capacity to learn new things. Proven expertise in combining development
and PR expertise to achieve publication. Accomplished taking programs from concept to launch and presenting research
for global audiences and journals. Experienced generating interest and presenting research at conferences.
 Research & Development
 Strategic Planning
 Program Management
 Content Creation
 Public Relations
 Team Collaboration
K E Y A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S
 Appointed to Chair various school and departmental meetings (Department Chaplin, Search Committee Member
for Department Chair, Dean, Research Scientist for Experiment Station, and Technician for Experiment Station).
 Elected to Chair the 1890 Agroforestry Consortium.
 Elected as Chair of the Mississippi Forestry Association Youth Committee
 Improved initiatives while working on various university committees including the SACS Leadership team,
Program Review Committee, and Budget Advisory Committee.
 Served as a Member of Faculty Senate (as Vice-President) and Faculty Assembly (as President).
 Selected to be a Board member of the State of Mississippi “Land, Water, and Timber Resources Board”.
 Served as Webelos Leader for Vicksburg, Mississippi Cub Scouts (Pack 104)
 Serves as Achievement Record Keeper with the Vicksburg, Mississippi Boy Scouts (Troop 76)
M A N A G E M E N T
 Drive projects through the pipeline while overseeing planning, analytical techniques, logistics, payments, budget,
conference meetings and status reporting.
 Increase transparency with quality evaluations, collections, visualizations and analysis.
 Liaise with all involved teams, coordinating deliverables for projects to achieve milestones and timelines.
 Improve research exposure by writing/editing clear proposals, annual reports and presentations of results.
 Foster effective technical analysis, applying state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, data-mining methods and
statistical methods for the high-throughput analysis of datasets.
 Enhance funding efforts by writing strategic and engaging grant proposals and scientific publications.
 Deliver strong results with controlled metrics for research and interpretation by defining systems for analysis.
 Track recurring issues to drive resolutions at the root-cause level with continuous improvement initiatives.
P R O F E S S I O N A L HI S T O R Y
ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY, Alcorn State, MS 1999 – Present
Associate Professor of Agriculture
 Develop student knowledge and abilities by deploying measurable systems to identify progress for undergraduate
and graduate students.
 Improve current student positioning with lessons directly correlated with student levels and interests.
 Actively engage students by providing differentiated instruction and developing interdisciplinary curriculums
with project and research based activities.
 Adopt a comfortable office and classroom environment conducive to advising and learning.
 Evaluate and analyze student performance to improve initiatives in department lesson planning.
 Successfully coordinate academic events that achieve widespread attendance with engaging content.

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 Taught undergraduate classes in General Forestry, General Horticulture, Forest Management, Agriculture Seminar,
Survey of Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Forest Pathology, Wood Chemistry, Wood Products, and Wood
Science & Technology.
 Taught graduate class in Thesis II
ED U C A T I O N
Ph.D., Forest Products (Wood Science & Technology), Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
M.S., Forest Products (Wood Science & Technology), Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
B.S., Chemistry, Alcorn State University, Lorman, MS
P U B L I C A T I O N S
“ALLEY CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR LANDOWNERS”. In-house publication, August, 2015. “ALLEY CROPPING”. Train
the Trainers Agroforestry Manual, October 2014. “SILVOPASTURE SYSTEM” In-house publication August 2013. “ALLEY
CROPPING” In: Profitable Farms and Woodlands: A Practical Guide in Agroforestry for Landowners, Farmers, and
Ranchers, Summer 2012. “SILVOPASTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT”. In-house publication, August, 2012.
“GROWING OAK TREES”. In-house publication, August, 2010. “TREE PHYSICIAN: THAT’S STEMULATING”. In-house
publication. July, 2009. “IT’S A TREE” In-house publication July, 2008. “TREES AND HORSES: WHAT’S THE
COMBINATION”. Port Gibson Reveille, August 2007. “TREES: HOW LONG WILL THEY EXIST”. Port Gibson Reveille,
September, 2007. “LEMON TREES IN MISSISSIPPI”. F2 Fruits of Forestry Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 3. May 9, 2006.
P R E S E N T A T I O N S
Alley Cropping, Training on Sustainable Agroforestry Practices in the Southeastern Region, Tuskegee, Alabama,
September, 2015
Alley Cropping, Training Women in Agroforestry, Raleigh, North Carolina, November, 2014
Alley Cropping, Trainers Training Workshop an 1890 Consortium Initiative, Tuskegee, Alabama, October 2014
Pine Trees and Genetics, Forest Modeling Research Cooperative, Spanish Fort, AL, December 2012
Silvopasture Systems at Alcorn State University, McIntire-Stennis Collaboration Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2011
Progression of Silvopasture, Alcorn State University, Mississippi Forestry Commission Annual Meeting, Pearl, MS 2011
Oak Growth Parameters Using Organic Fertilizers, Alcorn State University Field Day Event, 2008