Dr. Rebecca Brown

Professor

University of Rhode Island

210 Woodward Hall
Kingston, RI 02883

(w) (401) 874-2755

About

Dr. Brown leads the vegetable program at URI. She has a 3-way appointment with responsibilities for teaching, research, and extension, and the program is fully integrated. The URI vegetable program focuses on peri-urban and direct-market production systems. Dr. Brown was trained in vegetable breeding and genetics at the University of Minnesota and Oregon State University. She has been at URI since 2005. In addition to working on all aspects of vegetable production, Dr. Brown conducts research on cover crops, forage crops, and the use of grasses and forbs native to New England in low-input landscapes, particularly roadsides.