At the 2021 joint meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and the American Pomological Society (APS), Cornell apple researcher Terence Robinson was elected an ASHS Fellow, awarded the APS’s Wilder Medal and was co-author of the best article published in the APS’s journal in 2020.
Robinson is a professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science based at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, N.Y., where he started his professional career in 1984 after receiving his PhD from Washington State University.
Established in 1873, the prestigious Wilder Medal is conferred on individuals or organizations for outstanding service to horticulture in the broad area of pomology, the science of growing fruit. Robinson’s varied career contributions are particularly noteworthy.