Bio

Roger Hangarter is a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Biology at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and did postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. Hangarter was Associate Professor of Botany at The Ohio State University. He has served as a Program Officer for the National Science Foundation, USDA, and DOE grant programs. He also served in numerous leadership roles for the American Society of Plant Biologists (including the role of the Society’s President). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Dr. Hangarter has served on several Editorial Boards and won many  awards including Teaching Awards from the ASPB and the Botanical Society of America, a MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources, the Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Award from the NSF and AAAS, and an Emmy Award for Photography (Great Lakes Region). 

Hangarter developed the sLowlife and Plant Dance exhibits, and the Plants-In-Motion website to bring a greater awareness of plants to broad audiences. Hangarter’s photography and time-lapse movies have been exhibited in various museums and galleries including The US Botanic Garden, Washington DC, The Chicago Botanic Gardens; the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University; The Science Museum of Minnesota; Clifford C. Hach Gallery, Philadelphia; The David Weinberg Collection, Chicago; Field Museum, Chicago; Museum of Science and Technology in Santiago, Chile; the Montshire Science Museum, Vermont; and SPACE 151, Levi Art + Architecture, San Francisco, CA.

Click here for Hangarter’s CV or here for my Google Scholar report.