VISION:
Our vision is to conduct innovative research, teaching and outreach on the patterns and process of life with a focus on plants and their environment.
MISSION:
Our mission is to foster an environment of excellence by attracting andsupporting the outstanding student, faculty and staff needed to sustain ourvision we focus on the pattern and process thatenable predictive understandingto plant and their environments to local,regional and global scale, leading to strengths in the areas of ecology,evolution and systematic.