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Mark Campbell teaches a variety of plant and soils courses at Truman State University and continues to have research interests in the genetic improvement of corn for grain quality traits.

Mark Campbell grew up on a farm in southeastern Wisconsin. He received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in agronomy. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia (North Africa) for two years where he did agricultural extension work in an irrigation project on the fringe of the Sahara desert. Afterward he attended Montana state university receiving an M.S. degree in plant genetics and then to Iowa State University receiving a Ph.D. in plant genetics with a co-major in Food Science. He then completed a Post Doctoral experience at Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana in which he assisted in a specialty corn breeding project funded by Cargill. He has been at Truman for eight years and is currently an associate professor in the division of science. He enjoys plants, gardening, small hobby farming, and restoration of vintage farm implements