Rate My Professor Andy Newhouse

Andrew Newhouse serves as a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where he directs the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project. He has been affiliated with the institution since 2003 and earned his PhD in Forest Biotechnology from SUNY ESF in 2021. Newhouse's research centers on the application of biotechnology to tree restoration efforts, with a primary focus on developing transgenic American chestnut trees resistant to chestnut blight. His work incorporates molecular biology laboratory techniques, environmental assessments of transgenic trees, social considerations surrounding biotechnology in conservation, and federal biotechnology regulatory policy. In addition to American chestnut restoration, Newhouse and his team apply biotechnological approaches to protect other threatened tree species, including the Ozark chinquapin, American beech affected by Beech Leaf Disease, and American elm impacted by Dutch elm disease and elm yellows.