Hideka Kobayashi

• Metropolitan Daylily Society (1997-1998)
• Gamma Sigma Delta (1996- present)
• Plant Pathology Graduate Student Association (1996-1998)
• Pi Alpha Xi (1995- present)
• President, Epsilon Chapter (1995-1996)
• Landscape Architecture and Floriculture Forum (1995-1996)
• Scholarship Administrator, (1995-1996)
• Towers (Agricultural Honorary, 1995- 1996)
• Central Ohio Orchid Society (1994- 1999)
• American Orchid Society (1994-1998, 2011-present)

Volunteer and Service Activities:

• Chair, Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants Working Group (2016-present)
• Chair, Tropical Horticulture Working Group (2016-present)
• Founding member, Orchid Working Group (2016-present)
• Chair-elect (2017-2018)
• Mentor for Summer Apprentice Program (2015 and 2016)
• Local representative, American Society for Horticultural Science (2015-present)
• Growing plants for campus uses (2014-2015)
• Probational judge, American Orchid Society (2014-present)
• Chair, The Chidori Orchids Study Group (2013-present)
• Secretary for Tropical Horticulture Working Group (2015-present)
• Secretary for Medicinal Plant Working Group, American Society for Horticultural Science (2013-2015)
• Secretary for Agriculture Sciences, Kentucky Academy of Science (2012-present)
• Moderated and judged student presentations at the 17th ARD Symposium (2013)
• Student judge, American Orchid Society (2011-2014)
• Community Emergency Response Team (2010-present)
• Reviewer for “Plant Cell, Tissue, and Organ Cultures”, a plant science journal (2010-present)
• Membership committee for American Society for Horticultural Science (2007-2010)
• Chairman (2009-2010)
• Cloning lab for the 6th graders at Pathways and Access to Careers in Technology Summer Program (2009)
• Initiated urban gardening projects at Kentucky State University (2008 - present)
• Participated in planning of the Pawpaw Workshop at Kentucky State University (2008)
• Membership committee for the American Society for Horticultural Science
• Demonstrated how to make lip balm and bath salts to extension agents (2007 & 2008)
• Assisted at the Third Thursday Thing, Kentucky State University (2006 & 2008)
• Moderated a session at Association of Research Directors Search Symposium (2006)
• Participated in poster judging at Kentucky Academy of Science (2005)
• Presented a workshop on orchid culture for the Third Thursday Thing, Kentucky State University (2005)
• Assisted at the Kentucky State University Field Day (2005)
• Assisted at the Open House, Japan House, University of Illinois (2000-2003)
• Organized the Illini Orchid Club Orchid Sales (2002 and 2003)
• Assisted at the Congress on In Vitro Biology (2001 and 2003)
• Chairman for the Plant Pathology Graduate Student Association Plant sale (1996 and 1997)
• Assisted at Ohio Florists' Association Short Course (1995 and 1997)
• Chairman for the Landscape Architecture and Floriculture Forum Plant Sale (1995)
• Assisted at Central Ohio Orchid Society Mini-show (1994-1998)
• Volunteer at Chadwick Arboretum (1993-1996)

Awards:

1. Amitostigma keiskei 'Omuro' HCC/AOS (76 pts.)
2. Amitostigma keiskei ‘Shûhô No Kanbase’ HCC/AOS (76 pts.)
3. Amitostigma keiskei 'Mangetsu' HCC/AOS (77 pts.)
4. Amitostigma keiskei 'Gandharva' HCC/AOS (77 pts.)