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  • Heenkenda Honored for Work Studying Otter Diets
    Otter population growth in Indiana has led to conflict with individuals interested in recreational fisheries as otters prey primarily on fish. PhD student Erangi Heenkenda in Dr. Andrew DeWoody's lab is working to use eDNA sequencing to study the diet of otters to see if allegations that otters prey heavily on sportfish can be substantiated.
  • Couture, Pijanowski Named Entrepreneurship Ambassadors
    Drs. Bryan Pijanowski and John Couture are among a group of 10 faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ambassadors selected by the Purdue College of Agriculture. In this role, the pair will help guide and encourage members of the college who are interested in taking their research and innovations out of the laboratory and into the marketplace.
  • Cubbage Collaborates with Odawa Tribe to Complete Research
    Marissa Cubbage came to Purdue to study the young life stages of fish in the Great Lakes. After arriving in West Lafayette in July 2019, she laid out the plans for her master’s degree research on lake whitefish – Coregonus cluepeaformis - in Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Just two weeks before her sampling was set […]
  • How Do Local Knowledge Systems Respond to Climate Change?
    Dr. Zhao Ma and postdoctoral researchers Ruxandra Popovici and Anna Erwin and a multidisciplinary team studied the effect of climate change on crop farmers in Peru’s Colca Valley to assess the obstacles to adaptation strategies and the best way to address them in the future.
  • Brent's Artwork Makes Impact on FNR Collections Lab
    Rachel Brent has always been interested in nature. She enjoys going hiking and on backpacking trips and seeing things outside. Always curious, growing up she asked a lot of questions, wanting to find out what she was seeing and why it had its specific name. Her mother, Pamela, who works for the Indiana Department of […]
  • Student’s research examines influences on decision making in natural resource management
    "What I love about my work is I get to interact with people from all different lifestyles, livelihoods and cultures,” said Brooke McWherter, a Ph.D. candidate in forestry and natural resources. “As much as I produce knowledge, I’m learning much more.”
  • Unexpected Plants and Animals of Indiana: Ring-necked Pheasant
    In 1962’s “The Annotated Mother Goose,” author William S. Baring-Gould theorized the five golden rings included in “The 12 Days of Christmas” refer not to jewelry, but Ring-necked Pheasants. Whether his theory matches the English Christmas carol’s original meaning or not, pheasants have secured their place in the holiday season for families across rural America.
  • Dunning, Zischke Honored by College of Agriculture
    Dr. Barny Dunning and Dr. Mitch Zischke were honored by the Purdue College of Agriculture for the 2021-22 school year as David C. Pfendler Outstanding Undergraduate Counselor and the Outstanding Teaching Award for Clinical and Continuing Lecturers recipient respectively.
  • Multidisciplinary Cicada Outreach Team Honored by PUCESA
    The interdisciplinary team behind The Brood X Cicada Outreach in the spring and summer of 2021 has been selected as the recipients of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialists' Association (PUCESA) Team Award.