On March 4, Sarah Leaskey (BSLA, 2007) of Olin in Philadelphia, PA, was on campus to receive the 2022 Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award. Some of her works includes the University of California’s Memorial Stadium in Berkley, California as well as redesign for Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. She also spoke with our LA students about…Read more about Sarah Leaskey (BSLA, ’07) Receives the 2022 Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award[Read More]
Ariana Torres attended the S1087 multi-state meeting in Miami, FL. The multistate group titled Sustainable Practices, Economic Contributions, Consumer Behavior, and Labor Management in the U.S. Environmental Horticulture Industry met to discuss project’s outcomes and new data collection efforts. We also visited ornamental growers in Florida adopting automated machinery and growing specialty ornamentals.
Thursday, March 3 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Tracie Matsumoto – USDA Tropical Research Center Hawaii.
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) and the College of Agriculture (CoA) are vital partners of the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC). Meredith Cobb (CoA research administration specialist), Petrus Langenhoven, Lori Hoagland, Stephen Meyers (HLA), and Elizabeth Long (ENT) support Midwest mint grower efforts with research projects on peppermint and…Read more about 2022 Midwest Mint Growers Conference[Read More]
Stephen Meyers will present a mini-symposium and poster at the 10th International IPM Symposium in Denver, Colorado February 28 to March 3: Integrated Weed Management in Pumpkins- Opportunities and Challenges (Part of the mini-symposium: Minimizing Disease and Weed Impacts on Pumpkin and Squash). Stephen Meyers. Peppermint response to mesotrione and S-metolachlor applied post-harvest (poster). Stephen…Read more about Meyers to Present Weed Science Research at the 10th International IPM Symposium Next Week[Read More]
Members of Stephen Meyers’ HLA Specialty Crops Weed Science Lab authored and co-authored a total of five presentations given at the 2022 joint virtual meeting of the Weed Science Society of American and Canadian Weed Science Society (February 22-24). Jeanine Arana won second place in the MS level three-minute thesis (3MT) competition for her presentation…Read more about Presentations Made at the 2022 WSSA/CWSS Annual Meeting[Read More]
Emerson Alejandro Luna Espinoza is joining the Wenjing Guan lab at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center in Vincennes. He is here from February 23, 2022 through August 22, 2022.
Reham MOHAMED, a senior researcher at the Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre in Egypt and an affiliate at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is visiting HLA for three months to work with Dr. Krishna Nemali on research related to “Developing Affordable Hydroponics/ Aeroponics Systems for Egypt” funded by USDA/FAS. The purpose of…Read more about Welcome Reham Mohamed![Read More]
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