HLA was delighted to celebrate our own alumna last week at the Distinguished Agriculture Alumni awards ceremony. Stacy Haviland is a 2002 graduate of our Landscape Architecture program who has had an outsized influence on the Landscape Architecture profession here in Indiana through her work first with Earth Source, Inc. and now with the City[Read More…]
Our team Good Thyme Gang played against Eamus Catuli Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 25 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 4 out of the 8 points, keeping our team in 3rd place and inches away from 1st with a two way tie! In the Women’s category: Alexandra[Read More…]
For the 15th year running, Purdue University has earned the Tree Campus USA designation within higher education. Campus Arborist Peter Vaughn, Crew Chief Jason Kilgour with the support of the entire Grounds Department, led the initiative in completing the criteria for the designation and the continued work of the Campus Tree Care Plan which fosters healthy[Read More…]
Congratulations to the entire HLA team for a very positive external review! We are so grateful to our external reviewers, Marvin Pritts, Roch Gaussoin, Mengmeng Gu, Erik Runkle, and Michelle Schroeder-Moreno for spending so much time with us getting to learn all about the amazing work everyone in HLA is doing across our three mission[Read More…]
Our team Good Thyme Gang played against Spoilermakers II Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 24 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 4 out of 8 points, keeping our team in 3rd place. In the Team Category: Good Thyme Gang placed 2nd in team scratch game scoring a 704,[Read More…]
Petrus Langenhoven attended the Indiana Small Farms Conference on February 29 and March 1. He presented a talk titled High Tunnel Sweet Pepper Variety Selection Update. He also presented two posters with Nathan Shoaf titled Impact of Soil Fertility Amendments and Cover Cropping on Soil Health and Building Soil Health: Sustainable Management Approaches to Overcome[Read More…]
Together with Holly Wang (Agricultural Economics), Peter Hirst led the International Research Academy’s visit to Washington DC last week. Members of the Academy are Bernhard Dalheimer (Agricultural Economics), Jeneen Fields (Botany and Plant Pathology), Stephen Meyers (Horticulture and Landscape Architecture) and Diane Wang (Agronomy). The group visited NSF, FAO, USDA-FAS, USDA-NIFA, FFAR, USAID and Lewis-Burke.[Read More…]
We are very pleased to announce Dr. Petrus Langenhoven’s promotion from staff Extension specialist to Assistant Clinical Professor. In his new role, Dr. Langenhoven will continue to serve as the Director of the Purdue Student Farm and will continue his Extension, research and teaching programs primarily related to production of vegetable crops in indoor and[Read More…]
Dr. Ryan Patrick, Research Associate Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University Thursday February 29th, at 3:30pm HORT 117 or Zoom “What makes a plant: investigating the basis of plant traits using functional genomics approaches” Abstract: Genetic information, including coding and regulatory DNA sequences, is organized at the level of chromatin by epigenetic modifications which govern[Read More…]
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