On Saturday, the department hosted 225 youth participants from across Indiana for the 4-H/FFA State Horticulture Career Development Event. This event was coordinated by Kathryn Orvis and Tony Carrell from the State 4-H office. This event is designed to teach skills necessary in the horticulture and landscape industry. They identified ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, evaluated[Read More…]
Our team Split Happens played against English-Owl Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 5 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We lost all 8 points this week, placing us back in 6th place. In the Women’s Category, Alexandra Jewell placed 3rd with scratch game scoring a 189, placed 4thwith scratch series[Read More…]
Our team Split Happens played against The Madames Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 4 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won all three sets and high game, resulting in all 8 points. This placed our team in 2nd for the week. In the Men’s Category, Chris Adair placed 4th[Read More…]
Emmanuel Cooper, M.S. student in the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab, was selected as a 2022 recipient of the Dr. Dagnatchew Yirgou Endowment Travel Award from the Purdue University College of Agriculture. The Dr. Dagnatchew Yirgou Endowment was established in September 2002 with gifts by Mezgebou Amlak and others in memory of Dr. Yirgou to[Read More…]
Our team Split Happens played against Bowling Problem Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 3 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won one of three sets and high individual game, resulting in a tie with 4 points. This placed our team in 6th for the week. In the Men’s category,[Read More…]
Dr. Senay Simsek, Department Head and Professor; Department of Food Sciences, Purdue University “Overview of the Food Science Department at Purdue” Thursday September 22, at 3:30pm, HORT 117 or join via Zoom. Abstract: Imagine a world. . .Where all of the earth’s raw agricultural products are utilized for nourishing every human being, imagine turning those[Read More…]