Departmental News & Events


Join the social committee at MEIGS (Purdue Ag Center) for a cookout, yard games, farm tours, & pumpkin picking! We will also have face-painting & fall crafts for the kids! Please RSVP at your earliest convenience so we can get a headcount. We hope to see you there! RSVP Link


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 about This Week with the HLA Bowling Team[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 about Emmanuel Cooper Receives Yirgou Travel Grant[Read More]


The Hoagland Lab welcomed new visiting scholar, Leilei Zhang, currently a PhD student at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy. During her internship here at Purdue, Leilei will conduct studies investigating the impacts of different types of microplastics on critical plant and microbial processes. Please welcome Leilei to HLA!



Join the social committee at MEIGS (Purdue Ag Center) for a cookout, yard games, farm tours, & pumpkin picking! We will also have face-painting & fall crafts for the kids! Please RSVP at your earliest convenience so we can get a headcount. We hope to see you there! RSVP Link


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 about Update on HLA’s Bowling Team[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 about HLA Fall Seminar: Dr. Senay Simsek[Read More]



The HLA Department participated in the Rainbow Callout on September 6 at the Co-Rec.  The booth handed out carnations and other HLA swag to attendees. A special thank you to the Widhalm Lab, especially George Meyer, Thiti Suttiyut, and Mearaj Shaikh for preparing the flowers and being at the booth. Thanks also goes out to…Read more about HLA at the Rainbow Callout[Read More]


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