This week Vicki Stirm, Karen Sullivan, and Karen Mitchell hosted a session for Grandparents’ University. Forty participants (Purdue Alum grandparents and their grandchildren) had a great time making bud vase arrangements.
Esperanza Zambrano (Widhalm lab) presented at the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Espi is a visiting student from Texas A&M University Kingsville who participated in the 2024 Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) program. She was mentored by PhD student George Meyer.
Ali Jewell, Brittany Weerts, and Nathan Liberty Brittany Weerts and Ali Jewell traveled to Boston last week for a 2-day intensive training for the new Freight Farm container farms at the Purdue Student Farm. While there, they met with Nathan Liberty – Freight Farm’s growing manager and also a former HLA graduate. Nathan and the rest…Read more about Brittany Weerts and Ali Jewell attend Freight Farms Training[Read More]
HLA Professor Lori Hoagland participated in a multidisciplinary workshop on Climate Change Policy and Research in Nicosia, Cyprus. The workshop was jointly hosted by The Arava Institute and The Cyprus Institute. The goal of the workshop was to build teams and develop new projects aimed at addressing food security and water availability.
Dr. Avtar Handa and collaborators has published an original refereed paper in Plant Growth Regulation entitled “A comprehensive endogenous phytohormone metabolite landscape identifies new metabolites associated with tomato fruit”. In this manuscript they report characterization of endogenous levels of 47 compounds including active plant hormones. Several of this compound has been quantified first time during…Read more about Dr. Avtar Handa Co-Published New Paper[Read More]
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