Horticulture


HLA Professor and Co-Director of the Arequipa Nexus Institute, Dr. Lori Hoagland, traveled to Peru with Drs. Karen Plaut (Executive Vice President for Research), Juan Diego Velazquez (Director of Latin American Programs), Daniel Leon-Salas (Associate Prof. in the Polytechnic Institute and Nexus Co-Director), and Rosa Cossio (Nexus Program Manager). The team started in Lima where…Read more about Dr. Lori Hoagland, Dr. Ada Martinez, and Henrique Feiler Travel to Peru[Read More]


Shannon Stirling (PhD student, Dudareva lab) won 1st place in the graduate student oral presentation category at the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Midwest regional meeting. George Meyer (PhD student, Widhalm lab), alongside PULSe rotation student Amanda Navodani, won 3rd place in the graduate student poster presentation category. The ASPB Midwest meeting was hosted by the…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Placed at ASPB Midwest Regional Meeting[Read More]






Jeanine Arana (Ph.D., Meyer’s Lab) is one of ten finalists in Purdue’s 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) Competition. The 3MT Competition is a research communication competition that develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills while developing the skills to explain their research to an intelligent, non-specialist audience in three minutes using only one slide. Jeanine is…Read more about Jeanine Arana Finalist in 3MT Competition[Read More]


Emmanuel Cooper and Jeanine Arana from the Meyers’ lab participated in the 11th Annual ABE Graduate Industry Research Symposium: “Advancing technology: From models to molecules, machines and more”. Emmanuel obtained 3rd place for his 3MT oral presentation and Jeanine obtained 2nd place for her oral presentation! Congratulations!




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