Cristian Salinas joined the Ayllu Agtech Bootcamp at FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago (Chile). As part of a FAO bootcamp to train rural youth professionals in Ag innovation and sustainability for Latin America, Cristian Salinas, PhD student at Hoagland’s Lab, was one of the 15 selected over almost 10.000 applicants to[Read More…]
Dr. Cary Mitchell will be in Arlington, Virginia November 13-16 to serve on a Human Systems grant proposal peer-review panel for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC strives to identify and develop novel system-of-systems architectures that can enable entirely new space missions or greatly enhance existing ones, with potential ground-based spinoff or Earth[Read More…]
Henrique Feiler, Kathleen Zapf, and Lily Berry attended the 2023 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri October 29-November 1. They attended several lectures on topics related to the soil microbiome and heavy metal bioavailability, phenotyping technologies, and crop science updates. Henrique and Kathleen presented posters on their research. The group also visited the[Read More…]
Paul Siciliano, Director of the Purdue Arboretum, and Purdue Arboretum Student Interns, Madeline Budan, Kayla Edgerly, and Josh Bailey participated in The Fall into Nature Event on Friday, October 27, as part of Green Week/Sustainability Week. This event was hosted by the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging committee.[Read More…]