On Friday, April 28th, Chris Adair and Vicki Stirm presented to youth from the World Food Prize Youth Institute. There were 3 groups totaling 28 students plus adults. The topic was food security. Chris spoke about the student farm and how they reach out to the community via the CSA program and working with the…Read more about Chris Adair and Vicki Stirm Presented to Youth from the World Food Prize Youth Institute[Read More]
Student members of the Purdue Horticulture Society will be travelling to Cincinnati on April 29th and 30th to visit Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens and Krohn Conservatory. The Director of the botanical gardens, Steve Foltz, will be leading the tour of the gardens.
Camila Ulloa (Torres Lab) received a $400 travel grant from Purdue’s Institute for a Sustainable Future. The grant is for her presentation, “Characterizing the U.S. Salad Mixes Market Environmental Footprint Claims,” at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association meeting in June 2023. ISF promotes collaborative research that advances understanding of persistent global sustainability challenges….Read more about Camila Ulloa Received Travel Grant[Read More]
Research in the Hirst lab by former students has recently been published: “Fruit Growth and Development in Apple: A Molecular, Genomic and Epigenetics Perspective”, by Khalil Jahed and Peter Hirst, published in “Frontiers in Plant Science-Functional and Applied Plant Genomics”. “Flowering in ‘Honeycrisp’ Apple Shows That Spurs Are Semiautonomous Organs” by Mokhles Elsysy and Peter…Read more about Recently Published Research from Former Hirst Lab Students[Read More]
Celia Corado is a new visiting scholar in the Meyers’ weed science lab. She was born and raised in Honduras, where she obtained her bachelor’s in Agronomy from the National University of Agriculture UNAG. Her main interest is in Horticulture production. Her short-term goal is to learn everything related to weed management as well as…Read more about Welcome Celia Corado![Read More]
Peter Hirst has just published a paper in the Journal of the American Society for Horticuture Science with former PhD student Mokhles Elsysy. Flowering in ‘Honeycrisp’ apple shows that spurs are semi-autonomous organs. M.A. Elsysy and P.M. Hirst
