Krisha Nemali presented this week at the Borlaug Mentors Fellowship Group Meeting organized by USDA FAS and NC State CALS. He also visited a new ‘Venlo-style’ greenhouse on top of the newly constructed Plant Sciences Building at NC State during the meeting.
Paul Siciliano & Purdue Arboretum was featured in a Purdue news release on Purdue University receiving the Tree Campus USA Award for the 13th consecutive year: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2022/Q2/purdue-presented-with-tree-campus-usa-award-for-13th-consecutive-yearadline.html
On Thursday, June 2, Lori Hoagland, Karen Mitchell with Nathan Shoaf (Purdue Extension/Urban Agriculture Program) partnered with SWCD’s Urban Soil Health Director, Elli Blaine, to host the “Get the Dirt: Urban Soil Health Conference” for over 100 participants. The conference was followed by a farm tour and dinner at Maple Hill Farm in West Point.
Josué Cerritos is from Tegucigalpa, Honduras and graduated from Zamorano University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science and production. He is interested in weed management and entomology, focusing on horticultural crops. In the near future, he would like to support agriculture development in Honduras. On June 6th, he joined the HLA weed science lab…Read more about Welcome Josué Cerritos, New Visiting Scholar[Read More]
High Plains Journal highlighted the research of Dr. Lori Hoagland and Dr. Philipp Simon of the ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit in Madison, Wisconsin on endophytes that help carrots fight disease and promote growth: https://www.hpj.com/ag_news/fungi-and-bacteria-team-up-with-carrots-for-better-health/article_fae27978-df03-11ec-a0b8-275aaf1a15a4.html.
Congratulations to Thiti Suttiyut (Widhalm Lab) for receiving the Best Paper Award at the Purdue Center for Plant Biology Retreat earlier this week!
On June 2nd, in conjunction with the College of Ag. Office of Multicultural Programming (OMP), C-PASA (Cargill – Purdue Agribusiness and Science Academy), and Indiana’s Juntos 4-H program, Vicki Stirm will be presenting a short program focusing on minorities in Horticulture. The students are Latinx and in the 8th grade. She will introduce them to…Read more about Vicki Stirm to Introduce Latinx 8th Graders to Horticulture[Read More]
