Last week, Camila Ulloa and Dr. Ariana Torres attended the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) Conference in Almeria, Spain. Camila Ulloa, a PhD student from the Horticulture Department, along with three graduate students from the Agricultural Economics department, Alejandra Armesto, Ivanna Carrillo, and Owen Zakrzewski, participated in the 2024 IFAMA Student Case Competition.[Read More…]
Karen Sullivan and Jules Janick Horticulture Garden summer student gardeners MJ Smith and Ellie Hicks visited the gardens at Newfields on Friday, June 21. They enjoyed a tour of the gardens, offices and facilities with Assistant Horticulturalist Leah Coughlin (HLA Alumna) and Senior Horticulturalist Katie Booth. Lots of inspiration and hard work goes into acres[Read More…]
This week’s HLA Ambassador’s Summer Internship Spotlight is Isaac Damer (HORT/Plant Science). Hello all! My name is Isaac Damer and I am a rising Junior in Horticulture, concentrating in Plant Science. This summer I have been working as a lab assistant in Dr. Bilenky’s Sustainable Vegetable Cropping Systems Lab! Currently, we have various projects integrating[Read More…]
Vicki Stirm, Kathryn Orvis and Karen Mitchell hosted several youth outreach projects in June. On June 13 and 14, 16 youth from the 4-H Academy – Living Landscapes worked with Dr. Kathryn Orvis and and Vicki Stirm on several horticulture activities: plant propagation of houseplants, a scavenger hunt in the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden, and[Read More…]
Dr. Renu Pandey, from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), visited Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture this month as part of the Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) Program organized by Purdue and SERB of India and hosted by Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kashchandra Raghothama, and Dr. Kranthi Varala. During this visit, Dr. Pandey[Read More…]
The Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab welcomes a new member, Helen Nocito. Helen is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in Plant Biology. She is interested in weed management and ecology, with a focus on horticultural crops. She joined the Meyers lab on June 3rd. Her[Read More…]
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