Ali Jewell, Brittany Weerts, and Nathan Liberty Brittany Weerts and Ali Jewell traveled to Boston last week for a 2-day intensive training for the new Freight Farm container farms at the Purdue Student Farm. While there, they met with Nathan Liberty – Freight Farm’s growing manager and also a former HLA graduate. Nathan and the rest[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa and collaborators has published an original refereed paper in Plant Growth Regulation entitled “A comprehensive endogenous phytohormone metabolite landscape identifies new metabolites associated with tomato fruit”. In this manuscript they report characterization of endogenous levels of 47 compounds including active plant hormones. Several of this compound has been quantified first time during[Read More…]
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…]