Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended and participated in the 2023 Sports Field Managers Association (SFMA) annual meeting last week in Salt Lake City, UT. They co-presented a seminar “What’s new in cultural practices for turf disease suppression” and Cale presented two seminars: Turfgrass nutrition 101 and co-presented Practical calculations for the sports field manager[Read More…]
Congratulations to Cale Bigelow for receiving the William Daniel Award on January 19 at the Sports Field Management Association (SFMA) Conference. Named for one of the four founders of SFMA, Dr. William Daniel set the pattern for educator/researcher involvement in SFMA. The partnership between educators and researchers and the sports turf managers who incorporate these advances[Read More…]
Congratulations to Camila Ulloa (MS/Torres’ lab) for receiving the Frederick N. Andrews Environmental Travel Award ($1,500). This travel award was created by the Fellowship Office in the Graduate School for students whose research focuses on improving the global environment. With this grant, Camila hopes to share her research focusing on segmenting salad consumers based on[Read More…]
Several of our graduate students in Turfgrass Science placed in graduate student research poster presentations at the Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting earlier this week. Jada Powlen, 1st place, in the Crop Science Society of America, Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research poster presentation contest, industry section, 2022. Baltimore, MD. Amanda Folck,[Read More…]
A Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED) service learning project wins the 2022 Accelerate Indiana Municipalities (AIM) Placemaking Award. The renovation of J Long Memorial Second Street Park is a unique collaboration involving local government, residents, and civic organizations of Connersville, Indiana, along with Purdue Extension and the Landscape Architecture Program. The park design,[Read More…]
The Purdue 1869 Tree Planting Master Plan, an initiative that involves planting 3738 trees by fiscal year 2025, won an award this fall in the “Environmental Sustainability Category” from the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA). The total number of trees proposed for planting on campus was determined by doubling 1869,[Read More…]