On October 4, the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) paid tribute to the remarkable contributions of Dr. Cary Mitchell with a symposium titled “Celebrating the Research Legacy of Dr. Cary Mitchell.” The event gathered an esteemed group of speakers, many of whom have been directly influenced by Dr. Mitchell’s pioneering work. The symposium[Read More…]
Celina Gómez, Cary Mitchell, Lian Durón, Sofia Gómez, Michael Fidler, and Sungeun Lim presented at the North Central Extension & Research Activity–101 (NCERA-101) meeting in Ames, Iowa. Drs. Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell gave an oral presentation highlighting their group’s research. Lian Durón, Sofia Gómez, Michael Fidler, and Sungeun Lim received travel awards to present[Read More…]
Two open-access articles involving Mitchell lab participation in the NASA-sponsored ILSRA project directed by former Purdue HLA post doc Gioia Massa, PI, have just become available online: An article entitled “Pick-and-eat space crop production flight testing on the International Space Station” appears in the Journal of Plant interactions, and can be linked to via https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2023.2292220[Read More…]
Ashley Adair explained the importance of having a social media or website presence for small farms in an article published in FarmProgress: How to tell your farm story using social media The LED lighting research of Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani and Dr. Cary Mitchell was published in AgriView: New strategies for Vertical Farming More Productive, less[Read More…]