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…]
Dr. Cary Mitchell will be in Arlington, Virginia November 13-16 to serve on a Human Systems grant proposal peer-review panel for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC strives to identify and develop novel system-of-systems architectures that can enable entirely new space missions or greatly enhance existing ones, with potential ground-based spinoff or Earth[Read More…]
Former HLA grad students Asmaa Morsi, Mokhles Elsysy, and Dr. Cary Mitchell, along with NASA and aerospace industry colleagues, are publishing an article in the Journal of Life Sciences in Space Research related to cut-and-come-again harvest of mizuna mustard growing in the Veggie plant-growth units onboard the International Space Station, to supplement astronaut diets and[Read More…]
This week we celebrated eight of our faculty and staff’s milestone years of service at Purdue: a total of 210 years of experience between them. Congratulations to: Cary Mitchell (50 years) Mike Dana (40 years) Elizabeth Maynard (30 years) Peter Hirst (25 years) John Orick (25 years) Cale Bigelow (20 years) Lora White (10 years)[Read More…]
The Purdue Exponent wrote a nice article about the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden this week. The article can be read online at: A little haven: Hort garden provides education and relaxation. NASA’s Veg-05 experiment, in which Dr. Cary Mitchell is a co-collaborator, has sent the first tomato seeds to be grown in the Space Station[Read More…]