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 about HLA’s Years of Service Celebration[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 about HLA In the Media[Read More]
July 14 was a day of celebration for Dr. Cary Mitchell’s 50 years with our department. Current and retired Purdue HLA faculty, staff, students, and guests joined together to honor Dr. Mitchell’s work in controlled environment agriculture, outer space agriculture, and as an advocate for women in ag. Retired HLA Professor Dr. Jules Janick read…Read more about Celebrating Cary Mitchell’s 50 Years with HLA[Read More]
Three separate manuscripts related to the History of Controlled Environment Horticulture (Ancient Origins, Greenhouses, and Indoor Farming Related Technologies) were published by Drs. Jules Janick, Krishna Nemali, and Cary Mitchell. These manuscripts and accessible at the following link: https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/57/2/hortsci.57.issue-2.xml
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