On June 20, members from the HLA Department hosted 46 students and their chaperones from the Felege Hiywot Center. Dr. Kathryn Orvis and her graduate student Elyssa have been holding classes for BIPOC students at the center in Indianapolis for the past seven weeks. During their visit to campus, the students participated in various activities[Read More…]
Members of the Meyers lab published a new research article in Weed Technology, available now ahead-of-print: Tolerance of peppermint (Mentha x piperita) to tiafenacil applied post-harvest by Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana, and Brandi C. Woolam. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2022.78 Thank you to Nathan Deppe and the HGRH crew for their help with this greenhouse-based research[Read More…]
Congratulations to Nathan Deppe who was recently promoted to Lead Laboratory Operations Specialist in recognition of his extremely competent leadership of the Plant Growth Facility during COVID, an almost-catastrophic power outage, and many other challenges. Congratulations to Pam Fisher who was recently promoted to Lead Extension Administrator in recognition of her excellent work supporting the[Read More…]
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture successfully presented the 2022 Indiana Horticulture Conference Webinar Series between Feb. 1 and March 1, 2022. We delivered 18 educational hours to 785 attendees from 19 States and Puerto Rico. We also had several international attendees. The co-chairs Petrus Langenhoven, Stephen Meyers, Lori Jolly-Brown, and Nathan Deppe would like to thank[Read More…]