Shivika Aggrawal and Dr. Ana Hummes, members of Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), presented two decision-support tools for climate-resilient agriculture during a webinar hosted by the North Central Climate Collaborative (NC3) on October 26, 2026. The tools were developed through the Integrated Midwest Partnerships for Actionable Climate…Read more about CCED Team Showcases Decision-Support Tools for Climate-Resilient Midwest Agriculture[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an oral presentation “Midwest farms as social-ecological memory landscapes: Oral histories of extreme weather adaptation in the U.S. Midwest” at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association (OHA), held in Portland, Oregon, from October 14-17, 2026….Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Presented Research at Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab at the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an invited guest lecture for the Initiative for Civic Leadership in the University of Texas at Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Her talk, “What Can a Park Remember? Memory, Participation, & the Civic Capacity of…Read more about Aggrawal Delivers Invited Guest Lecture at University of Texas at Dallas[Read More]
HLA Ph.D. candidate Shivika Aggrawal, advised by Dr. Aaron Thompson in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), has been elected Student Representative-Elect to the Council of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR). IASNR is an international professional association dedicated to the social science analysis of natural resource and environmental management….Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Earns International Leadership Role with IASNR[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an oral presentation titled “Beyond Recall: Why Some Extreme-Weather Memories Shape Action and Others Don’t?” at the 40th annual meeting of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, the IASNR Conference. The meeting was hosted by the…Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Presents Research at International Natural Resources Conference[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an oral presentation titled “How to Study Social–Ecological Memory in Agroecosystems: Methodological Insights from Empirical Research” at the 2026 annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food…Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Shares Research at AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal (advised by Dr. Aaron Thompson) and Miné van der Berg (advised by Dr. Lori Hoagland) both successfully passed their preliminary exams in May. Both students are part of the Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ESE) interdisciplinary graduate program while pursuing their degrees in HLA. Congratulations to Shivika and Miné on this significant achievement—we look…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Passes Prelims[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, a Ph.D. student in the Center for Community & Environmental Design – Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab, has been sharing the lab’s research on social-ecological memory in agriculture at several forums. In August 2025, she presented the research at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Baltimore, engaging ecologists from across disciplines. In…Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Presents Research on Social-Ecological Memory in Midwest Agriculture[Read More]
After the Small Farm Field Day last week the IMPACT^2 Team met with a group of small farmers and Extension educators to pilot two serious games. These games help farmers and educators think through the impacts of climate change on agriculture and what management strategies they can use to help mitigate those impacts. HLA folks…Read more about IMPACT^2 Team Piloted Games Highlighting Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture[Read More]
Last week, Dr. Prokopy attended the MANNRS (Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources and Related Sciences) Purdue Chapter annual banquet to celebrate the accomplishments of the Chapter (first place in the nation!) and celebrate our student members – Otto Hoehl (Turf Management and Science), Spencer Logan (Pre Landscape Architecture), Shivika Aggrawal (grad student). Shivika, co-advised by…Read more about HLA Students at MANNRS Banquet[Read More]