Indiana Green Expo will be held January 17-19, 2024 at the Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis. Many HLA members will be presenting, including Naba Amgain, Cale Bigelow, Kyle Daniel, Maria Camila Ulloa Gomez, Brandon McNally, Aaron Patton, Jada Powlen, Vera Vukovic, and Jean Pierre Zavala. More information on the Indiana Green Expo can be found at[Read More…]
HLA graduate students Stephen Campbell (Bigelow Lab), Antonio Verzotto (Bigelow Lab), ****and Vera Vukovic (Patton Lab), presented at the annual Crop Science Society of America as a part of last week’s 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting in St. Louis last week. Stephen Campbell presented a poster, “Assessing interest and needs of Indiana High[Read More…]
Congratulations to five of HLA’s graduate students for successfully defended their theses, completed their degrees, and will graduate in May! We wish them the best of luck in all of their future endeavors! Yuyao Kong, PhD under Dr. Krishna Nemali Jada Powlen, PhD under Dr. Cale Bigelow Thiti Suttiyut, PhD under Dr. Josh[Read More…]
Four HLA members attended and presented research at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia January 30 to February 2: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Cultivars. Emmanuel Cooper. Poster. Ethofumesate Resistant Annual Bluegrass in Oregon Grass Seed Production Systems. Vera Vukovic. Poster. Using Black Soldier[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: One of our HLA Presenters was inadvertently missing from the previous version of this story. Antonio Verzotto will also present at the Indiana Green Expo. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Fourteen of HLA’s Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students will speak at the Indiana Green Expo, January 30 – February 1 at the Indiana[Read More…]
Several of our graduate students in Turfgrass Science placed in graduate student research poster presentations at the Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting earlier this week. Jada Powlen, 1st place, in the Crop Science Society of America, Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research poster presentation contest, industry section, 2022. Baltimore, MD. Amanda Folck,[Read More…]
Several HLA grad students are involved in the planning of the 2022 Graduate Student Plant Science Symposium, including George Meyer, Vera Vukovic, Cristian Salinas, Emerson Luna, Emmanuel Cooper, Sofia Gomez, Xiaojing Wang, Frederick Mildenhall, Scott Benzinger, and Jeanine Arana. Students from other departments in the College of Ag include Rebecca Leuschen-Kohl, Nathan Smith, Juan Diego[Read More…]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide[Read More…]
Thanks to the excellent weather, over 400 attendees came out to the Daniel Turf Center for the 2022 Turf and Landscape Field Day, presented by the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation. HLA faculty and staff who helped put on this program included Aaron Patton, Kyle Daniel, Ashley Breed, Cale Bigelow, Jada Powlen, Glenn Hardebeck, Ben Royal,[Read More…]