On Saturday, August 13th, Vicki Stirm will be doing an outreach for HLA with high school students from the Center for Leadership Development and Soul Food Project Indy. The Center for Leadership Development is a part of the Indianapolis Youth Development Program. The outreach will involve plant science activities.
Peter Hirst, along with colleagues Amanda Dickson and Mark Russell, are welcoming a delegation from The University of Duhok in Northern Iraq for a 2 week visit to Indiana. This is part of an ongoing project to restore traditional cultural (including agricultural) practices. There are many opportunities to interact with the group including an opening…Read more about Peter Hirst and Colleagues Will Welcome Delegation from the University of Duhok[Read More]
Hello, my name is Gloribel Rosales-Burdin (she, her), I go by Gloribel or Glory, just not Gloria please :D. My strengths are strategic, ideation, learner, developer, and restorative. I am so excited to introduce myself as the new Senior Academic Advisor for Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HORT/LA) at the College of Agriculture. When I am…Read more about Welcome Gloribel Rosales-Burdin![Read More]
Cale Bigelow shared lawn care advice during drought conditions on Indianapolis’s WTHR 13 News on July 21: https://www.wthr.com/article/life/purdue-turf-expert-discusses-lawn-health-in-extreme-heat-grass-drought-watering-fertilizer/531-401930ee-150f-4dd8-bb03-3bdc700fda05. Krishna Nemali was quoted in this article from the Indianapolis Star on vertical farming in Indiana: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/03/growing-up-massive-new-vertical-farm-opening-in-muncie-to-grow-greens/7360426001/
John Orick, Karen Mitchell, and Pam Fisher set up the Purdue Extension Master Gardener Plant Info to Go Booth at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on July 27. Purdue Extension Master Gardener volunteers will staff the booth to answer gardening and lawn care questions and to help promote the program. The booth, located in the Ag/Hort…Read more about Purdue Extension Master Gardener Booth at the Indiana State Fair[Read More]
Kranthi Varala and his graduate student Xiaojin Wang published a paper in collaboration with three other Purdue faculty: Li L, Garsamo M, Yuan J, Wang X, Lam SH, Varala K, Boavida LC, Zhou Y and Liu X (2022) CAND1 is required for pollen viability in Arabidopsis thaliana—a test of the adaptive exchange hypothesis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:866086….Read more about New Paper from Kranthi Varala and Xiaojin Wang[Read More]
Many faculty, staff, and graduate students from HLA attended this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in Chicago earlier this week. The department hosted a table at the Graduate Student Recruitment Event. About 20 current, former, and soon-to-be faculty, staff, and students joined Department Head Linda Prokopy for a fun and lively dinner at…Read more about HLA at ASHS[Read More]
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