Petrus Langenhoven and Ariana Torres were quoted in the ag industry magazine Fastline Big Ag Farm‘s article: “Vertical Farming: More than Lettuce Fields in the Sky.” Read it online: https://www.fastline.com/digital-editions/big-ag-farm/2022/03/
Undergraduate student Ian Kelly (HORT) is currently on study abroad in Dublin, Ireland this semester and will be sending up updates throughout his stay. He sent us this update this week: Classes have been going in full swing and in my plant biotechnology course we got to see a tour of their facilities! They showed…Read more about Undergraduate Student Ian Kelly on Study Abroad This Semester[Read More]
After a lot plan changes and alternations, the LA Career Fair still successfully took place February 4 in our HORT building. We greatly appreciate the firms who took heroic measure to arrive West Lafayette to meet with our students. And we also want to thank those firms who could not be here due to weather…Read more about LA Career Fair Held February 4[Read More]
Thursday, February 10 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Shinsuke Agehara – University of Florida; Assistant Professor of Horticulture.
Congratulations to Michael Mickelbart, Kathryn Orvis, and Joshua Widhalm for receiving 2022 AgSEED grants. Michael Mickelbart’s project is “Improving maize water-use efficiency via stomatal traits.” Kathryn Orvis’s project is “Urban Farming Entrepreneurship Program: Providing minority youth entrepreneurship training to increase employment and food access.” Joshua Widhalm’s project is “Investigating chloroplast thievery in photosynthetic sea slugs…Read more about HLA Faculty Received 2022 AgSEED Grants[Read More]
On January 31, the Purdue Landscape Report officially received the Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award recognizing their interdisciplinary achievements. Led by Kyle Daniel, the team includes HLA faculty and staff members Lori Jolly-Brown, Kirby Kalbaugh, Rosie Lerner, and Aaron Patton as well as members from BPP, FNR and Entomology. Read more about the Purdue Landscape Report’s…Read more about Purdue Landscape Report Officially Received the Purdue Ag TEAM Award[Read More]
Aaron Thompson’s LA students from Fall 2019 will see their class project design come to life this fall. With the help of Purdue Extension and community groups who fundraised with private donations, the citizens of Connersville, Indiana will be able to enjoy the J Long Memorial Second Street Park. This park will be the first…Read more about LA Students’ Class Project Design to Open This Fall[Read More]
Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan are part of a $3.7M project that explores high-tunnel pest management, rural-urban variations in high-tunnel pest management, and creates an online tool for farmers to calculate whether an investment in an integrated pest management strategy or crop diversification will be profitable. This project is led by Elizabeth Barnes in Entomology. …Read more about Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan Part of $3.7M Project[Read More]
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