The American Society for Horticultural Sciences (ASHS) meeting in Orlando was a great success with exciting presentations made by a large contingent of Purdue faculty, graduate students and staff. It was gratifying to see the quality of scholarly activity presented by our department. Congratulations are in order for members of the department who were recognized[Read More…]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University student team has won a national contest for designing a “Biowall” of living plants integrated into a building’s heating and ventilation system. The system could improve indoor air quality and reduce energy use by decreasing the need for outdoor ventilation air. The team last October was selected by[Read More…]
Graduate students were honored Wednesday (April 30) at the 16th Annual Celebration of Graduate Teaching Excellence, hosted by the Office of the Provost, Teaching Academy, Graduate School and the Center for Instructional Excellence. The Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award is the highest honor Purdue gives to a graduate student. Selected students must show excellence[Read More…]
Hongji Gui was recently honored as a recipient of the Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award during a celebration hosted by the Provost and the Dean of the Graduate School. Hongi was our department’s nominee, and she has been an outstandingly effective teaching assistant in HORT 101 (Fundamentals of Horticulture). She was nominated by her professors,[Read More…]
Purdue Master Gardeners in Tippecanoe County along with Jeff Phillips, Extension Educator, ANR, Tippecanoe County, have developed demonstration gardens and community gardens at the Purdue Extension Office in Lafayette as well as at many other locations throughout the Lafayette/West Lafayette area. Purdue Master Gardener volunteers in partnership with Purdue Extension use these demonstration gardens to[Read More…]
Amy Jones has been a Purdue Boilermaker for the last seven years and has no imminent plans to alter her course. In fact, she began her new position of Plant Sciences Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator with the College of Agriculture in June 2013 and is housed in the Horticulture Building. Jones, an alumna who graduated[Read More…]
The ASHS Growth Chambers and Controlled Environments Working Group (CEWG) is pleased to announce the winners of its first competition of the best student oral presentations related to controlled environment research at the ASHS Annual Conference. The competition was held during at the American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Conference, July 22 – 25 2013 in[Read More…]
Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Chris Currey “We’re enhancing the efficiency of propagation. That’s the compelling part for me – trying to contribute a more efficient system.” -Chris Currey THE STUDENT In the summer between his high school graduation and enrollment at the University of Minnesota, Chris Currey worked at a public garden along the[Read More…]
Two projects are underway in the Midwest to test and expand the use of mechanical grape vine pruning. One project in Wisconsin will evaluate mechanical rough pruning for cold climate hybrids. Another research project at Purdue University is looking at cutting edge technology to perform finer pruning using robotics. During 2012, David Danzinger of Danzinger[Read More…]
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