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]
Purdue University’s Center for Community and Environmental Design (CCED) is inviting community partners to collaborate with senior Landscape Architecture students for the 2026–27 academic year. Through the Student Design Support program, students apply fresh, data-driven design perspectives to real-world challenges facing communities across Indiana and beyond. Each year, approximately 25 dedicated students work with local…Read more about Purdue CCED Seeks Community Partners for 2026–27 Student Design Projects[Read More]
Members of the HLA’s Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab recently published three peer-reviewed research articles. Greenhouse evaluation of napropamide and pendimethalin for suppression of strawberry daughter plant rooting and runner management implications. Jeanine Arana, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Bryan Young, and Nathan Boyd. Available ahead-of-print in Weed Technology. This research is one of former HLA…Read more about Weed Science Lab publishes three articles.[Read More]
Look out London here we come! The finals days of our trip were spent in London. We started with a stop at Wisley Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Gardens which were in the writer’s opinion really amazing. It was very rainy but we all wandered about anyway. We did a couple days of walking around London –…Read more about London Calling: A Memorable Finish to “In the English Landscape” Study Abroad[Read More]
On June 10 – 12, the HLA department hosted 16 high school students for the 4-H Academy. They participated in several activities: Landscape Architecture, student farm tour, Ross-Ade tour, baseball stadium tour, turf center activities, Exploring Plant Natural Product Chemistry, extraction of pigments from leaves, and a tour of the HLA greenhouses. These activities were…Read more about HLA Hosts 4-H Academy “Living Landscapes”[Read More]
On May 29, Petrus Langenhoven, Clinical Assistant Professor and Vegetable Extension Specialist in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, visited the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa — one of the most advanced agrivoltaics research sites in the Midwest. Langenhoven met with Dr. Ajay Nair, Head of the ISU…Read more about Purdue Vegetable Specialist Visits Iowa State University Agrivoltaics Research Site[Read More]
Celina Gómez recently traveled to Capitol Hill as part of her American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Leadership Program, representing the organization in meetings with staff members from the offices of Representative Jim Baird, Senator Jim Banks, Senator Todd Young, and Representative Mark Messmer. During her visit, Gómez advocated for continued federal support of horticultural…Read more about Celina Gómez Advocates for Horticultural Research on Capitol Hill[Read More]
Members of the Hoagland Lab travelled to Wahington DC for the first ASM: Environment and Applied Microbiology Meeting. Shubham Dubey presented a poster and rapid fire presentation entitled: From Root Metabolites to SynComs: Microbiome-Based Strategies for Tomato Salinity Stress. Elisa Garcia presented a poster called: Did domestication disrupt root-to-shoot microbiome signalling in tomato? Comparing defense…Read more about Hoagland Lab Presented at ASM[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]
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