Department Head, Linda Prokopy, participated in an external review of the University of Connecticut Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture. Fun fact: the review team consisted of Heads of all the HLA departments located at land grant universities – Purdue, Oklahoma State (Justin Moss), and Colorado State (Mengmeng Gu).
Back to your regularly scheduled programming folks! Things have been quiet this week, in part because we got very on top of things for last week’s events (and needed a little bit of recouperation time), partially because Chris finally fell victim to the bug that’s been going around the Horticulture department. He had to be banished from…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
On Friday, October 18, we held a ribbon-cutting for the Overbeck Controlled Agriculture Facility located at the Purdue Student Farm. Members of the Overbeck Family were present to cut the ribbon cleverly made to look like lettuce! It was a lovely event and attendees got to see first-hand how well Brittany Weerts has our Freight…Read more about HLA Celebrates New Overbeck Controlled Agriculture Facility with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony[Read More]
Cale Bigelow, Steven Hallett, Yiwei Huang & Kathryn Orvis Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University Thursday October 24th, at 3:30pm HORT 117 or via Zoom. “The Art of Teaching: Perspectives from HLA Educators.” Join four experienced and award-winning HLA instructors as they share the approaches that have made their teaching both impactful and rewarding. Drawing…Read more about 2024 HLA Fall Seminar – Cale Bigelow, Steven Hallett, Yiwei Huang & Kathryn Orvis [Read More]
Our team Good Thyme Gang played against Golden Girls Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 8 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We 2 out of 8 points, holding our team in 2nd place. In the Team Category: Good Thyme Gang placed 3rd with team scratch series scoring a 1779. In the Women’s Category: Alexandra Jewell placed 1st with scratch game scoring…Read more about HLA Bowling Team[Read More]
HLA grad students and friends visited the Corn Maze at Exploration Acres last week.
A research article entitled “Effect of in-row spacing on weed suppression and yield of ‘Covington’ and ‘Monaco’ sweetpotato” was published in Weed Technology on October 16, 2024. The research was conducted as part of the Master’s thesis of Emmanual Cooper, funded by the USDA-NIFA-OREI grant program. Co-authors include Stephen Meyers and Ashley Adair from HLA,…Read more about Weed Science Lab Publishes New Sweetpotato Research[Read More]
Faith Hartman (Senior/SFS) was one of three College of Ag students featured by Purdue for National Farmers Day: Celebrating the future of farming.
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