Chris Adair received the Outstanding Ally award during the Purdue LGBTQ Center’s Lavender Graduation on April 23rd. The award was presented based on his ongoing work connecting the center with produce from the Student Farm.
Case IH North America (East Region) included the Purdue Student Farm in their equipment agreement with the Purdue Agricultural Centers this year. Jon Leuck, Director of the Purdue Agricultural Centers, led the negotiations with Case IH. The students and farm manager, Chris Adair, are very excited. “We have always wanted to use a spading machine…Read more about Purdue Student Farm Receives Equipment From Case IH[Read More]
Kayla Grennes, an undergraduate research assistant in the Li Lab, has won the 3rd place in poster presentation in College of Ag in the 2024 Undergraduate Research Spring Conference. Congratulations to Kayla and her mentor Dr. Ryan Patrick in the Li lab!
Rachael Herring, a senior in landscape architecture, received 2nd place in the College of Agriculture for her research poster at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference. The poster, titled “Restoring Ecology to a Natural Community Retreat at Dune Harbor Park Status,” features her community engagement research to support her senior Capstone design project in Muskegon, Michigan….Read more about Rachael Herring Placed in 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference[Read More]
Purdue Agriculture Study Abroad honored Mike Dana and Steve Hallett as Legendary Leaders. This new award was presented to faculty and staff who have made outstanding contributions as leaders of study abroad programs in the College of Agriculture. This award was presented at the Ag Study Abroad Celebration Lunch on Monday, April 29, 2024.
Monday, April 29, was a very exciting day for HLA and the Purdue Student Farm. Two Freight Farm growing containers and a cooler container were delivered and installed at the Purdue Student Farm. What are Freight Farm growing containers? They are a controlled environment agriculture system that gives you complete control of all production elements….Read more about Arrival of Freight Farm Growing Containers[Read More]
Thanks to a generous donor, two freight farms that will be used for controlled environment demonstrations and research will soon hit the road to West Lafayette. They are scheduled to arrive Monday morning, April 28, at the Purdue Student Farm. All are welcome to view their arrival. An official celebration will be scheduled at a…Read more about Sneak Peak: Purdue Freight Farms Are On Their Way![Read More]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on…Read more about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[Read More]
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