This week the HORT 318 class visited Wea Creek Orchard in Lafayette. Thanks to Perry Kirkham for hosting the group.
Congratulations to the Purdue students and recent graduates who received awards at the Indiana Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects Student and Professional Awards Ceremony, held on September 30th. 2022 Student Awards Planning & Analysis Shangzhe Cai: Honor Award – Grassy Creek Corridor Plan Garrett Vinyard: Merit Award – Indianapolis Parks Expansion Jacob Battista: Merit…Read more about 2022 INASLA Student Award Winners[Read More]
On Saturday, the department hosted 225 youth participants from across Indiana for the 4-H/FFA State Horticulture Career Development Event. This event was coordinated by Kathryn Orvis and Tony Carrell from the State 4-H office. This event is designed to teach skills necessary in the horticulture and landscape industry. They identified ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, evaluated…Read more about 4-H/FFA State Horticulture Career Development Event[Read More]
Dr. Amolkumar Solanke and Dr. Nimmy Manduparambil Subramanian, two Senior Research Scientist from National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR),PUsa Campus, New Delhi, will be visiting Professor Avtar Handa Laboratory for two weeks (October 11 to October 24, 2022). The purpose of their visit is to discuss and learn recent…Read more about Handa Lab Hosts Two Visiting Senior Research Scientists[Read More]
WRTV-6 News in Indianapolis interviewed Stephen Meyers about what to expect with this year’s pumpkin harvest. The video can be viewed here: Consumers should be aware of smaller, more expensive pumpkins this year. He was also interviewed by WLFI-18 News in Lafayette earlier this week. This interview will air on Monday, October 10.
Thiti Suttiyut, Scott Benzinger, Rachel McCoy, and Josh Widhalm published a chapter in Methods in Enzymology titled “Strategies to study the metabolic origins of specialized plant metabolites: The specialized 1, 4-naphthoquinones.”
Our team Split Happens played against The Purdudes Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 6 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 6 of 8 points, placing our team in 5th for the week. In the Women’s Category, Ashley Adair placed 7th with handicap game scoring a 238 and placed…Read more about HLA Bowling Team This Week[Read More]
Several HLA grad students are involved in the planning of the 2022 Graduate Student Plant Science Symposium, including George Meyer, Vera Vukovic, Cristian Salinas, Emerson Luna, Emmanuel Cooper, Sofia Gomez, Xiaojing Wang, Frederick Mildenhall, Scott Benzinger, and Jeanine Arana. Students from other departments in the College of Ag include Rebecca Leuschen-Kohl, Nathan Smith, Juan Diego…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Involved in Planning Graduate Student Plant Science Symposium[Read More]
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