A great time at the Student Farm Banquet last Thursday. Eighty students in attendance from department, college, and beyond. Student-created recipes. Student-prepared food. Huge thanks to chef Darcy Smink for leadership and kitchen space. Kudos to Natalia Rodriguez and the Purdue Student Farm Organization for planning and running a great evening!
Last Friday, HLA faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students came together for food and fun at Meigs Farm. The beautiful fall weather was perfect for a farm tour, cornhole, crafts and games for kids, grilled burgers and hotdogs, side dishes, an apple dessert competition, and free pumpkins, apples, and sweet potatoes to take home. Thank…Read more about HLA Holds Their Departmental Fall Gathering[Read More]
3 The HORT 318 class visited Meigs on Wednesday. Lab concentrated on learning how to prune grape vines (with Miranda Purcell), peaches and apples (with Peter Hirst). Kyle Daniel showed them the effect of container type on root development. The students also harvested Cruciferous crops that were planted in September. Petrus Langenhoven showed them you…Read more about HORT 318 Learns to Prune Grapes Vines, Apple and Peach Trees[Read More]
Wanting Zhang (Master student in Huang’s lab), Yahan You (undergraduate LA student), and Yiwei Huang‘s landscape performance case study was featured in Landscape Architecture Foundation’s news. The link to the article can be found here: https://www.lafoundation.org/news/2022/10/csi-suining-south-riverfront-park
Camila Ulloa Gómez (MS Student) attended the 2022 National Agricultural Marketing Summit in Pensacola, Florida (October 22-25, 2022). I had the opportunity to participate in the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) session, Consumer Attitudes toward Food Choice, by presenting the paper “Characterization of the U.S. Mixed Salad Market: Environmental Attributes” by M.S. student Camila Ulloa,…Read more about Camila Ulloa Gómez Attended 2022 National Agricultural Marketing Summit[Read More]
Dr. Avtar Handa has received a $100,000 grant from the Agricultural Research Service for his research on the Identification and regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops. Title: Identification and Regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops PI: Avtar Handa Project Period: 08/30/2022…Read more about Dr. Avtar Handa Receives Grant[Read More]
The Women of the Green Industry will be hosting Carrie Tauscher, who will present: ‘Commentary about being a woman in the green industry, successes, failures and complaining the whole time’. Following Carrie’s presentation a meeting will be held to discuss a winter education event at the Indiana Green Expo. Please visit https://www.purduelandscapereport.org/article/join-women-of-the-green-industry/ for more information.
Our team Split Happens played against Here 4 The Beer Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 9 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 6 out of 8 points, keeping our team in 3rd place for the third week in a row. In the Women’s Category, Alexandra Jewell placed 1st…Read more about HLA Bowling Team This Week[Read More]
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