We are excited to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students, whose projects received four awards at the 2026 Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA) Student Design Awards. These recognitions highlight students’ creativity, critical thinking, and commitment to addressing environmental and social challenges through landscape architecture. Merit Award – Design Works:…Read more about Student Projects Recognized at the 2026 INASLA Student Design Award[Read More]
Congratulations to Kinzie Carr and Kate Burris, two students in Purdue University’s Landscape Architecture program, on receiving the 2026 INASLA Student Scholarship Awards! Each student was awarded a $2,000 scholarship in recognition of their academic achievements and potential in the field of landscape architecture. These scholarships reflect INASLA’s continued commitment to supporting the next generation…Read more about Purdue Landscape Architecture Students Receive 2026 INASLA Scholarships[Read More]
John P. Haven, who earned a B.S. in landscape architecture from Purdue’s College of Agriculture in 2001, was among nine alumni honored at the College of Agriculture’s Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award ceremony Oct. 2, 2026, in West Lafayette, Ind. As a principal at LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects in Boston, Haven’s work caught the attention of…Read more about LA Alumnus John Haven Honored with Distinguished Agriculture Alumni[Read More]
Mingyu Zhao, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in ecological science and horticulture and landscape architecture, is this month’s Graduate Ag Research Spotlight. Originally from Xuzhou, China, Zhao earned his master’s degree from the National University of Singapore before arriving at Purdue in 2024 to shift his focus from urban to agricultural landscapes. His research examines the…Read more about Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Mingyu Zhao[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab at the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an invited guest lecture for the Initiative for Civic Leadership in the University of Texas at Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Her talk, “What Can a Park Remember? Memory, Participation, & the Civic Capacity of…Read more about Aggrawal Delivers Invited Guest Lecture at University of Texas at Dallas[Read More]
Liz Maynard, Emily DeaKyne and Ariana Torres co-authored with Lauren Asprooth (Univ. Wisconsin) and Michael O’Donnell (Recovery Ag LLC) recent outreach publications from the Diverse Corn Belt project. Diversifying the Corn Belt: Horticultural Food Crops and Diversifying the Corn Belt: Extended Rotations introduce these crop options by providing an overview of benefits; relation to corn-soybean…Read more about New Diverse Corn Belt Outreach Publications[Read More]
Josh Widhalm presented virtually at the 2026 Sino-American Conference on New Horizons in Plant Science, held jointly by the Botanical Society of America and the Botanical Society of China in Tai’an, Shandong Province, China. His talk was titled “Investigating the Phytotoxic Mechanism of Action of the Allelochemical Juglone.”
On Oct. 2, 14 students and one adult from Purdue Polytechnic High School, accompanied by Zac Brown, assistant director of the Office of Academic Programs, visited the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture as part of a broader campus visit. During their time in HLA, students were introduced to Landscape Architecture by Sean Rotar and…Read more about Purdue Polytechnic High School Students Explore HLA Programs and Gardens[Read More]
Kyle Daniel will be hosting the Indiana Nursery and Landscape Association’s Board of Directors (https://inla.org/officers/) on campus October 13th for their fall executive and board meetings. Following the meeting, Kyle will lead a tour for the board members at the Meigs Horticultural Research Farm.
by Sophia Chiparus Hello Hello Hello! We’ve been busy bees on the farm leading up to fall break, but we have a few fun updates for y’all! Our kale has almost fully recovered from its earlier run in with the cross striped cabbage moth. This means it will be back this week, and available for…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
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