LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – Purdue students are pitching ideas to local business owners that could tweak the layout of Downtown Lafayette. Seventeen students were at MatchBOX Coworking Studio Thursday to show off their parklets designs to a half dozen business. Parklets are miniature parks about the size of a few parking spaces. Each parklet…Read more about Purdue Landscape Architecture Students pitch parklets designs to local downtown business owners.[Read More]
Saturday April 18th, 2015 External Link: Purdue LA 50th Anniversary
Purdue University’s student farm is bringing fresh fruits and vegetables even closer to campus. Launched in 2011, the 5-acre farm sells the student-grown food at farmers markets and to local businesses and dining halls. But a new program hopes to further connect the community to what it eats. In June, the farm will launch a…Read more about Purdue farm share connects community with food[Read More]
On April 8th, Dr. Aaron Patton was awarded the 2015 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Faculty Mentor Award. The award was graduate student nominated and selected by the PGSG. External Link:
Prof. Sean Rotar, an assistant professor, has been appointed chair of the committee on education of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The ASLA committee advises the society on education policy, growth and maintenance of landscape architecture programs and monitors education and employment trends. Rotar’s two-year term will end in November 2016. Rotar was the…Read more about Prof. Sean Rotar, an assistant professor, has been appointed chair of the committee on education of the American Society of Landscape Architects[Read More]
By Tanya G. Brown Nathan Vanderman (A’09) was part of the TBG team that designed this play for a tunnel top park in Fort Lauderdale that would unite the restaurant and financial districts while vastly improving an urban eyesore. As a landscape architect in South Florida, Nathan Vandeman (A’09) uses his creativity and analytical focus…Read more about Creating the Spaces Between: Alumni and students find purpose in social and environmentally friendly design.[Read More]
Heejin Yoo, First Place award for her Outstanding Oral Presentation at the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Midwestern Section Annual Meeting at Ohio State University for her talk: “An alternative pathway contributes to phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants via a cytosolic tyrosine:phenylpyruvate aminotransferase.” Also received 2014 Student Publication of the Year Award from the Purdue…Read more about Graduate Student, Heejin Yoo, Receives First Place Award at ASPB Midwestern Section Annual Meeting[Read More]
Beer probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about farming. But there’s a particular crop, crucial to the brewing process, that has recently increased in demand and piqued the interest of Indiana farmers. Hops is a plant that hasn’t been grown consistently in the Midwest for over a century, however…Read more about Purdue Boiler Bytes Features Hops Production Program[Read More]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Faculty and students at the horticulture department at Purdue University hit the ground running with a list of goals, projects and research prospects for the new year. Hazel Wetzstein, formerly a horticulture professor at the University of Georgia, was appointed professor and head of Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture…Read more about Feeding the future will require new foods, efficient practices[Read More]
Members of the Turf Science Program attended the Annual Sports Turf Managers of America (STMA) meeting in Denver Colorado. During the conference a team of four Turf Science students (Andrew Marking, Matt Dudley, Cam Rice and Matt Hession) competed in the STMA Student Challenge/Quiz Bowl competition where they placed 4th out of 30 teams from…Read more about Purdue Turf Students Compete in STMA Student Challenge/Quiz Bowl[Read More]
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