Former HLA graduate student and post-doctoral research associate Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani, Professor Celina Gómez, and Professor Emeritus Cary Mitchell have co-authored an article entitled Phasic Environmental Optimization for Indoor-grown Baby and Leafy Greens Utilizing Crop-level Gas-exchange Analysis.
Anna Paltseva received the 2026 Emma Marie Antonie Täuber Award from the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) during the 23rd World Congress of Soil Science held June 7–12, 2026, in Nanjing, China. The award recognizes outstanding early-career contributions to soil science. During the congress, Anna presented her research, “Who Bears the Burden? Trace Element…Read more about Anna Paltseva Receives IUSS Early-Career Award for Soil Science Research[Read More]
Congratulations to Mearaj Shaikh, postdoctoral researcher in the Widhalm Lab, on receiving a Best Poster Award at the 2026 Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) Annual Meeting. Mearaj was one of eight awardees selected from 95 poster presentations. Mearaj’s poster highlighted research from a joint USDA project between the Dudareva and Widhalm labs focused on…Read more about Mearaj Shaikh Earns Best Poster Honors at PSNA Annual Meeting[Read More]
Join Purdue Extension, the Indiana Organic Network, and the team at Bundle Sticks Farm for an engaging field day focused on a unique and increasingly valuable crop—broomcorn. Titled“A Clean Sweep: Broomcorn for Organic Transition,” this hands-on event will take place on August 10, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET in Lanesville, Indiana. Hosted…Read more about A Clean Sweep: Broomcorn for Organic Transition[Read More]
Andrew Flachs discussed his new book, Feeding the World as if People Mattered with Civil Eats, exploring landscapes and communities in India, Bosnia, and the Midwest who are weathering pandemics, climate disasters, and authoritarian politics while nourishing life.
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an oral presentation titled “How to Study Social–Ecological Memory in Agroecosystems: Methodological Insights from Empirical Research” at the 2026 annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food…Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Shares Research at AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting[Read More]
Purdue University’s Center for Community and Environmental Design (CCED) is inviting community partners to collaborate with senior Landscape Architecture students for the 2026–27 academic year. Through the Student Design Support program, students apply fresh, data-driven design perspectives to real-world challenges facing communities across Indiana and beyond. Each year, approximately 25 dedicated students work with local…Read more about Purdue CCED Seeks Community Partners for 2026–27 Student Design Projects[Read More]
Members of the HLA’s Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab recently published three peer-reviewed research articles. Greenhouse evaluation of napropamide and pendimethalin for suppression of strawberry daughter plant rooting and runner management implications. Jeanine Arana, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Bryan Young, and Nathan Boyd. Available ahead-of-print in Weed Technology. This research is one of former HLA…Read more about Weed Science Lab publishes three articles.[Read More]
Look out London here we come! The finals days of our trip were spent in London. We started with a stop at Wisley Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Gardens which were in the writer’s opinion really amazing. It was very rainy but we all wandered about anyway. We did a couple days of walking around London –…Read more about London Calling: A Memorable Finish to “In the English Landscape” Study Abroad[Read More]
On June 10 – 12, the HLA department hosted 16 high school students for the 4-H Academy. They participated in several activities: Landscape Architecture, student farm tour, Ross-Ade tour, baseball stadium tour, turf center activities, Exploring Plant Natural Product Chemistry, extraction of pigments from leaves, and a tour of the HLA greenhouses. These activities were…Read more about HLA Hosts 4-H Academy “Living Landscapes”[Read More]
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