The Purdue 1869 Tree Planting Master Plan, an initiative that involves planting 3738 trees by fiscal year 2025, won an award this fall in the “Environmental Sustainability Category” from the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA). The total number of trees proposed for planting on campus was determined by doubling 1869,[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…]
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…]
Dr. Shin-Han Shiu, Professor, Michigan State University, Plant Biology Thursday October 6th, at 3:30pm in HORT 117 or join via Zoom “Computational modeling of plant functions and traits: challenges and opportunities” Abstract: The rapid growth in a wide range of biological data has led to discoveries transforming plant science. Beyond the original intents for generating these data, there[Read More…]
