Hoagland Lab welcomes new research technician, Brenton Smith. Smith received an Associates in Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences from Vincennes University and Bachelors in Botany and Plant Pathology from Purdue University. While an undergrad at Purdue he worked in Dr. Chapple’s Lab in Biochem along with Dr. Jody Banks in the Ag Department. After graduation[Read More…]
New Staff
Barrett Wilson joined HLA on December 2 as the Hydroponic Research Operations Administrator. Barrett spent the past 6 years in the vertical farming industry, most notably as the Head R&D Grower for AeroFarms in Newark, NJ and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Prior to that, he served as a 6th grade science teacher in the Bronx, NY and[Read More…]
Brittany Weerts has joined HLA as the new Hydroponic Research Operations Administrator. Her background is in commercial growing, with an emphasis on greenhouse and hydroponic production. For the last three years, she worked as the Head Grower for Eden Valley Farms, a hydroponic start-up in Francesville, Indiana, where they supplied major retail chains with fresh[Read More…]
HLA welcomes Kristina Cooley, who joined us as our Graduate Program Coordinator/Landscape Architecture Administrative Assistant earlier this week. Hi Everyone, I’m excited to be joining the HLA team! I have 25+ years of experience in agriculture in one form or another. I get the question often: Why Ag? For me, it’s the People-Opportunity-Variety-Mission. I have[Read More…]