Awards August 2014 – May 2015 Faculty Steve Hallett has been promoted to the rank of Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Brian Dilkes has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Aaron Patton was awarded the 2015 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Faculty Mentor Award. The award was graduate student[Read More…]
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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 is[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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