July 14 was a day of celebration for Dr. Cary Mitchell’s 50 years with our department. Current and retired Purdue HLA faculty, staff, students, and guests joined together to honor Dr. Mitchell’s work in controlled environment agriculture, outer space agriculture, and as an advocate for women in ag. Retired HLA Professor Dr. Jules Janick read[Read More…]
Welcome Alexandra Jewell, our new Senior Greenhouse Technician who joined the department on June 20th. She graduated from our department with a degree in Horticulture in May 2021 and worked at a horticulture facility for a year in Fort Wayne. When she saw the opening for this position, she knew that this is exactly where[Read More…]
Rebecca Traldi is a new postdoc in the department. She will be working closely with Dr. Linda Prokopy on the #Diverse Corn Belt project. She comes to us from the University of Maryland where she just completed her PhD, which focused on measuring the impact of agriculture and land-use change sustainability interventions. Rebecca has previously worked with the[Read More…]
Congratulations to Nathan Deppe who was recently promoted to Lead Laboratory Operations Specialist in recognition of his extremely competent leadership of the Plant Growth Facility during COVID, an almost-catastrophic power outage, and many other challenges. Congratulations to Pam Fisher who was recently promoted to Lead Extension Administrator in recognition of her excellent work supporting the[Read More…]
On Monday, July 18th, Vicki Stirm will host 8 high school students from the C-PASA (Carghill -Purdue Agribusiness and Science Academy) program. The program is in conjunction with the Office of Multicultural Programming in the College of Ag. They will tour the Purdue Student Farm and the Hort Greenhouse, and learn about urban agriculture and[Read More…]
A research article from the HLA Specialty Crop Weed Science Lab is available ahead-of-print in Weed Technology. The article features work from Jeanine Arana’s masters thesis with HLA co-authors Stephen Meyers and Wenjing Guan, as well as Bill Johnson (Botany and Plant Pathology). Dose-response of two Jack O’Lantern pumpkin cultivars to fomesafen applied preemergence.[Read More…]
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