Last Friday, HLA faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students came together for food and fun at Meigs Farm. The beautiful fall weather was perfect for a farm tour, cornhole, crafts and games for kids, grilled burgers and hotdogs, side dishes, an apple dessert competition, and free pumpkins, apples, and sweet potatoes to take home. Thank[Read More…]
3 The HORT 318 class visited Meigs on Wednesday. Lab concentrated on learning how to prune grape vines (with Miranda Purcell), peaches and apples (with Peter Hirst). Kyle Daniel showed them the effect of container type on root development. The students also harvested Cruciferous crops that were planted in September. Petrus Langenhoven showed them you[Read More…]
Camila Ulloa Gómez (MS Student) attended the 2022 National Agricultural Marketing Summit in Pensacola, Florida (October 22-25, 2022). I had the opportunity to participate in the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) session, Consumer Attitudes toward Food Choice, by presenting the paper “Characterization of the U.S. Mixed Salad Market: Environmental Attributes” by M.S. student Camila Ulloa,[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa has received a $100,000 grant from the Agricultural Research Service for his research on the Identification and regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops. Title: Identification and Regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops PI: Avtar Handa Project Period: 08/30/2022[Read More…]
Our team Split Happens played against Here 4 The Beer Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 9 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 6 out of 8 points, keeping our team in 3rd place for the third week in a row. In the Women’s Category, Alexandra Jewell placed 1st[Read More…]
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