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…]
Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Thompson, who will join the 2024-2025 Insights Forum. Purdue Insights is a leadership forum hosted by Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost intended to support faculty who are interested in exploring leadership at a university, increase the pool of potential leaders at Purdue, and expand our capacity for leadership[Read More…]
Last week, Dr. Prokopy attended the MANNRS (Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources and Related Sciences) Purdue Chapter annual banquet to celebrate the accomplishments of the Chapter (first place in the nation!) and celebrate our student members – Otto Hoehl (Turf Management and Science), Spencer Logan (Pre Landscape Architecture), Shivika Aggrawal (grad student). Shivika, co-advised by[Read More…]
The Purdue Horticulture Society held the end-of-the-semester dinner on April 24th at Walt’s Pub. In addition to announcing new officers, thanking previous officers, and presenting Hannah Beck with the (newly named) Dr. Mike Dana Outstanding Member Award. The club presented long-time advisor, Dr. Mike Dana, a Purdue rain gauge and a pot with am inscription[Read More…]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on[Read More…]
Thanks to a generous donor, two freight farms that will be used for controlled environment demonstrations and research will soon hit the road to West Lafayette. They are scheduled to arrive Monday morning, April 28, at the Purdue Student Farm. All are welcome to view their arrival. An official celebration will be scheduled at a[Read More…]
The Purdue Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass is back for 2024! Take a giant leap towards supporting the Purdue Student Farm. Sign up for the Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass to get your box of Purdue-grown vegetables, herbs, and fruits! Once you have signed up, you have the option to pay by check or credit card. See[Read More…]
Hydroponics training is offered to everyone in May and June at Purdue University. Interested participants can choose either May or June session. There will be four classes for each session on Saturdays from 9am-4pm. Training will be provided at the state-of-the-art Purdue hydroponics facility located in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, 625 Ag.[Read More…]
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