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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
The following is from the Purdue Extension ANR Newsletter for July, 2022. Bringing Big Grains to the Small Farm Ashley Adair, Extension Organic Agriculture Specialist, has been busy with all of the things that come with the role of a new extension specialist – teaching, planning events, visiting growers, brushing up on the scientific literature,[Read More…]
Dave Barbarash published an invited paper in the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture and presented at the Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. The paper is titled: Automated Recording of Human Movement Using an Artificial Intelligence Identification and Mapping System. The paper includes three undergraduate student co-authors who contributed custom software code, text,[Read More…]
Lori Hoagland attended and gave a presentation at the North Central Region Technical Advisory Committee Meeting of the National Plant Germplasm System in Ames, IA. In addition to discussing how her lab is using the germplasm collection to investigate how crop domestication has influenced beneficial plant-soil-microbial relationships in tomato, carrot and quinoa, she covered how[Read More…]
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