ASLA Chapters for Michigan, Illinois, Upstate NY, Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects are hosting the 2024 Great Lakes Region Climate Action Seminar. This is the third in a series of events that explore landscape architecture’s role in addressing climate impacts in urban and natural systems across the Great Lakes[Read More…]
Purdue will celebrate the planting of the final tree of the 1869 Tree Planting Master Plan, according to the Purdue Today article: Purdue to celebrate achievement of 1869 Tree Planting Master Plan, receives Tree Campus USA Award for 15th consecutive year. The event will be held June 11 from 1:30-2 p.m. in front of the[Read More…]
Several HLA faculty and staff participated in a “Seed Your Future” lunch and learn event on June 3 for 30 high school science teachers who visited Purdue to learn more about careers in plant sciences. Thank you to Kyle Daniel, Yiwei Huang, Petrus Langenhoven, Ying Li, Brandon McNally, Steve Meyers, Karen Mitchell, Linda Prokopy, Gloribel[Read More…]
The early season has been very kind to the farm with nice temperatures and lots of rain! This has led to quick crop growth around the whole site with the onions looking particularly good this year. Many other crops including the kales, swiss chard, and collards have grown well enough to begin some early light[Read More…]
Drs. Mearaj Shaikh and Josh Widhalm published a paper with Dr. Mike Mickelbart and HLA alum Dr. Chan Yul Yoo in Plant Direct titled “Transcriptional repression of GTL1 under water-deficit stress promotes anthocyanin biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance.” Dr. Yoo received his PhD in 2011 working with Dr. Mike Hasegawa. He is currently an assistant professor of biology[Read More…]
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