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Growing up traveling the world, Abigail Bothwell always wanted to see how agriculture connects people across borders. At Purdue, she found the perfect place to turn that curiosity into real-world experience. Bothwell, from Denver, Colorado, is majoring in agricultural economics with a concentration in public policy and pre-law and plans to graduate in May 2026. She originally arrived at Purdue intending to study in a different department, but an introductory agricultural economics class quickly changed her path.
Purdue University has grown a thriving forest of more than 2,000 geographic information systems (GIS) users across campus. The largest numbers come from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Science. GIS and the Institute for Digital Forestry, among other Purdue academic disciplines, have grown together like trees with intertwined canopies. GIS enables users to create, manage, analyze and map data in fields such as the humanities, civil engineering, political science, and earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.
The average long-term return on the stock market is about 10 percent. For AgSEED, the Purdue College of Agriculture’s internal competitive grants system, it’s more like 400 percent. It’s an outsized return with outsized impact, benefiting researchers, students, and citizens across the state and beyond.
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