Working With the Soybean Lab

I started working for the Purdue Soybean Extension Lab in November of 2022. Since then, I’ve processed leaf and grain samples with grinding and NIR testing. I worked as a full-time employee the summer of 2023, managing field research trials in different parts of Indiana. My favorite thing about being apart of the lab though was getting to work with people from different parts of the world. My first month I met two visiting scholars from Brazil and Ecuador, then the following summer I got to meet to new workers from Brazil and Honduras, who became some of my best friends. Learning about Portuguese and Spanish was really interesting, and helped me begin my journey of learning a new language. I would definitely recommend this experience!