Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Seeding progress and harvesting innovation: Pioneering agricultural research for a sustainable tomorrow

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Purdue Agriculture is known around the world for groundbreaking multidisciplinary research that addresses society’s most pressing challenges. Agricultural Research and Graduate Education connects researchers with opportunity to enable world-changing discoveries in agriculture and life sciences.

Agricultural Administration Building, Room 105
615 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765-494-8362
agresearch@purdue.edu

Graduate Spotlight

Mayara dos Santos Rocha - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

As a child in Rio de Janeiro, Mayara dos Santos Rocha loved animals so much she figured she’d become a veterinarian. But when it came time for college, her father, a former agronomy student and now a retired fisherman, suggested, “Why...

Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Jingxian An - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Jingxian An has always been interested in the science of what people eat and drink, whether pharmaceuticals, alcohol or food. As an undergraduate and master’s student in pharmacy, she studied traditional Chinese medicine. Her master’s...

Behind the Research

Behind the Research: Jackie Getson

Jackie Getson, project manager for Purdue’s Institute for Digital Forestry, has built a career at the intersection of disciplines. “I work with people who are domain experts — experts on how to measure trees, or experts on how...

Elements

Elements is a new faculty reporting tool for all West Lafayette campus for administering annual reviews. It is led by the Provost’s office, managed by Institutional Data Analytics + Assessment (IDA+A), and shared across all colleges and schools.

Elements

INSTITUTE FOR PLANT SCIENCES

Purdue’s bold investments in plant sciences have made it a global leader, transforming agriculture in Indiana and beyond.

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Purdue On the Farm

Purdue On The Farm strengthens ties between Purdue researchers and Indiana farmers through direct, hands-on engagement.

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AG NEWS

August 5, 2026

Mushrooms in space: Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond

July 20, 2026

Mapping the development of cotton fibers through multiomics profiling

July 16, 2026

Of mice, birds and men: Purdue researcher builds a simulation of how wild birds and rodents affect the spread of avian flu on farms

June 24, 2026

Behind the Research: Jackie Getson

RESEARCH NEWS

4 students stand in front of marshall porterfield, all in different space and NASA shirts, one carrying a plastic jug with a white fungus growing over a mycoponics tube inside. Grow tents line the background on each side.

Mushrooms in space: Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond

Porterfield founded MycoGravity — the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology...

After 3 months of decline, farmer sentiment rebounds in July

After three consecutive months of decline, farmer sentiment rebounded as the Purdue...

Virginia Akins in the Biochemistry building

Building community starts in the lab

Ask Purdue biochemistry students in the College of Agriculture about their experience and their...

Jared Trask sits with brown and white chickens in a grass field

Of mice, birds and men: Purdue researcher builds a simulation of how wild birds and rodents affect the spread of avian flu on farms

Trask is writing a new narrative about rats, birds and people as he pursues his doctorate in...

High input-cost concerns continue to weigh on farmer sentiment

Producers continued to express concern about farm finances as the June Purdue University/CME...

Behind the Research: Jackie Getson

Jackie Getson, project manager for Purdue’s Institute for Digital Forestry, has built a...