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 126
615 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765-494-8362
agresearch@purdue.edu

Graduate Spotlight

Graduate Spotlight

Austin Berenda
Jhacolby Williams - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Although Jhacolby Williams hails from Greenville, Mississippi, growing up in the heart of the Delta wasn’t initially the source of his interest in soil. However, in a family oriented toward business management, “I was the oddball who...

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Behind the Research

Behind the Research

Kimber in a corn field
Behind the Research: Kimber Nicoletti-Martinez, MSW, LCSW

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture. Collectively they’re integral to the college fulfilling its research mission. “Behind the...

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Honored by Girl Scouts

Honored by Girl Scouts

Julie Hickman
Julie Hickman is an amazing employee!

Julie Hickman, College of Agriculture's Director of Facilities and Planning, was recently honored for her volunteer work with Girl Scouts of Central Indiana.

Letter of Reference 2024
cattle grazing in field
Purdue FPAC Superintendent Brad Shelton receives Lawrence County Cattleman of the Year Award

Brad Shelton, superintendent of the Feldun Purdue Agricultural Center (FPAC), received the Lawrence County Cattleman of the Year Award at the Lawrence County Cattlemen’s Association-Indiana annual meeting.

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Purdue Ag Centers / Can-Am Partnership

AG NEWS

August 14, 2024

Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates

July 23, 2024

What you can do this summer to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species

July 23, 2024

Purdue Extension to present engaging art and nature demonstrations at Indiana State Fair

July 17, 2024

How Purdue researchers and the USDA are finding ways to bury carbon beneath our feet

RESEARCH NEWS

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Data-Driven Seminar Series

Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science,...

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Farmers market stand
Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates

Food inflation expectations and estimates both dropped last month to their lowest levels since...

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two students lean over a counter as the tinker on a remote controlled car together
Digital Ag Club’s Scarecrow-bot making its debut at Boiler Gold Rush

Thumping hind legs. Two pointed ears. White, fluffy cottontails. The markers of an enemy to...

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tomas hook next to boat
What you can do this summer to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species

In 2020, an alligator was captured in a lagoon of Chicago’s Humbolt Park. The reptile out...

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a tractor spreads gypsum across a field and a soil probe has a sample of six inches of a dark brown soil in the metal tube
How Purdue researchers and the USDA are finding ways to bury carbon beneath our feet

Soils are a rare win-win when it comes to burying the carbon released from burning fossil fuels....

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Songlin Fei, director of Purdue’s Institute for Digital Forestry and professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, standing among the trees in Martell Forest.
The Society of American Foresters honors Purdue professor with Award in Forest Science

The Society of American Foresters (SAF) annually recognizes individuals for their outstanding...

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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