Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

Caroline Rose Alukkal

Caroline Rose Alukkal - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 16 March 2026

At an age when most kids are still learning long division, Caroline Rose Alukkal was already thinking about wastewater management. Her village in...

Terry Torres Cruz

Terry Torres Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 24 November 2025

Terry Torres Cruz’s path to mycology — the study of fungi — has been guided by lots of curiosity and a little bit of fate....

Zeus Mateos-Fierro

Zeus Mateos-Fierro - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 20 October 2025

When Zeus Mateos-Fierro arrived in Indiana, he’d never seen a watermelon field in his life. Yet watermelons – specifically, the pests...

Jiaxin Long

Jiaxin Long - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature — 24 September 2025

Many of us remember our high school lessons in genetics – drawing Punnett squares, examining our earlobes (attached? Detached?) or trying to...

FURTHER RESEARCH STORIES

close up of cow faces next to each other. One has perky ears and seems neutral, the other has wide eyes and a silly face pressed against a metal fence
What are animals feeling? Purdue animal scientists are learning how to read their emotions.

Heather Neave researches animal welfare, a field focused on understanding what practices can...

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Kelsey Budreau
Behind the Research: Kelsey Budreau

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that...

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two carpenter bees sitting on a coneflower with a blurred green background
Pollen & pollination

The eighth wonder of the world might be a hundred-million-year-old process: pollination. When...

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A swarm of both white-eyed bees and normal bees, those with black eyes, laying on a honey comb frame.
Beekeepers help Purdue Bee Lab make mutation discoveries

When most people picture a bee, they imagine a small black insect with a fuzzy body, yellow...

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Barbara Joyner
Behind the Research: Barbara Joyner

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that...

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the Szymanski and Siegmund labs stand together in front of photos and models of leaf epidermis on a screen between them.
Sticking together under stress: NSF grant brings plant biologists and engineers together to discover how tissues stay connected

Daniel Szymanski, professor of Purdue’s Departments of Botany and Plant Pathology and...

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