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

Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira
Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Despite growing up with an economist father, Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira didn’t take to economics immediately. “In my undergrad, I was a bit lost,” she says. “I did economics, but I didn’t like it, so I studied...

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Behind the Research

Behind the Research

Sujoung Shim in lab
Behind the Research: Sujoung Shim

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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Meet our graduate students!

RESEARCH NEWS

Xing Liu and another lab member stand beside a stopped-flow machine in lab coats
Same shape, same function, different performance—a tale of two proteins

Every organism on Earth is a well-oiled machine in its own environment. It makes sense then that...

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Ag Barometer
Farmer sentiment rises as current conditions improve on U.S. farms

U.S. farmer sentiment continued its upward trend in February, as the Purdue University/CME Group...

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brown coffee beans scattered across a gray marble countertop
Coffee companions—why Colombian coffee farmers are planting legumes

Asking Colombians Hernán González-Osorio and Cristian Salinas how the coffee they get...

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Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira
Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Despite growing up with an economist father, Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira didn’t take to...

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portrait Yichao Rui, Cathie Aime and Luiz Brito
Faculty demonstrate research excellence through publishing achievements

Faculty members at Purdue wear many hats: teaching students, conducting research and sharing that...

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Two grain towers with corn leaves in the foreground
No increase in dust explosion incidents last year, decrease in injuries

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nine U.S. grain dust explosions in 2024 caused two injuries and no...

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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