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News from the Purdue University Herbaria

November 24, 2025

Postdoctoral Scholar Feature: Terry Torres Cruz

The Purdue University Herbaria: preserving the past for future discovery

'Brews and Brains': Curator Rabern Simmons discusses fungi and the Herbaria

'Brews and Brains': Curator Scott McAdam talks about botany and beer

October 24, 2024

Could a fungus be behind the Salem witch trials?

September 23, 2024

More than mushrooms – what do the mycologists at Purdue study?

The Purdue Herbaria: an insider’s look at a university collection

Decoding climate change: tracking cottonwood trees' seasonal shifts

Plant pressings, photo albums and portals into our past

February 13, 2024

Curator of Fungi Rabern Simmons comments on a mushroom growing on a frog in India

November 1, 2023

Male cottonwoods advance their flowering times faster than females in response to climate change

January 18, 2023

Jeff Stallman on mushrooms and the theory of island biogeography

August 25, 2022

D. Woods Thomas Memorial Scholarship funds graduate student to travel to Honduras to research biodiversity of fungi

Catherine Aime Against Coffee Rust

December 26, 2021

Meet The Colombian Hunting For Parasites To Fight Crop Parasites

August 30, 2021

Invisible, Devastating and Sustaining: Research Explores Mysterious Microfungi

September 16, 2020

Coffee Rust Is Going To Ruin Your Morning

November 22, 2019

The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy to Enhance US Biodiversity Collections, Promote Research and Education

October 27, 2019

Purdue Herbaria Host First-Ever Virtual, Continent-Wide MycoBlitz

Fungi Hunters Uncover Hidden Worlds