Insect Ecology Lab

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Ian Kaplan
ikaplan@purdue.edu

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Charles (Chuck) Hinkle in his apartment, framed illustrations of barns in the walls

Seeing the Century: A Life in Agricultural Engineering

Framed illustrations of barns in Charles (Chuck) Hinkle’s tidy apartment in a West Lafayette retirement community suit the congenial man who was once Purdue’s resident expert in farm structures. There are other mementos, too: a spike...

Seeing the Century: A Life in Agricultural Engineering

Framed illustrations of barns in Charles (Chuck) Hinkle’s tidy apartment in a West...

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Sophia Bollenbacher

Sophia Bollenbacher, a junior studying animal sciences, grew up on Bolle-Acres Jersey Farm in...

A resilient agricultural systems infographic depicting limited disturbance of soils, inclusion of cover crops and preservation of biodiversity.

Purdue University to host inaugural Resilient Agriculture Summit

Whether it’s called sustainable, regenerative or resilient agriculture, farmers across...

Purdue digital forestry students win first prize in 2024 Annual GeoChallenge

A team of digital forestry graduate students from Purdue University won first prize in the...

Consumer stress over grocery prices stands at midpoint

Stress levels due to grocery prices are mixed, and most consumers are at least somewhat familiar...

Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Steve McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid in a lab at the biochemistry building at Purdue University. (Purdue Agricultural Communications/Joshua Clark)

Purdue biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth’s mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2...