Taking the Land-Grant Model Global

taking the land-grant model global

Were there challenges?” Haley Oliver, associate professor of food science, asks, reflecting on her experience establishing a food technology degree program at Herat University in Herat, Afghanistan. “The real question is: Where weren’t there challenges?”

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An Inside Take on Agriculture

An inside take on agriculture

Krishna Nemali, assistant professor of horticulture and landscape architecture and one of the leaders of the department’s controlled environment agriculture initiative, is working up a sweat tending a few small trays of seedlings — primarily lettuce and other green vegetables. Nemali and a team of researchers and Extension specialists are doing more than growing plants here; they’re nurturing an entire industry.

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When They Speak, Policymakers Listen

Government building

When They Speak, Policymakers Listen Assessing alternatives and consequences The “alternatives and consequences approach,” pioneered in the 1930s by Department of Agricultural Economics faculty members John Kohlmeyer and J. Carroll Bottum, infuses much of Tyner’s teaching. It’s also a mindset the department is passionate about passing on to junior faculty and students. “I tell my…

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Climate Change Comes to Campus

campus students unpack in heat

Climate Change Comes to Campus Heat’s impact on health The consolation for students of the 2050s is that all residence halls are likely to have air conditioning by then — and they’ll have to, for several health reasons. “Those move-in weeks can be hot,” says Barb Frazee, executive director of University Residences. “But because we’re…

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Helping Breweries Tap into Their Potential

a glass of beer in the 1869 Tap Room at Purdue

Helping Breweries Tap into Their Potential Brian Farkas, professor and head of the Department of Food Science, loves a good pint. But he thinks the department has valuable expertise to offer craft breweries in Indiana and the Midwest. “Many brewers are not scientists,” he points out. With the advent of a fermentation sciences program and the…

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Our Surprising Strength: Cancer Research

LNCaP cells

Our Surprising Strength: Cancer Research Andy Tao tempered his expectations when his lab started an experiment to see whether they could identify phosphorylated proteins in blood. Phosphorylation — the addition of a phosphate group to a protein — is often a precursor to cancer cell formation, but detecting the process would only be half the battle.…

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Using the Unused

collage featuring chorizo, a recycled chair, and a plant grown in a bottle

Using the Unused Millions of dollars have been spent to stop the spread of invasive Asian carp throughout the Midwest’s rivers. The fish, introduced in the Southeast to control weeds and parasites in aquaculture, escaped decades ago into the Mississippi River and have been slowly making their way to the Great Lakes, where they threaten to outcompete…

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Saving for the Future

A woman sells seeds in the Kimironko Market in Kigali, Rwanda. Purdue’s Postharvest initiative shares technologies and training that help dry, store, and process these grains important in local diets. Photo courtesy of J.C. Rubyogo.A woman sells seeds in the Kimironko Market in Kigali, Rwanda. Purdue’s Postharvest initiative shares technologies and training that help dry, store, and process these grains important in local diets.

Saving for the Future It’s impossible to measure the full impact of Madame Astou Gaye Mbacke’s entrepreneurship on the people of Senegal—and it all grew from small golden grains of millet. Her facility processes cereal-based products from grains grown by Senegalese farmers, including signature products of millet grain mixed with mango, baobab, or other local…

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