Winter 2023 Stories
The Big Idea: Preventing foodborne illness
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Keeping a crop like cantaloupe safe for consumers is complicated. Find out how producers manage it.
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Growing future scholars through Red Gold Executive’s memorial
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
When Steve Smith (BS ’75, agricultural sciences), senior director of agriculture for Red Gold, passed away in 2021, tributes quickly poured in. People who worked with Smith viewed his many contributions to state and federal agricultural policies, as well as to a variety of agricultural coalitions and businesses, as both innovative and visionary.
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Alumni Close-Up: Honoring History, Building Community
Friday, January 13th, 2023
Head an hour south of Louisville and east from Interstate 65 to the hills (or “knobs,” as they’re called) of Nelson County, Kentucky, and you’ll find J.W. “Wally” Dant III (BS ’85, forestry and natural resources) on the 350 rolling acres of Log Still Distillery.
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My Purdue View
Friday, January 13th, 2023
I always loved mathematics, and ag econ was a way I could apply math to help me visualize how changes in quantities and formulas had ramifications on standards of living and government policies.
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Alumni Spotlights
Friday, January 13th, 2023
Alumni Spotlights featuring Nancie Oxley, Travis Park, and Robert P. (Bob) Schowe.
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Then & Now
Friday, January 13th, 2023
In the fall of 2022, the Natural Resources and Environmental Science program commemorated a half-century of making the earth a better place during its 50th anniversary celebration. One of the program’s earliest graduates became an award-winning professor in the College of Agriculture, and one of its most recent graduates now works as an environmental planner. Read on to find out how the program led them down different paths.
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Keeping Safety First in the Global Food Supply
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
Those of us at the consumer end of the food production chain don’t necessarily think about food safety much.
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Sustainable methods for making medicines
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
Purdue University researchers have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help the pharmaceutical industry cost-effectively achieve zero waste in its manufacturing operations.
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Improving hellbender habitats
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
A $2.7 million grant is funding a Purdue-led partnership to improve Indiana’s only remaining habitat for hellbender salamanders — four counties in the south central region — by expanding the use of agricultural conservation practices to decrease sedimentation in local river systems.
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