While most vehicles driving towards the path of totality in the 2024 solar eclipse were loaded with family, friends and enough snacks to get...
The share of consumers who indicated they are either “rather happy” or “very happy” with their diets rose from 81% in...
Mohit Verma, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has been honored as a 2024 University Faculty Scholar for his work in...
April witnessed a steep decline in U.S. farmer sentiment, as indicated by the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, which fell 15...
The “COVID-19 Class” is a mini-series documenting the experiences of three members of the Class of 2024 from the College of...
Researchers interested in improving a given trait in plants can now identify the genes that regulate the trait’s expression without doing any...
Growing up in Monroeville, Indiana, a small-town near Fort Wayne, Noah Berning dreamed of attending Purdue University. His dream not only came...
The “COVID-19 Class” is a mini-series documenting the experiences of three members of the Class of 2024 from the College of...
Aquaculture production operations that help feed the world’s growing population also generate polluted wastewater that harms the environment....
A developer approaches a local plan commission, seeking approval to locate a wind or solar farm in the community. But the community may not have an...
A team led by Purdue University soybean geneticist Jianxin Ma has developed a new biotechnological tool for the domestication of desirable traits...
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Ardohain is not your average Purdue graduate student. There’s the “Lieutenant Colonel” part, to...
2016 was the first time that Jalyn Gearries, a Natural Resources and Environmental Science (NRES) alumna and Indiana native, ventured west of the...
The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP) is an organization of 11 universities funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the...
Purdue College of Agriculture professors Songlin Fei and Tesfaye Mengiste have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement...
Many consumers know the food safety risks of dairy products, eggs and raw meat. But they are less likely to understand the risks associated with...
The Food Entrepreneurship and Manufacturing Institute (FEMI), housed within Purdue University’s Department of Food Science, offers a guiding...
For the first time since its founding in 1990, the Purdue University College of Agriculture’s Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources...
In the past few years, specialty sauces like hot honey combined the classic warm, sweet feeling with a bright, spicy kick and have taken over...
Many consumers view conventional meats as both tastier and healthier than laboratory-grown alternatives, according to the March Consumer Food...
The Boilermaker Butcher Block’s selections will now include farm fresh eggs laid by Purdue chickens who are fed orange corn.
In the spirit of building a community to manage and protect the world’s forests, Liang and his colleagues in Science-i created the Global Big...
Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture....
U.S. farmers’ perspective on the future improved in March helping to push the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer up 3 points...
From winning products like soy-based candles and styrofoam to chewing gum, for 30 years the Student Soybean Innovation Competition has served as a...
Two Purdue Agriculture student athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten Honorees for the winter sports season. The Academic All-Big Ten team...
Americans generally consume about half the recommended daily dietary fiber requirement. These include certain grains, fruits and vegetables,...
It started with a paper airplane. It became a children’s book that has sold 200 copies and counting. Kourtney Otte, a sophomore in...
The community can support the Purdue University Student Farm in the 2024 growing season while enjoying an array of delicious vegetables by...
During the week of April 1-5, Purdue University’s College of Agriculture will host Ag Week on Memorial Mall. Ag Week is an annual series of...
Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term...
Last October, 2009 World Food Prize Winner Gebisa Ejeta received the highest scientific honor awarded in the United States. On April 1, he will...
A Purdue University-led research team has begun translating the complex molecular language of petunias. Their grammar and vocabulary are well...
Lei Zhang, assistant professor of plant nematology, is on the lookout for the soil-borne roundworm called soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Zhang...
From the plant sale to the legendary Bug Bowl, featuring the Cockroach Colosseum and honey tasting, the 2024 Spring Fest will offer an array of...
Most U.S. consumers surveyed in February 2024 predicted that they would see an increase in food prices over the next 12 months. Sixty-four percent...
Spring Break is here, and students and families are gearing up to escape the cold. For those with pets, the choice to leave furry friends behind...
Purdue PhD student Aimable Mugabo single-handedly distributed more than 1,000 USB cards promoting Purdue-based Scientific Animations Without...
The College of Agriculture recognized six alumni at the Distinguished Agricultural Alumni award Ceremony on March 8.
When he thinks of his childhood, Jacobo Mora recalls rows of fruit trees and colorful squash at Kercher’s Sunrise Orchard in Goshen, Indiana....
Alpha Zeta, an honorary society for agriculture students, has stayed the course with roots that began in 1897. The Alpha Zeta Honorary Society was...
Harnessing a pervasive type of cellular messenger shows early experimental promise as a routine way of sampling and monitoring the body’s...
The latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer reveals a modest increase in farmer sentiment compared to the previous month, though...
Bernie Engel, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture at Purdue University, has announced the appointment of Laura Bowling as the department head...
“When people have a fire or natural disasters in their homes, the first things they’ll grab are the photo albums. We need to appreciate...
The annual summary recording nationwide grain dust bin explosions reported nine incidents in the United States in 2023. This means that there was...
Fighting food insecurity isn’t as simple as growing more food. One of the biggest hurdles for countries on the path to alleviating hunger is...
Purdue University College of Agriculture is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for...
Purdue University’s Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) has launched its new interactive chilling hours tool. Growers now can more...
There’s still time to register for the 2024 Indiana Small Farm Conference. The 12th annual conference and trade show will take place Feb. 29...
If you’re cruising through northern Indiana in late summer or early fall, roll down your windows. Take a deep breath. Where does the smell...
Food or nutrition-related New Year’s resolutions were more popular among consumers going into 2024 compared to last year, according to the...
When someone wants to watch or share a video, they likely go to the free video sharing website YouTube, says Jinha Jung, associate professor of...
While couples buy rose bouquets, make dinner reservations and dress up for date night, researchers in Purdue Entomology are putting another twist...
Bernie and Andrea Engel had plenty of dreams when they were growing up in their respective rural Illinois towns. But the Glenn W. Sample Dean of...
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, or Galentine’s Day, as popularized by the show Parks and Recreation, we look for special ways to surprise our...
Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture....
Say you’re an agricultural scientist, and you know there’s technology out there that could be a game-changer in your research. But its...
Purdue University’s Agricultural Alumni Association presented six agriculture leaders with its Certificate of Distinction at the...
Cool wind brushes against your bare shoulders. A t-shirt felt like enough when you put it on this morning, but goosebumps now ripple down your arm....
Imagine broccoli’s short, sparse and ugly cousin, and you have Arabidopsis thaliana. It is native to Eurasia and some parts of Africa, but...
Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite...
Farmer sentiment took a downturn at the start of 2024 as the January Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index fell to a reading of...
A calm, crisp air filled with birds singing in the Hoosier National Forest awakens Maddie Milharcic, a junior in agricultural and biological...
Nestled in the southwestern corner of Indiana bordering a railroad is the town of Lyles Station, a small community with a rich past. Here, history,...
The College of Agriculture honored five Unsung Diversity Heroes on Jan. 19 as a part of the 13th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration...
The Purdue College of Agriculture welcomes 11 new faculty to campus, kicking off the start of the 2024 spring semester.
Purdue students had the opportunity to travel to Peru over the winter break. The South American country offers a blend of history, diverse...
Jiangshan Wang, a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, knew he wanted to take on a project that would...
Behind climatologist Melissa Widhalm’s desk is a framed painting of one of Purdue students’ favorite pastimes: sledding down Slayter...
A research team from Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry, with collaborator Sören Pirk...
From winter tornadoes to Canadian wildfire smoke, the Midwest experienced some record-breaking weather events in 2023. Climatologists with the...
The Purdue Student Farm, located on campus on Cherry Lane, is just one of the nearly 40 sites that an entomology research team visits once per...
If you took a biology class in high school, you probably learned that flowering plants reproduce when sperm cells, carried by pollen, fertilize an...
The Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award has honored an interdisciplinary team annually since 1995, based on the maxim, “Together Everyone Achieves...
Studying abroad can be an incredible, life-changing experience. Purdue Agriculture offers programs in numerous locations for varying lengths of...
Purdue will be gaining an internationally renowned expert in sorghum breeding this semester when Tesfaye Tesso of Kansas State University joins the...
Building off the previous month’s survey, the December 2023 Consumer Food Insights Report digs deeper into the relationships between food...
While most scientific research fields maintain open-access data policies, access to forestry data remains limited. “The utmost hurdle for...
How do the bacteria in a child’s gut contribute to illness? Can we prevent or treat childhood diseases by altering what kids eat? How do...
It’s hard not to call it serendipitous that the first book Ian Champ received as a child was "The Lorax," a book by Dr. Seuss that...
Registration is open for the 2024 Indiana Small Farm Conference — Indiana’s premier annual event for the state’s farming...
The newly launched Purdue University’s College of Agriculture Spring Start (CASS) program will enable an additional group of first-year...
An army of bow saws and boots march through dense thickets of forest patches in the Chicago region, cutting away greenery in the city and its...
Proteins are more than just important nutritional units to track in your diet. They are encoded into our DNA and are the building blocks of all...
Lauren Harmon, a native of Carmel, Indiana, grew up interested in science, and her love for plants drove her to choosing a path to study in the...
U.S. farmers’ sentiment changed very little in December compared to the preceding month. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer...
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