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Into the woods: Discovering forestry at Purdue — 17 December 2025

Organic greenhouse in Peru

Growing food security in the High Andes — 16 December 2025

Headshot of Maria Marshall standing in the hallway of an academic building, smiling.

2025 Hovde Award recipient announced — 15 December 2025

Marisol Sepúlveda, professor of forestry and natural resources, speaks at the front of her class on One Health topics.

Applying One Health in the Classroom — 12 December 2025

close up of pink poinsettia flower

Pampering your poinsettia and crafting poinsettia plant pressings after the holidays — 12 December 2025

Blaine Wagner poses with laboratory equipment

Driven by curiosity: Blaine's journey in biochemistry — 09 December 2025

Mongolian Energy Giving Site

From bird song to bulldozers, sound affects our wellbeing — 08 December 2025

Food Science booth FAO

Purdue food science showcases innovation on global stage at FAO exhibition — 05 December 2025

Lavanya Reddivari with blueberries in her lab in West Lafayette, Ind. on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Reddivari created complexes of anthocyanin, the compound in blueberries responsible for their color, and pectin to treat ulcerative colitis.

Optimizing food as medicine — 04 December 2025

Monnin visits CASE-IH

Growing a future in agrosecurity — 03 December 2025

A mom and toddler look through binoculars

Designing a spot to watch the buffalo (or bison) roam — 24 November 2025

Leuck as an intern for professional sports teams.

Small steps to stadium dreams: A turf science student’s path to professional sports — 20 November 2025

Sam and Kelly Williams are pictured on their farm in West Virginia’s South Branch Valley.

Community Champions — 17 November 2025

yuliia khoma poses with ferns in the greenhouse

Second plant, second chance, second home: Ukrainian Scholar Yuliia Khoma — 14 November 2025

Bedel soil lab

From farm roots to future agronomist: Finding a home at Purdue Agriculture — 13 November 2025

Meghan Haws in a Purdue T-shirt posing in front of a staircase

Speaking up for agriculture — Meghan Haws — 10 November 2025

Mike Mickelbart and John Couture look at a corn leaf in a greenhouse

Purdue leads international effort to decode drought-resistant corn — 06 November 2025

Purdue Agriculture 2025 Career Fair

Employment outlook remains strong for agriculture graduates — 05 November 2025

Ag Barometer

Livestock sector optimism fuels a modest rise in farmer sentiment in October — 04 November 2025

ASM Club Tour

Purdue’s ASM Club helps students forge connections beyond the classroom — 04 November 2025

Mount Herbaria

Finding community and purpose in plant science — 30 October 2025

Verma with spectroscopy

Light-based tool continuously monitors vaccine quality during production — 28 October 2025

Tyler Hoskins collects zebrafish from wetlands near Purdue.

Working together to mitigate forever chemicals — 24 October 2025

AI dog that tracks ticks

Tracking ticks and tackling disease: AI transforms medical entomology — 24 October 2025

Steve Lindeman in Lab

Researchers explore connections between human and animal health — 24 October 2025

Linda Lee in front of trees

Agronomy’s Lee receives Spirit of Land-Grant Mission Award — 21 October 2025

Agbridge participants standing as a group or working together from their phones

AgBridge 2025: Bringing digital agriculture to middle and high school classrooms — 20 October 2025

Akanksha Singh, a postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Bryan Young, professor of botany and plant pathology, catalogs plants for phenotyping at the Ag Alumni Seed Phenotyping Facility.

Purdue-DARPA project explores plants as sentinels for chemical activity — 14 October 2025

Nine-banded armadillo

Unexpected Plants and Animals of Indiana: The nine-banded armadillo — 10 October 2025

Lana Malek golf swing

Swinging big: Balancing golf, research and biological engineering at Purdue — 09 October 2025

Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Resounding question drives Ricker-Gilbert's research — 08 October 2025

sunrise on purdue student farm over rows of young green plants

Indiana Organic Network: Cultivating community for Hoosier farmers — 08 October 2025

Ag Barometer

Farmers say current conditions on U.S. farms are weakening — 07 October 2025

Kingsly Ambrose in front of the solar system model in Discovery Park on campus.

ABE professor Ambrose recognized for advancing ag safety and health — 30 September 2025

Rice inspects insects in the lab

When passions connect: insect biology meets history — 30 September 2025

Seedlings growing in a slash-and-burn agricultural field in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. Credit: © FAO / Giulio Napolitano

Mobilizing AI to monitor forest growth and carbon sequestration — 29 September 2025

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Colorful leaves, colorful garden: How to keep veggies thriving in the fall — 25 September 2025

person and flowers

The art of nature — 22 September 2025

Indiana Farmland

Indiana farmland prices continue record high trend in 2025 — 22 September 2025

Distinguished Ag Alumni

College of Agriculture adds 6 to ranks of Distinguished Ag Alumni — 19 September 2025

Purdue ag students holding signs at the 2024 AgDay College Roadshow.

Calling ag students to join the AgDay College Roadshow — 19 September 2025

Halee Fisher infant of the White House in her cap and gown.

Purdue alumna Halee Fisher grows a career at the USDA — 16 September 2025

 Purdue research scientist Bilal Ahmed examines a microfluidic paper-based biosensor cartridge under light to display the visible results of an assay for genetically modified crop traits.

Novel biosensor detects genetically modified corn and soybean — 16 September 2025

Graduate students standing in front of a tractor while working on a laptop.

Purdue University students launch inaugural SyDAg and Hackathon Weekend — 15 September 2025

Alumni working at Chobanni

Blending food, science and global experience — 12 September 2025

Prescribed burn in woods

Prescribed burns: A vital conservation tool for Indiana landowners — 09 September 2025

GLP-1 Solution

A natural GLP-1 stimulant? — 04 September 2025

Ag Barometer

Farmer sentiment weakens as producer confidence in future wanes — 02 September 2025

John Deere Auto Unload

Harvesting in sync: Purdue and John Deere develop automated unloading technology — 02 September 2025

Students walking and bicycling under the Purdue University arch this summer.

College of Agriculture introduces 14 new faculty members — 26 August 2025

andrea vacca stands in Maha facility in front of construction vehicles

Purdue professor Andrea Vacca inducted into Fluid Power Hall of Fame — 21 August 2025

Ag Econ Index

Agrifood Economy Index rebounds but remains below baseline — 21 August 2025

Caitlin Proctor

ABE faculty member wins prestigious NSF CAREER award — 20 August 2025

Olympia Fields Turf Science Team

From the home turf to the legendary greens at iconic golf course — 19 August 2025

a hemp plant and its seeds set on a table

Eat your hemp heart out — the benefits of hemp seeds on gut health — 31 July 2025

soybean leaves in a field

From the research frontier to the field: Purdue’s soybean community reimagined — 28 July 2025

Customers in a store at a cash register

Public understanding of food insecurity widely varies — 09 July 2025

Pole Vaulter

Purdue Agriculture athletes earn Big Ten recognition — 03 July 2025

Ag Barometer

Farmer sentiment weakens due to cloudy trade outlook — 01 July 2025

The Purdue Bell Tower behind some green tree branches

2025 Hovde Award nominees sought — 24 June 2025

Purdue Alumni and John Deere employees stand by a tractor they have had a part in designing.

ABE alumni drive hydraulic innovation at John Deere — 23 June 2025

Upinder Kaur, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, works on a robot dog that finds ticks and identifies tick activity.

Using artificial intelligence to understand the natural world — 17 June 2025

Boats sailing near shore, picture from a above

Ag Boilers Abroad: Studying sustainability beyond borders — 16 June 2025

Rachel Stevens

Behind the Research: Rachel Stevens — 09 June 2025

Ag Barometer

Farmer sentiment reaches a four-year high in May — 03 June 2025

Researcher holding a chicken

New assay offers way to combat threat of highly pathogenic avian flu — 02 June 2025

Graduating students

Purdue Agriculture graduates take their next giant leap — 15 May 2025

Alexus Arvin takes a water sample at the Agronomy Center for Research and Education.

Farm Research Prepares Students for Their Future — 25 April 2025

Dr. Nicole Widmar & Dr. Tomas Höök

Purdue Agriculture announces new department leaders — 24 April 2025

Thaisa Cantu-Jungles, lead author of the study, shown here extracting DNA from gut bacteria treated with fibers

Mixing fibers for gut health — 24 April 2025

Douglass Jacobs stands next to a tree in Sweden.

Piecing together a forest puzzle — 17 April 2025

Jade plant

How to transform your space with houseplants — 14 April 2025

Doris Kemler works in lab at Purdue.

Behind the Research: Doris Kemler — 14 April 2025

Penguin in Antarctica

Contaminants in the cold: How everyday chemicals are affecting Antarctic fish — 08 April 2025

Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio over looking the city

From curiosity to connection: Kylie Bedel’s study abroad adventure in Brazil — 07 April 2025

Sailboats in the ocean

All roads lead home: One student’s unexpected path to Purdue — 04 April 2025

Simerdeep Kaur sits at a lab bench wearing black gloves, a black lab coat, and safety glasses as she places a vial in a blue light up box

Purdue researchers show common bacterial assay is unreliable — 03 April 2025

Shelby Sliger works in the lab with Arabidopsis plants.

Shelby Sliger: My Purdue View — 02 April 2025

Ag Barometer

Producer sentiment slips due to rising policy uncertainty — 01 April 2025

Yaguang Zhang stands in front of the orange sun sculpture at Purdue

Using sun shadows and simulations to combat snowy roads — 25 March 2025

John Baugh stands in front of the Purdue Memorial Union.

Commitment to the community of agriculture — 18 March 2025

Students work with professor at computer in Purdue lab.

More ideas for new pharmaceuticals, faster — 17 March 2025

Gateway Arch at Purdue University

Purdue, Kearney announce partnership to enhance agribusiness education and innovation — 13 March 2025

Male researcher water collecting data from water tank

Working together to mitigate forever: Managing persistent PFAS in our environment — 13 March 2025

Ag Barometer

Farmer sentiment rises as current conditions improve on U.S. farms — 04 March 2025

brown coffee beans scattered across a gray marble countertop

Coffee companions—why Colombian coffee farmers are planting legumes — 04 March 2025

Sujoung Shim in lab

Behind the Research: Sujoung Shim — 10 February 2025

Vidya Nagaraju and Kingsly Ambrose measure the size and shape distribution of particles

Particle science innovations focus on improving grain facility safety — 05 February 2025

Memorial Mall

U.S. farmers retain optimistic outlook for 2025 despite ag trade uncertainty — 04 February 2025

People holding phone showcasing the SAWBO application.

New Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) app takes an encyclopedic approach to sharing information — 31 January 2025

Boat on a harbor ready to sail, Land of Fire and Ice, Iceland

Ag Boilers Abroad: Exploring Food Science and Culture in Greece — 30 January 2025

Ankita Raturi, an assistant professor in agricultural and biological engineering who runs the Agricultural Informatics Lab

Ankita Raturi Wins Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Food — 14 January 2025

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Top stories of 2024 — 02 January 2025

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