College of Agriculture News

College of Agriculture

Agronomy’s Lee receives Spirit of Land-Grant Mission Award

Charles Wineland
21 October 2025

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

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Agronomy Forestry & Natural Resources Botany & Plant Pathology Entomology

Purdue leads international effort to decode drought-resistant corn

Anna O’Neill Alexander
21 October 2025

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

Agricultural & Biological Engineering Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication

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

Lindsey Berebitsky
20 October 2025

Recent Posts

Ellen Van Loo standing in front of the entrance to the Boilermaker Market.

Agricultural Economics

New professor brings seasoned expertise in consumer food behavior research

23 October 2025

Ellen Van Loo, an expert in the field of consumer food behavior, has joined Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural Economics as an...

Entomology Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Zeus Mateos-Fierro - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature

20 October 2025

When Zeus Mateos-Fierro arrived in Indiana, he’d never seen a watermelon field in his life. Yet watermelons – specifically, the pests...

Food Science

Frozen Spinach Recalled due to Potential Listeria Contamination

17 October 2025

On October 6, 2025, Sno Pac Foods announced a recall of two brands of organic frozen spinach. This recall is due to possible Listeria monocytogenes...

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.

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Purdue-DARPA project explores plants as sentinels for chemical activity

14 October 2025

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has joined an effort to mobilize plants as chemical intelligence gatherers. Collaborating with...

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Behind the Research: Emily DeaKyne

13 October 2025

Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture....

Jackie Mudd stands beside a Holstein cow wearing a numbered tag at the Young Breeders School in Belgium. She’s smiling and holding the cow’s halter in front of a stage decorated with sunflowers, greenery and event banners.

Animal Sciences

Meet alumna Jackie Mudd: From dairy farm roots to global dairy leadership

13 October 2025

Purdue Animal Sciences alumna Jackis Mudd is building a future in the dairy industry through leadership and experience.

Forestry & Natural Resources

Unexpected Plants and Animals of Indiana: The nine-banded armadillo

10 October 2025

An armored mammal, once limited to the swamps and forests of the Deep South, is now burrowing its way through the backyards and woodlands of...

To Top