Digital Agriculture: Why the Future is Now
Thursday, August 15th, 2019 • University News Story
Many see digital agriculture as the future of the industry. At Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, however, the future is unfolding now, in different patterns and paces across campus.
Read MoreExploration Acres announces maze celebrating Purdue University’s 150th anniversary
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 • University News Story
Exploration Acres, Northwest Indiana’s largest corn maze and pumpkin patch, has created an 18-acre corn maze commemorating Purdue University’s “150 Years of Giant Leaps.” The maze, located in Lafayette, will open to the public on Sept. 13.
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Extension Steps In
Friday, March 15th, 2019 • University News Story
How Purdue Extension is shoring up mental health care in Indiana
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The deans reunite at 2019 Purdue Ag Fish Fry
Monday, February 4th, 2019
By Emma Ea Ambrose The annual Purdue Agriculture Fish Fry, which took place on February 2 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, featured a panel discussion with the past five College of Agriculture Deans: Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, and former deans Bob Thompson, Vic Lechtenberg, Randy Woodson and Jay Akridge, Purdue’s…
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Purdue-led group prepares state for life with changing climate
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Purdue-led group prepares state for life with changing climate By Brian Wallheimer This past November, Jeff Dukes and Jonathon Day took turns returning phone calls. Reporters from all over Indiana – and some in Illinois and Kentucky – wanted to know what tourism in the state would look like over the coming decades as climate changes….
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Purdue works to flip switch on rural ‘Internet darkness’
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
For those with broadband Internet, it often seems as if we are inundated with streaming movies, social media and the occasional entertaining cat video. That pervasiveness makes the practical ways in which broadband improves daily life go largely unappreciated – unless you are among the thousands of Hoosiers who don’t have that access. With broadband…
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Technology distilled to grow the hydroponics industry
Friday, November 16th, 2018
By Chad Campbell When Horticulture Assistant Professor Krishna Nemali joined Purdue in July 2016, he immediately began to develop a program as new to the school as he was. Nemali studied agriculture in India before earning his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and spending nine years as a scientist in controlled environment crop physiology…
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ASEC graduate student’s NASA journey
Monday, October 15th, 2018
By Emma Ea Ambrose Someplace between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ms. Frizzle of “The Magic School Bus” lies Jessica Merzdorf’s career sweet spot. Merzdorf is a Purdue University graduate student with the Agricultural and Sciences Education and Communication Department. She studies science communication with Linda Pfeiffer, specializing in climate change communication. She was…
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PICS: How a technology scaled up to reach millions
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Why do we turn on our radios? For music, entertainment and maybe for news, if we’re feeling virtuous. Hardly anyone in the United States would say they turn on their radios for the advertisements. But if you’re a farmer in Eastern or Western Africa, a radio advertisement could be the difference between your family eating…
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