Teaching
Research hits home for professor caught in the digital divide
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
As a professor of agricultural economics at a major research institution, Nicole Olynk Widmar relies on Purdue’s high-speed internet. But once she leaves campus and arrives home about 15 minutes later, Widmar counts herself lucky to even connect to the internet. Zoom can, at times, be a pipe dream.
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Purdue food science video scavenger hunt welcomes new majors
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented large hurdles to overcome, particularly for Purdue’s new incoming students. Allie Kingery, the department’s undergraduate academic adviser, approached the food science club officers with the idea of making a Philip E. Nelson Hall Scavenger Hunt video for the department’s freshmen seminar class. Purdue’s Food Science Club jumped at the opportunity to help. The club members remembered having the scavenger hunt in the beginning weeks of their freshmen year and how fun it was to explore the building.
Read MoreHere’s a wine tour you can take, or give as a gift, anytime, anywhere (virus or no virus)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 • University News Story
Wine tours out the window in the wake of COVID-19? There’s a way you can still take a tour of one or more notable wine-producing regions around the world – without even leaving home.
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Top 10 Reasons Purdue ABE has been #1 for 10 Years
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
The U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges recently announced that Purdue’s Department of Agricultural Biological Engineering (ABE) is the top-ranked undergraduate department in its discipline for the 10th year in a row. Purdue’s graduate ABE program was ranked first by U.S. News and World Report in 2019 for the ninth time in 10 years.
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Ag labs rise to COVID challenge
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing many aspects of life on the Purdue campus to change. Faculty and graduate students are rising to the challenge, redesigning lab courses in creative and innovative ways.
Read MorePurdue agricultural biological engineering department ranked No. 1
Monday, September 14th, 2020 • University News Story
The U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges announced today (Sept. 14) that Purdue’s Department of Agricultural Biological Engineering (ABE) is the top-ranked undergraduate department in its discipline for the 10th year in a row. Purdue’s graduate ABE…
Read MorePurdue professors to develop course on agriculture informatics for agriscience students
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 • University News Story
A multidisciplinary team from Purdue University, under the leadership of Dharmendra Saraswat, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, recently received funding from the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program of the …
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Supporting students from Zamorano to Purdue and home again
Monday, July 13th, 2020
Staff in IPIA and Food Sciences worked behind the scenes this spring to ensure 11 international interns’ well being and repatriation.
Ada Camila Montoya Gomez, a senior in environmental engineering at Zamorano University in Honduras, was deep into three research projects at Purdue this spring when safety concerns around the coronavirus closed the university.
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Not in Kansas anymore, Associate Dean Wilson returns to Purdue
Friday, March 13th, 2020
“The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example,” said Christine Wilson, quoting Purdue alumnus John Wooden. Wilson, the newly appointed associate dean and director of academic programs for the College of Agriculture, thought her life would follow a similar path to Wooden’s, but as Wilson noted, “Sometimes plan B is better than plan A.”
Wooden taught high school English, but he is better-known as the first athlete inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. As a teenager, Wilson was determined to earn a scholarship playing basketball, with the goal of becoming a high school math teacher and basketball coach.
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Message from the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Dear Purdue Agriculture Community,
Purdue University leaders have made important strategic decisions regarding our campus response to the outbreak of the newly identified coronavirus, COVID-19. I invite you to read more about those decisions and how they will be impacting classes on this site, which will be updated daily.
For Purdue Agriculture, these important guidelines have several implications that I want to share with you. We will be updating information regularly on this page and through our Twitter feed @PurdueAg.
Read MoreUrban Agriculture certificate now offered online
Monday, March 2nd, 2020 • University News Story
The College of Agriculture’s Urban Agriculture team is launching the online Urban Agriculture Certificate in partnership with Purdue Online, to be offered 100% online. Registration is open, and the “Growing Guide for Healthy Crops” course begins March…
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Top ABE department appoints new leader for new century
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
By Chad Campbell In 1998, Nathan Mosier thought he was looking for the best graduate school when he chose Purdue’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE). What he soon realized was that he had also found the ideal professional home – one in which he has learned, taught and led for the last 21…
Read MorePurdue College of Agriculture launches new online graduate certificate
Thursday, December 5th, 2019 • University News Story
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture recently launched a new online spatial data science graduate certificate. The nine-month program is designed for learners with a bachelor’s degree looking to gain technical expertise to broaden the scope of th…
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National Teaching and Student Engagement award winner explores learning opportunities with students
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
By Chad Campbell From a distance, Elizabeth Karcher kept an interested eye on her dozen students while they explored a bustling market in Ho Chi Minh City. It was “free time,” but opportunities like these were why Karcher encouraged students to travel to Vietnam. Karcher, an assistant professor of animal sciences, was one of two…
Read MoreRegistration open for Indiana Horticultural Conference and Expo
Monday, November 18th, 2019 • University News Story
The Indiana Horticultural Conference and Expo will feature more than 150 education sessions, a trade show and networking events for fruit, wine, vegetable, hemp and other growers on Feb. 11-13. Experts from Purdue University, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and a…
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Spirit of the Land-Grant Mission Award presented to Haley Oliver
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
By Abby Leeds Haley Oliver, associate professor in food science, was recently honored with Purdue Agriculture’s 2019 Corinne Alexander Spirit of the Land-Grant Mission Award. An expert in retail food safety with an international reputation for her lab’s work on the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, Oliver is the principle investigator and director of the Feed the…
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Much to learn from annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
By Chad Campbell “Small changes can make a big difference in students’ undergraduate experiences and professional development,” said Elizabeth Flaherty as she presented the Kohls Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Lecture. In recognition of her innovation and excellence in teaching undergraduate students, Flaherty was one of two professors selected to present during the College of Agriculture’s sixth…
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PASA gives high school students a hands-on look at agriculture
Tuesday, August 20th, 2019
Video by Joan Crow and Steve Doyle Article by Chad Campbell Mia Vonic reacted as you might expect when her father encouraged her to spend two weeks of her summer vacation at an educational camp. “I didn’t really want to,” said Vonic, who will soon begin her senior year in high school. “I wanted to…
Read MorePurdue takes on global food insecurity challenge
Thursday, March 28th, 2019 • University News Story
The number of malnourished people on the planet had been decreasing — but then something happened. Over a three-year period from 2015, the number of those impacted by hunger and food insecurity returned to levels not seen for a decade and jumped from about 785 million to 840 million.
Read MoreShaping young minds: community, nature and 3D printers help spark early interest in STEM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 • University News Story
Getting young students interested in science and math may soon be much easier for teachers – as easy as point, click and print.
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