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Soy-based mulch and playground surfacing wins annual Student Soybean Innovation Competition

April 5, 2022

Three simple ingredients along with a casting mold that created a substitute for mulch and rubber playground turf took the $20K grand prize in the 28th annual Student Soybean Innovation Competition sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance.

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Purdue Receives Over $2.8 Million In USDA/NIFA Funding for National AgrAbility, Indiana AgrAbility Projects

March 29, 2022

Agricultural and Biological Engineering’s AgrAbility Program has received $2,124,000 in funding for their National AgrAbility Project as well as $720,000 for the Indiana AgrAbility Project from the United States Department of Agriculture and National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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Agricultural Biological Engineering Program Earns #1 Ranking

March 29, 2022

Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) Graduate Program has again ranked #1 in its category in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Graduate Schools. The ABE graduate and undergraduate programs have consistently received top ranking over the last decade.

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Top 10 Reasons Purdue ABE has been #1 for 10 Years

September 22, 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

September 15, 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.

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How a diagnostic tool used on cows might unlock a key to COVID-19 testing

April 28, 2020

What do cows and COVID-19 have in common? Unless you’re Mohit Verma, assistant professor in Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, the answer is probably not much.

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Long-term study will offer more data on cover crop benefits

November 18, 2019

By Brian Wallheimer The popularity of cover crops has reemerged in recent years with farmers looking to a variety of grasses, brassicas and legumes to…

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Purdue partnering on 5G research to improve ag automation

October 10, 2019

By Brian Wallheimer Purdue University scientists are collaborating with colleagues at North Carolina State University and others on fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless network research…

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Purdue student team develops hydroseeding adhesive to win Student Soybean Innovation Competition

April 20, 2018

A chat with farmers over a cup of coffee in a small Indiana town led to an invention that earned a team of four students…

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