In labs, in fields, in greenhouses and in offices, Purdue Agriculture students keep growing. See how students from different majors are cultivating their futures through diverse internships around the country.
Here are the stories of four recent Purdue alumni who used their experiences to cultivate their own futures post-graduation.
Barbara Montemayor Martinez, a senior in food science with a minor in fermentation sciences, has taken being “a kid in a candy store”...
A child growing up in agriculture is as likely to recognize the deep green logo with a yellow deer leaping through it as they could any other...
The spider hanging upside down from the corner of your room and the silverfish that crawled out of your drain this morning might make you want to...
Mary Konstantin gets misty-eyed in the middle of a lab, beakers bubbling away in the background, as she recounts the amazing summer she spent...
The mouth-watering smell of rich chocolate and warm caramel floats through the kitchens in DeBrand Fine Chocolates as Ella Hildebrand begins her...
With a population of 810 residents, Sheffield, Illinois seems like many other small Midwest farming towns, and on the surface, it is. With...
At home, Madelyn Pierce is surrounded by houseplants. At work, she was surrounded by corn and soybeans. With her passion for plants and the...
Surrounded by tiny bottles with labels of different shampoo ingredients in a state-of-the-art laboratory, Kayla Hinton, a senior in agricultural...
Every month of Sara Zukowsky’s internship this summer could be its own novel, which is fitting for the Natural Resources and Environmental...
In a parking lot littered with cracked ceramic floor tiles and shards of glass, a water pump rumbles to life. Isabel Jensen, clad in steel toe...
“Our pets are our family,” is both motto and simple fact for Sidney Panaretos. The rising senior in animal sciences and pre-vet at...
With three different majors and three different career paths in mind, Dev Patel, Disha Lalit and Makinzie France each found summer internship...
At every stage of the growth process, Beck’s Hybrids is concerned with helping farmers profit from their efforts. According to their website,...
Chloe Hall, a junior from Zionsville, Ind., majoring in Natural Resources and Environmental Science (NRES), didn’t grow up in a traditional...
Nathan Tuchscherer, a rising senior in the College of Agriculture’s biochemistry department with a pre-med concentration, has never shied...
Growing up showing livestock, Ellie Staggs always loved beef cattle, but her summer internship with the Indiana Beef Cattle Association (IBCA) is...
Though agricultural economics students Taryn Wainscott, Jackson Lusk and Taylor Pinkerton share the same major and secured summer internships at...
With 118 years in operation, locations in 24 regions on six continents and 13 companies and partners in Chicago alone, Ball Horticultural Company...
With a toddler’s intelligence, lifespans of 80–90 years and colors ranging from blue to green to red, macaws are truly impressive...
There’s a lot in bloom right now in Purdue’s Jules Janick garden, located right beside the Horticulture building. You can find bright...
Hundreds of mosquitoes zip around in a circular, netted trap as Allison Beach explains the daily process of collecting and analyzing the mosquitoes...
For a second summer, Jack Gross has come back to work at Chobani’s Twin Falls, Idaho facility for more than just the all-you-can-eat yogurt.
When Nicholas Neuman, an agricultural economics and political science double major, applied for a variety of summer internships, he was thrilled...
Hari Thirumalai was browsing LinkedIn for summer jobs when he came across a post from the country’s third-largest wine company calling for...
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected all aspects of life, but few realize how much it affected the world of plants. For many people, houseplants...
At 8 a.m., the glass door slides open as Jackson Daftari, an agricultural economics major, swipes his key card to enter the door to the...
When Allison Lund entered Purdue as an agronomy major, she never expected she would pursue journalism in the College of Agriculture or that she...
With a toddler’s intelligence, lifespans of 80–90 years and colors ranging from blue to green to red, macaws are truly impressive animals, as Emily Carlisle has discovered working with them this summer.
The variety of internship positions Ball Horticultural Company offers has allowed the agribusiness, plant genetics and horticulture majors to explore and grow in the areas they are interested in, while also letting them have a real impact through their research.
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