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Issue: 22-05
February 4, 2022
Patton as well as members from BPP, FNR and Entomology.
In This Issue
Read more about the Purdue Landscape Report’s TEAM Award:
Purdue Landscape Report Officially Received the Purdue Ag
https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Purdue-Landscape-Report-Selected-for-
TEAM Award
TEAM-Award.aspx
LA Students’ Class Project Design to Open This Fall
Widhalm Lab PhD Student received USDA-NIFA Predoctoral
Fellowship Award
HLA Faculty Received 2022 AgSEED Grants LA Students’ Class Project Design to Open
LA Career Fair Held February 4
Kyle Daniel spoke at Professional Landscape Management
This Fall
School
Kyle Daniel Spoke at Michigan State University Extension
Christmas Tree Weed Management Webinar Series
Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan Part of $3.7M Project
Ross Braun and Aaron Patton Published Research Article
Former ESE-HLA Graduate Published Article from MS Thesis
HLA Seminar: Dr. Shinsuke Agehara
The Six Pillars of Farm Risk Management online course.
Save the Date: Indiana Hort Conference & Expo Virtual Webinar
Series
Purdue BOILERMAKER VEGETABLE Season Pass – 2022
Newsletters
Aaron Thompson’s LA students from Fall 2019 will see their class project
Purdue Landscape Report Officially design come to life this fall. With the help of Purdue Extension and
community groups who fundraised with private donations, the citizens
Received the Purdue Ag TEAM Award of Connersville, Indiana will be able to enjoy the J Long Memorial Second
Street Park. This park will be the first in Connersville to be accessible for
all ages and abilities. Congratulations to the citizens of Connersville for
their new park and to our LA students for their thoughtful design!
To learn more about what this project means to the citizens of
Connersville:
Article from Indiana Economic Digest: https://bit.ly/33ZPILo
TV3 News (starts at 2:25 mark): https://bit.ly/32KrEeY (starts at
2:25 mark)
Widhalm Lab PhD Student received USDA-
NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship Award
George Meyer, PhD student in Dr. Josh Widhalm’s laboratory, received
a USDA-NIFA predoctoral fellowship award. George will study the
metabolic mechanisms evolved by the black walnut tree to resist the
On January 31, the Purdue Landscape Report officially received the phytotoxic effects of its produced allelochemical juglone. George’s
Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award recognizing their interdisciplinary proposal is titled “Investigation of metabolic mechanisms underlying
achievements. Led by Kyle Daniel, the team includes HLA faculty and juglone resistance.”
staff members Lori Jolly-Brown, Kirby Kalbaugh, Rosie Lerner, and Aaron
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HLA Faculty Received 2022 AgSEED Grants
After a lot plan changes and alternations, the LA Career Fair still
successfully took place February 4 in our HORT building. We greatly
appreciate the firms who took heroic measure to arrive West Lafayette
to meet with our students. And we also want to thank those firms who
could not be here due to weather constraints — our students will get in
touch with you virtually! A big shout out to Professor Sean Rotar, our LA
admin assistant Jamie Moffatt, and Professor Dave Barbarash, to make
this event happen.
Kyle Daniel spoke at Professional
Landscape Management School
Kyle Daniel spoke at the Professional Landscape Management School
in Newburgh on Feb. 1 and 2.
Kyle Daniel Spoke at Michigan State
University Extension Christmas Tree Weed
Management Webinar Series
Kyle Daniel spoke at Michigan State University Extension Christmas
Tree Weed Management Webinar Series on Feb. 3
Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan Part of
$3.7M Project
Congratulations to Michael Mickelbart, Kathryn Orvis, and Joshua Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan are part of a $3.7M project that
Widhalm for receiving 2022 AgSEED grants. explores high-tunnel pest management, rural-urban variations in high-
Michael Mickelbart’s project is “Improving maize water-use efficiency tunnel pest management, and creates an online tool for farmers to
via stomatal traits.” calculate whether an investment in an integrated pest management
strategy or crop diversification will be profitable. This project is led by
Kathryn Orvis’s project is “Urban Farming Entrepreneurship Program: Elizabeth Barnes in Entomology. Read more about this project:
Providing minority youth entrepreneurship training to increase https://ag.purdue.edu/stories/extending-the-season/
employment and food access.”
Joshua Widhalm’s project is “Investigating chloroplast thievery in
photosynthetic sea slugs to understand the “rules of life” for
Ross Braun and Aaron Patton Published
endosymbiosis and to guide next-generation synthetic biology.”
Research Article
Ross Braun and Aaron Patton published a research article now
available:
LA Career Fair Held February 4 Braun, R. C., Braithwaite, E. T., Kowalewski. A. R., Watkins, E., Hollman,
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A. B., & Patton, A. J. (2022). Nitrogen fertilizer and clover-inclusion
effects on the establishment of fine fescue taxa. Crop Science, in press.
https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20704
Former ESE-HLA Graduate Published Article
from MS Thesis
Former ESE-HLA graduate Kyle Richardville published the first article
from his MS thesis titled ‘Leaf mold compost reduces waste, improves
soil and microbial properties and increases tomato productivity’ in the
journal Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems
doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20022. Co-authors include Lori Hoagland, Amit
Jaiswal, Aaron Thompson (HLA), Andrew Flachs (ANTH), Dan Egel
(BPP) and Dan Perkins (local farmer).
HLA Seminar: Dr. Shinsuke Agehara
Thursday, February 10 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Shinsuke Agehara –
University of Florida; Assistant Professor of Horticulture. Join via Zoom:
https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/97998949369
The Six Pillars of Farm Risk Management
online course.
Ariana Torres and Purdue researchers and educators just released a
new online course The Six Pillars of Farm Risk Management. This online
course allows participants to earn a Purdue Certificate! Open enrollment
is available through November 2022, but early enrollment is
encouraged. Link https://bit.ly/PurdueSixPillars
Purdue BOILERMAKER VEGETABLE Season
Pass – 2022
Save the Date: Indiana Hort Conference &
Expo Virtual Webinar Series
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Newsletters
Facts for Fancy Fruits: https://fff.hort.purdue.edu
Vegetable Crops Hotline: https://vegcropshotline.org/
Purdue Landscape Report: https://www.purduelandscapereport.org
Greenhouse and Indoor Production of Speciality Crops (Editor: Krishna
Nemali):
https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/newsearch.asp?subCatID=425%20&CatID=
10
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Editor: Pamela J Fisher | Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN 47907
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