May 22, 2018
Purdue agBOT Team places again: 2018 agBOT Challenge Champions!
The Purdue ABE agBOT team earned another 2nd-Place finish in the 2018 agBOT Challenge, this year tying with IUPUI.
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May 21, 2018
Professor Dharmendra Saraswat: ASABE Standard Development Award
Professor Dharmendra Saraswat and the other team members of #EP621: Guidelines for Calibrating, Validating, and Evaluating Hydrologic and Water Quality Models have been awarded a standard development award from the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).
May 17, 2018
Purdue ABE Faculty, Staff, Students honored in Agriculture InFocus
Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture Karen Plaut released her May InFocus Awards publication today. ABE faculty, staff, and students were among those recognized.
May 2, 2018
We have MOVED!
In heightened anticipation of our new (and renovated) building, we have made the move to Lilly Hall!
May 1, 2018
Professor Laura Bowling, graduate student Sanoar Rahman: Streaming an Education
For a group of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences students, Thursday afternoons constitute a total “emersion education.”
Each Thursday, the students in the environmental hydrology lab go out in nature and develop hands-on skills on hydrologic field techniques and develop knowledge of hydrologic processes by actually getting their hands and feet wet in creeks, streams and ponds around the Purdue University campus.
Each Thursday, the students in the environmental hydrology lab go out in nature and develop hands-on skills on hydrologic field techniques and develop knowledge of hydrologic processes by actually getting their hands and feet wet in creeks, streams and ponds around the Purdue University campus.
April 25, 2018
Graduate Students recognized for teaching excellence
Stuart Smith received the Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award and Ahmed Hashem received the Graduate Teacher Certificate. Congratulations!
April 20, 2018
Purdue student team develops hydroseeding adhesive to win Student Soybean Innovation Competition
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 first place in the 2018 Student Soybean Innovation Competition. Team SoyTack won $20,000 for its soy-based tackifier, a fast-curing, formaldehyde-free soil stabilizer. The Indiana Soybean Alliance has funded the competition since 1994.
April 17, 2018
Professor Dharmendra Saraswat: New tools serves as digital logbook for drone users
“We’ve lacked a system to provide UAS users in agriculture with a way to record information about their flights, sensors and maintenance issues,” Saraswat said. “Thus, creation of a common protocol for UAS operations for various research- and production-related applications is an effort to plug that gap and bring standardization to flight data collection.”
April 13, 2018
Professors Field and Jin join College of Agriculture "Millionaire's Club"
In 2005, the College of Agriculture started a "Millionaire's Club." This exclusive club recognizes faculty who have been awarded a $1M or higher grant.