April 12, 2011
College of Agriculture honors top students, faculty, staff
Benjamin Daily of Hope, Ind., is this year's Outstanding Junior.
News
April 11, 2011
ABE Faculty Promoted
At the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, April 8, 2011. Faculty promotions were approved. ABE is delighted to have two faculty members included in the promotions.
April 8, 2011
Purdue, ADM partner in the new ADM Agricultural Innovation Center
The long-awaited new ABE building is finally underway! With the construction beginning south of the building on the new Life Sciences building, both the ABE shop and the Central Machine Shop would be displaced. ADM has partnered with the University to build an innovative building with classroom, laboratory, and shop space.
March 25, 2011
Purdue students create new products from corn and soybeans
A number of ABE students were involved with the Corn and Soybean Innovation contest.
March 15, 2011
Three-peat for ABE Graduate Program!
Once again, for the third year in a row, the graduate program in the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department is ranked #1 by US News & World Report.
March 2, 2011
Five Students Who Are...History Makers
One of our Biological Engineering students, Emilia Czyszczon, is featured in the news Five Students Who... series. Well done, Emilia!
January 24, 2011
Purdue Wraps Up Emission Study
Purdue Univ. researchers have delivered data to the Environmental Protection Agency on a two-year National Air Emissions Monitoring Study that gives a look at air quality on and around livestock farms.
November 3, 2010
Purdue Extension Group Hero to Farmers
In 1979, an Indiana farmer suffered a spinal cord injury. He asked Purdue's Ag Engineering Department to help him build something to modify his tractor that would allow him to continue farming. It was after this farmer's request, that the Breaking New Ground Resource Center (BNG) was formed.
October 15, 2010
Flying FAST
September 27-29, several Purdue students, both graduate and undergraduate, along with Dr. Marshall Porterfield, flew aboard the Parabolic Trainer at NASA.
September 16, 2010
Purdue getting nearly $1.6 million for biofuels crop research
Purdue University is receiving $1.59 million in federal funding for a project to conduct a sustainability assessment of energy crops for biofuels.
The funding is part of a $16.5 million renewable fuel initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide high-quality biomass while increasing economic viability for producers and improving the environment.
The funding is part of a $16.5 million renewable fuel initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide high-quality biomass while increasing economic viability for producers and improving the environment.
