Past News
Meeting Global Challenges Together
July 26, 2023
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and across Purdue are responding to the issues of climate, food, water and energy security from different angles. Increasingly, they’re doing it together, using a variety of interdisciplinary frameworks to enhance innovation, because an interconnected world needs interconnected solutions.
Melba Crawford Receives IEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal
July 13, 2023
Melba Crawford (CE) receives an IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal for work in developing remote sensing technologies that map crops more accurately, increase crop yields, and improve management practices while reducing the time it takes to select promising new hybrids.
Jennifer Freeman among Three New AVPs for Research
July 13, 2023
Congratulations to Jennifer Freeman (Toxicology), who has been appointed as the new assistant vice president for research development in the Office of Research.
Food Labels offer Consumer Choices but also Confusion about Animal Welfare
July 13, 2023
Marissa Erasmus (ANSC) discusses the confusion about food labels related to animal welfare and how producers need to submit certain claims about their food products to the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service for approval.
Food Labels offer Consumer Choices but also Confusion about Animal Welfare
Assessing Hail Damage in Corn
July 13, 2023
Daniel Quinn (AGRY) discusses how recent storms cross Indiana have impacted corn crops with hail damage. He discusses how the hail damage to corn largely dependent on what stage of development the corn plant is in when the damage occurs.
Study: Nearly Half of US Faucets Contaminated with Harmful Chemicals
July 13, 2023
Jason Cannon (HSCI) was featured on KSHB News discussing how it could take years for chemicals to leave our bodies. Stating, "The half-lives in blood may be up to a decade for some of these, meaning it may take ten years to remove half of what we have been exposed to."
Study: Nearly Half of US Faucets Contaminated with Harmful Chemicals
ISF Weekly Newsletter: July 13, 2023
July 13, 2023
Check out this week's ISF newsletter for upcoming events, featured news, publications, and funding opportunities.
Drone Imagery Analysis to Help Increase Soybean Yield in Wake of Climate Change
June 27, 2023
Keith Cherkauer (ABE) and Katy Rainey (AGRY) have worked to predict soybean biomass from drone imagery throughout Indiana. The project called Plot Phenix rapidly converts aerial crop photographs into useful information for plant breeding, crop modeling, and precision agriculture.
Drone Imagery Analysis to Help Increase Soybean Yield in Wake of Climate Change
Mineworkers in South Africa, the World's Largest Producer of Manganese, Complain of Memory Loss and Other Neurological Ills
June 27, 2023
Wei Zheng (HHS) has been featured in a Washington Post article discussing his research on the manganese production in China. Zheng discusses how the manganese industry needs to reckon the health concerns of the works but also the wider environmental impacts of expanding manganese mines and processing facilities.
Mineworkers in South Africa, the World's Largest Producer of Manganese, Complain of Memory Loss and Other Neurological Ills
Catastrophe in East Palestine
June 27, 2023
Andrew Whelton (CE) is featured in a Bloomberg Investigates documentary that covers the diverse environmental and community impacts from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment. He discusses what he and his research team discovered while testing the water in East Palestine.