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HLA Happenings April 13-17, 2015 Monday, April 13, 2015 Bruce Bordelon and Hazel Wetzstein will attend the Indiana Wine Grape Council Spring meeting at Chateau Thomas winery in Plainfield.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. in Dean’s Auditorium, PFEN Provost visit to the College of Agriculture
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. in HORT 222 Khalil Jahed MS Thesis Defense Seminar “Male and female interaction in apple: pollen tube growth, fruit set, fruit quality, and return bloom”
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. in Deans Auditorium, PFEN Jian-Kang Zhu, Purdue University “Mechanisms of epigenetic silencing and anti-silencing in Arabidopsis”
Wednesday, April 15 from 10:00-11:00 a.m., HORT 217 Coffee Hour. Drop in to interact with your colleagues. Graduate Students, this is your chance to chat with faculty. Please bring your own cup.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in HORT 222 Biying Shi, MS Thesis Defense Seminar “Growth parameters for ‘Golden Delicious” apple trees (Malus x domestica Borkh.)”
Wednesday, April 15 Garrett Owen and Roberto Lopez will be conducting extension greenhouse visits in the Fort Wayne area and conducting a diagnostic and identification session in Warsaw, Indiana. Wednesday and Thursday, April 16th and 17th. HORT Bldg 2nd floor outside of room 207. Bake Sale for Food Finders Please email Jennifer Deiser at [email protected] with your choice of donation. Please bring your donation individually wrapped!
Thursday, April 16 at 3:30 p.m. (reception at 3:10 p.m.) in HORT 117 Horticulture Seminar Mike Richardson, University of Arkansas “Can Turfgrasses Survive in a World with Less Water?”
Thursday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m. Grafting workshop, taught by Peter Hirst. Lake County Extension office, Crown Point, IN. https://extension.purdue.edu/lake/Pages/article.aspx?intItemID=9642
Thursday, April 16 Community- Based, Service-Learning Project LA227- Planting Design Studio and Professor Melinda Appold will be working with the City of Lafayette's Economic Development office and local business owners to create Parklet designs at six
locations in the Arts and Market district of downtown Lafayette. We will hold a community charette with local business owners and will present the final products, gallery style, at the MatchBox - 17 South Sixth Street Suite X on Thursday, April 23rd from 1:30 to 3:15 pm. Please mark your calendars and come see the contribution that our HLA students are making to the fabric of downtown Lafayette.
Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. Fruit extension meeting at Sunrise Orchards, Goshen, IN.
Friday, April 17 at 5:00 p.m. at Jake’s HLA Friday Social – join in conversation and networking
The Landscape Architecture Program’s 50th Anniversary celebration will take place Saturday, April 18th. A number of exciting activities will take place throughout the day, including Alumni events, a luncheon, a building open house, and more. W. William Weeks, president of the national Conservation Law Center and Professor of Law at Indiana University, will present the 2015 Bookwalter Lecture. Titled “The Definition of Insanity,” the lecture takes place at 4:30 in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall The day is capped off by a celebratory banquet and cocktails starting at 6:30 in the Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. Please visit our website: http://hort.purdue.edu/LA50 If you would like to attend, please return your RSVP card to Angie Gutterman in the Main Office as soon as possible to reserve your space (no later than Tuesday, April 14th, please).
Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Patton. On April 8th, Dr. Aaron Patton was awarded the 2015 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Faculty Mentor Award. The award was graduate student nominated and selected by the PGSG.
Blast from the past!! The attached photo was taken by the Lafayette Journal and Courier on April 6, 1995 for an article about a new book published by Purdue University Press called "Possum in the Pawpaw Tree" by Rosie Lerner Purdue Consumer Hort Specialist) and Bev Shaw (HLA Alum). The book is still available for sale through the Purdue Education Store. https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=28-4 Photo Credit: Lafayette Journal & Courier Photo Caption: Bev Shaw (left) and Rosie Lerner
