HLA Happenings

September 19-26, 2015

September 19, 2015 - 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Family Day - Welcome students and their families in the Pfendler Second Floor Gallery. Dean Akridge
will address the group at 10:45 a.m. Refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday, September 23 from 10-11 am, 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, September 23 from 2:30-4:15 pm, Lilly Nature Center
The Purdue students in Professor Mindy Appolds Landscape Architecture LA325 have been busy
imagining a landscape design for the Summit Street gathering space in the Northwestern Heights
Neighborhood. Please come and share your comments and help in their learning process.
September 24. Bruce Bordelon, Paul Howard and others from the Purdue Wine Grape Team will hold a
Fall Workshop. Attendees will tour viticulture research plots at the Meigs Horticulture Research Farm
and enology labs in the Nelson Hall of Food Science.
HLA Tailgate lunch September 25 from 12 noon to 1 pm in the Hort. Garden under the E.C. Stevenson
Pavilionplease bring your favorite tailgate dish and drink.
Steve Weller just returned from a 2 week trip to Nigeria working on cassava weed management with
IITA on a Gates funded 5 year project. Upon his return, he will be on the Purdue campus for the week of
September 20 before returning to Michigan for completion of his sabbatical leave.
The Purdue Student Farm will be vending at two local farmers markets May-October
Wednesdays 4-7 pm West Lafayette Farmers Market Cumberland Park
Thursdays 11-3 pm Purdue Farmers Market Memorial Mall
https://www2.ag.purdue.edu/programs/studentfarm/Pages/Welcome.aspx