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Highlights...
- Cover Story:
Wine program uncorks potential - Unretired:
90-year-old keeps up appearances - Alumni Profile:
"Cowboy Kodiak" has seen the world - Distinguished Ag Alums
- Interim department heads assume jobs permanently
- Aloha ag alums
- Common chair, but uncommon gesture
- 4-H leader Ed Frickey dies
- Spring fest 2005
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Photo by Tom Campbell |
Photo from the J.C. Allen archives |
| Some soils go through a lot before they are used in the Purdue greenhouses. Research nematologist Jamal Fagihi, PhD ’83, pumps steam into a wagonload of dirt at the nematology lab (left photo). The 180-degree steam kills insects, weed seeds and undesirable organisms in the soil. It is a process that probably was familiar on a smaller scale to the agronomy department of 1930. In this J.C. Allen photo (at right), agronomy department faculty member Dr. Mains (in suit) and his assistants monitor wheat varieties infected with rust. | |
