News Archive
2023
- Big data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes (October 28, 2020)
2020
- Saunders Looks at Impacts of Prescribed Fire on Quality, Economic Value (December 9, 2020)
- Big data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes (October 28, 2020)
- Emerald ash borer puts trees on path to functional Extension (November 5, 2020)
- Improving Growth of Black Walnut (October 2020)
- Seed Propagation Protocol for Pure and Hybrid Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) (Spring 2020)
- From Farm to Forest, Songlin Fei has built a career and better life (October 30, 2020)
- Scott Brundage, HTIRC Advisory Committee Member passed away (Saturday, August 8, 2020)
- Purdue pursues industry hardwood partnerships through NSF-backed center (October 6, 2020 – Purdue Purdue Agriculture News)
- Seed Propagation Protocol for Pure and Hybrid Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) (2020 RNGR)
- Op-ed: Indiana’s yellowwood trees ‘unlike any other on the planet’ (January 12, 2020 – IndyStar)
- The Silent Work of Forests (Purdue College of Agriculture ENVISION Winter 2020)
2019
- Ep. 232 – The Plight of the Butternut (September 29, 2019 – In Defense of Plants)
- Invasive pests kill so many trees each year, it’s equal to 5 million car emissions (August 13, 2019 – Purdue Agriculture News – Brian Walheimer)
- Survey of U.S. forests ties tree-killing insects to climate change (August 16, 2019 – MACH – Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky)
- U.S. forests’ changes are double-edged sword for environment (April 10, 2019 – Purdue Agriculture News – Brian Walheimer)
- Climate drives link between forest biodiversity and productivity (January 23, 2019 – Purdue Agriculture News – Brian Walheimer)
2018
- Purdue experts available to discuss planned timber harvest for Hoosier National Forest (October 30, 2018 – Purdue Agricultural Communications)
- The Fruit of the Gods from an Indiana Tree? (September 5, 2018 in Forestry, Got Nature for Kids, How To)
- The Trees at the Fairgrounds have Officially Come Down (September 13, 2018 – WLFI.com)
- Featured Partnership – Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (2018)
- Dr. Douglass Jacobs received the 2018 Corinne Alexander Spirit of the Land Grant Mission Award (April 2018)
- Dr. Shaneka Lawson, Received the Unsung Diversity Hero Award (April 2018)
- Indiana’s forests are in danger, and the threat: You – By Sarah Bowman Indy Star (February 12, 2018)
2017
- Dr. Anthony Davis, Former HTIRC graduate student, received the 2017 SAF Young Forester Leadership Award. – (2017)
- Trees are moving westward in response to precipitation changes, Purdue University professor reveals – (May 17, 2017)
- Walnuts and the First Forest Farms (March/April 2017)
- New Project Leader announced for the HTIRC (January 9, 2017)
2016
- Purdue Explores Farming Wild Herbal Remedy – By Charlotte Tuggle, WBAA (September 12, 2016)
- Forestry professionals in Indiana are helping create blight-resistant tree: Restoring the Chestnut – By Nick Werner, Outdoor Indiana Magazine May/June 2016, Used with permission. Outdoor Indiana is available by subscription at www.OutdoorIndiana.org (May/June 2016)
- Dr. Charles H. Michler, first Director of HTIRC passes away – (January 19, 2016)
- Professors come home to Georgia to plant live oaks in research plots (jacksonville.com, January 5, 2016)
2015
- No accident: Ancient walnut forests linked to languages, trade routes (Purdue Agriculture News, September 3, 2015.)
2014
- Dr. Shaneka Lawson received the Multicultural Achievement 2014 Director’s Award from the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. This is in recognition of her outstanding contributions and achievements in the area of workforce diversity.
- Purdue researcher leading burn projects to regenerate oak forests (Purdue Today, December 23, 2014.)
- Study: Invasive species can dramatically alter landscapes (Purdue Agriculture News and Purdue Today, December 11, 2014)
- Study: Fungus behind deadly disease in walnut trees mutates easily, complicating control (November 13, 2014)
- Purdue Forestry Farm Named for Former Senator Richard G. Lugar (Purdue Agriculture News, October 30, 2014)
- Hunting gives deer-damaged forests in Indiana state parks a shot at recovery (Purdue Agriculture News, July 9, 2014)
- Will Emerald Ash Borer Survive the Winter? (By John Woodmansee, KPC News.com, March 1, 2014)
2013
- Ag Research Spotlight: Matthew Ginzel – June 2013
2012
- Dr. Michael Jenkins was selected for the 2012 FNR Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
- Lenny Farlee received the 2012 FNR Outstanding Administrative/Professional Staff Member Award
- Professor Shirong Liu, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Forestry, visited HTIRC (October 2012)
- Normal fall foliage expected despite summer’s drought (September 17, 2012)
- Purdue Commercializes Faster Growing Hardwood Trees Called Greatwoods® (April 23, 2012)
2011
- American Chestnut Trees Return to the Hoosier National Forest (USFS Success Stories, May 5, 2011)
- Dogwoods Feeling the Burn by Kim Tingley in the onearth. (April 11, 2011)
- HTIRC Scientist Douglass Jacobs Recognized for Award
2010
- The New Tropical Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center
- Forestry and Natural Resources hosts Senator Lugar
- Thousand Cankers Disease of Black Walnut Recently Identified in Eastern Tennessee
- Smokies program aims to steer students toward career in ecological sciences by Knoxnews.com (August 3, 2010)
- Grad student’s project helps African nation by Journal and Courier (August 3, 2010)
- Purdue study: Fire may be key to reviving dogwoods by the Associated Press (June 17, 2010)
- I’ve Noticed that many of the pin oak trees around town appear to be dying. What’s causing that? by David L. Fishers in the Indianapolis Monthly. Question was answered by Lenny Farlee (2010)
2009
- Jim McKenna was awarded the American Chestnut Foundation’s Volunteer Award at the TACF annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Jim received this award in consideration of all that he has done for TACF above and beyond what might be expected as a result of his position with HTIRC. (November 2009)Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change (June 10, 2009)
- Appointments, honors and activities (April 24, 2009)
- Trading carbon credits worth examining, Purdue expert says (March 5, 2009)
2008
- Purdue helping to remove pollutants using poplars (January 14, 2008)
2007
- Growers bid to revive American chestnut (November 22, 2007)
- Fighting Forest Blights (BioScience November 2007/Vol. 57 N. 10)
- Challenges remain in reintroducing American chestnut (August 21, 2007)
- Return of the King? (Summer 2007)
- Lisa Worthen, PhD student in HTIRC, won the Western Forest Genetics Association “Best Student Poster” (June 2007)
- Charles H. Michler Scholarship for the Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher in Forest Biology (April 15, 2007)
- Schwarzenegger to buy carbon credits for his trips (March 8, 2007)
Prior Years
- Fast-growing trees could take root as future energy source (August 23, 2006)
- Group photo from the HTIRC 2006 Tour of Pike Lumber Company
- Purdue is growing Indiana’s economy (January 8, 2006)
- Will engineered trees be the crop of the future for Indiana? (Fall 2005)
- Purdue scientists seek the perfect urban tree (June 6, 2005)
- Tree DNA fells timber thief (Fall 2004)
- NSF launches one-of-a-kind tree genetics center (September 28, 2004)
- Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist (May 29, 2004)
- Senator Richard Lugar visits HTIRC (May 14, 2004)
- Domesticated tree crops may be the ‘future of forestry’ (May 10, 2004)
- Hardwood tree gift has roots in chance meeting (Fall, 2001)
- Purdue researchers work hard to save hardwood (February 2001)