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July 7, 2025

Harsh Pathak: Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

All the staff and professors have open-door policies so you don’t need to be hesitant to go in and ask for help.

- Harsh Pathak, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
June 23, 2025

ABE Alumni: ABE alumni drive hydraulic innovation at John Deere

Michael Holland (BSME ’05, MS agricultural engineering ’07, PhD agricultural engineering ’12), James Bartlett (BS agricultural engineering ’08) and Greg Long (BS agricultural engineering ’07, MS agricultural engineering ’09) are the minds behind the hydraulics on the prototype John Deere E-Power battery electric tractor.
April 3, 2025

Kaur: Purdue researchers show common bacterial assay is unreliable

Kaur, a PhD student in Associate Professor Mohit Verma’s agricultural and biological engineering lab, recently published a paper about how propidium monoazide assays (PMA)—the solution many labs have used to differentiate between living and dead cells—are currently inaccurate but could be improved upon for the future.
March 17, 2025

Sankar: More ideas for new pharmaceuticals, faster

Enzymes – proteins that speed chemical reactions – are commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry. But figuring out which enzymes might be useful can be a slow process. Assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering Karthik Sankaranarayanan has developed an algorithm for speeding up the process.
February 17, 2025

Hinkle: Seeing the Century: A Life in Agricultural Engineering

Hinkle has recently enjoyed returning to campus to tour the new ABE building. Its renovation and expansion, dedicated in 2021, consolidated the department — by then scattered across numerous locations — into a single building on the site of the 1929 structure Hinkle knew as the Agricultural Engineering Building.
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