Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology - Graduate Student Organization

Check out this recent article featuring our own BeKa Leuschen-Kohl (Iyer-Pascuzzi Lab)!

Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology

Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC) collaborates with Purdue Student Farm to continue Three Sisters garden In 2022, the Purdue Student Farm collaborated with the Purdue Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC) to establish the Purdue NAECC Three Sisters Garden. A Three Sisters garden refers to the planting of main agricultural crops used by indigenous peoples of North America: maize, pole....

Hi! Help support the BPP-GSO by participating in Purdue Day of Giving! It is a great opportunity to show off your Purdue spirit. It is really simple to participate in. Complete one of the four challenges listed below and submit your phone to the link. Submissions are due Sunday, April 23rd at 11:59 pm.
Challenges
Most unique photo with Purdue Day of Giving Logo
Most Creative Purdue Day of Giving selfie
Most creative picture of your kid(s) in Purdue Gear
Most creative picture of your pet(s) in Purdue Gear

Submit link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccRjkSbVhGw-XnxjHWKVh7aCWSwxcXv0DG1W9_WaeGItEaIg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Spring Fest is only 3 days away!! Come visit our tent and support the BPP GSO!!

Volunteer needed !!! 📢 Please sign up to earn up to $100 💵 for professional development costs!

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BTSPiT_zQF57HdwjlcOPF1QdxGQMWsUbSBjUcwZ2HRk/edit =0

Career Development Series: Extension

Please join us for our Extension "Speed Dating" Q&A with the wonderful panel of speakers, all with a successful career in Extension. Coffee and lunch will be provided! Please register using the link above so we can get a headcount for food!

It's election time! The poll will close this Friday at 11:59pm, so vote before then! 🗳️

All week we have reserved a few hours of the conference room for study sessions! Come by, grab some snacks and coffee, and work on whatever you need to work on in a quiet focused environment :) (plus, FREE COFFEE 💃☕)

Enjoy lunch, on us! 🍝🥖☕ We are hosting a Graduate Student Appreciation Lunch! Catered by Olive Garden!! 🫒🌿 Afterwards, free coffee!

📣BPP Graduate Student Appreciation Week is here!!! We're starting the festivities with a WAFFLE PARTY 🧇!
Join us for coffee break and Build your own Waffle :) The waffle bar will remain open past coffee break until 12pm

Everything will be provided, but BYO Mug got coffee break!

The BPP-GSO is holding elections! If you or someone you know wants to be on the GSO board, nominate!! Deadline for nominations is December 4th at 11:59pm.

Being part of the GSO board is a wonderful opportunity for leadership, networking, and event organization. Plus, it looks great on your CV :)

For details on each position, please refer to the email with the doc of position descriptions, or DM us!

Thanks to our panel of wonderful speakers! They gave out some incredible advice, that we will compile with some additional resources and make available to our students!

Career Development: Academia
Last but not least, our guest Dr. Jen Wisecaver! She has had more of a traditional pathway than our other guests, so she would be a great source for those of you who want that!

Meet her on Oct 31 in WSLR 116 from 3-4pm !

Career Development: Academia
Our next guest speaker is Dr. Morgan Furze! She is the newest professor out of our speakers so she can provide a lot of insight into the hiring process and what it's like to be a fresh PI

Come meet her on Oct 31 in WSLR 116 from 3-4pm!

Career Development: Academia
Our first guest: Dr. Neil Knobloch! He has the most professor/teaching experience out of all of our guest speakers!

Meet him on October 31 in WSLR 116, 3-4pm

Career Development Series: Academia 👩‍🎓
Join us on Halloween and meet our guest professors to learn about what it's like to work in academia! And stay tuned throughout this week, we will be posting profiles for each of our speakers so you can get to know them a little before meeting them:) They each have a different background and career path, but ended up in the same place, here at Purdue!

Our botany grad students had a great time at the corn maze! Exploring the corn with our friends in AGRY was so much fun 🌽 And everybody made it out! Or did they.....

Carve pumpkins with us! With the BPP carving contest just around the corner, let's get into the competitive spirit, together 👻 carving tools and gloves will be provided. BYOP 🎃🎃

Save the date for the 2022 Purdue Graduate Student Plant Science Symposium sponsored by Corteva Agriscience

November 18th, 2022

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Feeling stressed? We have the solution for you! Happy hour this Thursday @ brokerage brewing co! 🍻

Our Summer Picnic was a success! I hope everyone had as much fun as I did! 🥰☀️

If you tie-dyed a shirt, they will be ready by the end of the week. If you don't hear from us or your GSO president by next weekend, DM me!

The Summer Picnic has a NEW LOCATION!!! We will be holding it in LILY 1-425 due to rain. We will have all the same activities except soccer. Excited to see everyone tomorrow!

Join us for Happy Hour! 🍻August 18th, 6pm @ The Spot Tavern. Lets welcome the new students and enjoy the last week without classes!

The Summer Picnic is back!! ☀️ And better than ever! Please register using the link above!! (If you registered before, you need to RE REGISTER!!)

The biggest event of the Summer is here! Join us for our Summer Picnic ☀️🧺🥖
There will be food, games, and my personal favorite: tie dying!!! Please register (it's free!!) using the link (tinyurl.com/gso-picnic)

Friends and Family are welcome!!

Kick back and relax with us at Brokerage Brewery next Thursday!! We all deserve a break with how things have been going, don't y'all agree? 🍻

Join us June 30th for a BOWLING NIGHT!!!🎳 We have 4 lanes reserved at the PMU Union Rack and Roll! Unwind, throw some strikes (or spares if you're like me), and enjoy some of the pizza and food that the Rack and Roll has to offer :)

Take a break, on us! Enjoy some coffee☕ bagels🥯 and donuts🍩 this Wednesday at 10am in LILY 1-436!

Here's a break down of the events for the rest of June! We have a lot going on this Wednesday, but the most important thing is our Town Hall!! So if you had to choose, come and voice your opinion in LILY 3-102 🗣