Purdue Agronomy

Team “GEMS” Wins SyDAg 2026 Hackathon IoT4Ag Track

Sajad Jamshidi (postdoc), Yasas Gamagedara (postdoc), and Dipesh Giri (PhD student) from Dr. Sidd Paul’s GEMS lab won first place in the IoT4Ag track of the 2026 Symposium of Digital Agriculture (SyDAg) Hackathon.

The Department of Agronomy is pleased to welcome Amanda Line to our department as a Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Education beginning September 14. We are excited to welcome Amanda and look forward to the experience and enthusiasm she will bring to our Ag Education program.

We are so excited to have our undergraduate students back on campus! Monday, we welcomed students with First Day of Class pictures and on Thursday the department hosted a Soda Bar! Thank you to all who showed up and we hope you made a new friend! Excited for a fun semester!

The Department of Agronomy welcomed 12 new graduate students at our Fall 2026 Graduate Student Orientation, including nine masters students and three PhD students. Our incoming students to learn more about the department, grad program resources, and the Agronomy community.