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Applied Research in Field Crop Pathology for Indiana, 2021
No full textApplied Research in Field Crop Pathology for Indiana, 2021 serves as a summary of the applied field crop pathology research trials conducted in 2021 under the direction of the Purdue Field Crop Pathology program in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University. In Indiana, there are more than 57,600 farms, 16,000 crop producers, and 900 certified crop advisers, Extension educators, and crop-protection industry representatives who manage more than 11.4 million crop-production acres with a total value of 400 million, making disease identification and management a primary concern. The goal of this book is to share some of the most current, nonbiased, research-based information to address the management of field crop diseases. This data will support individuals engaged in crop production, helping them select effective, sustainable, and economically sound disease-management practices to implement on their farms
Influencing the Meteoric Rise of AI: Centering Ethics, Law, and Society in Urgent Policy Reform
No full textArtificial intelligence (AI) represents a transformative technological advancement with the potential to yield extraordinary societal benefits while simultaneously introducing significant potential harms to individuals, governments, and society. The adoption of AI has outpaced the ability of society to collectively and cohesively respond through the implementation of adequate regulatory guardrails. While AI presents novel benefits and challenges, the broader dynamic of responding to new, uncharted technologies has historical precedence. The article\u27s methodological approach employed empirical research using law articles and policies. As such, the article explores the benefits, challenges, and actual or potential harms in three business sectors: business and finance, human resources, and entertainment and copyright. The authors also examine how the U.S. and international jurisdictions have approached AI and conduct an overview of how the large scientific and technological innovation, the Human Genome Project, considered the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of innovation. Lastly, this article provides recommendations for policy and legal protections that are focused not on government oversight but rather requiring the AI innovators, developers, and business users to analyze the ethical, legal, and social implications themselves and make those analyses available to the public, with potential civil and criminal penalties for ELSI breaches
Working with Local Government Planning Staff: The Need-to-Know Basics
No full textMany civil engineers will need to interact with local government during their careers. Understanding WHAT local government planners do and WHY they do it can make that process much easier to navigate, for all involved
Mushrooms to Mars: Mycoponics™ for Diversified Product Streams in Closed-Loop Environments
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Alumni Spotlight: Jessica Devine
No full textJessica Devine published an article in volume 10 (2020) of the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research during her time spent completing her baccalaureate degree
Integrating Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) into Middle School Agricultural Education: A Practice-Based Approach to Teaching FEW-Nexus Concepts
Get PDFThis abstract presents an innovative approach to teaching food-energy-water (FEW) nexus concepts in rural middle schools using controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Centered at the University of Wyoming Lab School, the project uses a hub-and-spoke model where undergraduate researchers and middle school students prototype small-scale hydroponic systems and develop curriculum materials, which are then shared with five in-service and three pre-service teachers across Wyoming. The approach combines faculty learning communities with entrepreneurial thinking to help resource-constrained rural schools make complex FEW concepts tangible while building capacity for agricultural innovation in their communities
An integrated framework for food-energy-water-nexus education and educational research
Get PDFOur study centers the perspective of practitioners to define and describe FEW-Nexus-based education, identify and describe challenges with FEW-Nexus-based education, and ideate how education research can generate new knowledge to address these challenges. Using artifacts from FEW-Nexus education workshops and existing literature, we developed an integrated framework that can inform both educational practice and educational research. The framework includes ontological (thoughts about the socio-ecological systems aspects of the FEW-Nexus) and epistemological (thoughts about education and educational research of the FEW-Nexus) dimensions. We will next use this framework to probe more deeply into participants’ responses using thematic content analysis
