Department of Agronomy (Graduate)

Return to: Graduate Studies

Website URL:

https://ag.purdue.edu/agry/GraduateProgram/Pages/default.aspx

Department/School Head:

Ronald F. Turco

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

A Masters (non-thesis), Masters (thesis) and Doctoral degrees are all offered.

The Agronomy graduate program involves training future leaders in agronomic and environmental improvement through integrated teaching, research, and engagement.  Efforts ​in agronomic and environmental improvement center around three areas: ​​​​Crops & the Changing Environment; Soil & Land Use; and Water, Air & Climate.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Joe Anderson
Laura Bowling
Sylvie Brouder
James Camberato
Melba Crawford
Gebisa Ejeta
Richard Grant
Yiwei Jiang
Keith Johnson
Cliff Johnston
Eileen Kladivko
Linda Lee
Jinxin Ma
Cindy Nakatsu
Robert Nielsen
Suresh Rao
Torbert Rocheford
Darrell Schulze
Lee Schweitzer
Gary Steinhardt
Mitch Tuinstra
Ronald Turco
Jeffrey Volenec
Tony Vyn

Associate Professor

Shalamar Armstrong
Davide Cammarano
Shaun Casteel
Mohsen Mohammadi
Katy Martin Rainey
Cankui Zhang

Assistant Professor

Jason Ackerson
Daniel Quinn
Diane Wang

Programs

• Agronomy, PHD

• Agronomy, MS

Courses

• AGRY 50500 - Forage Management
• AGRY 51000 - Turfgrass Science
• AGRY 51100 - Population Genetics
• AGRY 51200 - Integrated Turfgrass Systems
• AGRY 51400 - Environmental Stress Management For Turfgrass
• AGRY 51500 - Plant Mineral Nutrition
• AGRY 51800 - Plant Physiology And Biotechnology Research Techniques
• AGRY 52000 - Principles And Methods Of Plant Breeding
• AGRY 52500 - Crop Physiology And Ecology
• AGRY 53000 - Advanced Plant Genetics
• AGRY 53500 - Boundary Layer Meteorology
• AGRY 53600 - Environmental Biophysics
• AGRY 54000 - Soil Chemistry
• AGRY 54400 - Environmental Organic Chemistry
• AGRY 54500 - Remote Sensing Of Land Resources
• AGRY 55000 - Field Crops Breeding Techniques
• AGRY 55500 - Soil And Plant Analysis
• AGRY 56000 - Soil Physics
• AGRY 56500 - Soils And Landscapes
• AGRY 58000 - Soil Microbiology
• AGRY 58200 - Environmental Fate Of Pesticides
• AGRY 58500 - Soils And Land Use
• AGRY 59600 - Professional Presentations
• AGRY 59700 - Communicating With The Public
• AGRY 59800 - Special Problems
• AGRY 60000 - Genomics
• AGRY 60100 - Introduction To Graduate Research
• AGRY 60500 - Advanced Plant Breeding
• AGRY 61100 - Quantitative Genetics
• AGRY 62400 - Plant Ecophysiology
• AGRY 63500 - Micrometeorology
• AGRY 64100 - Statistical Hydrology
• AGRY 64900 - Molecular Microbial Ecology
• AGRY 65000 - Clay Mineralogy
• AGRY 69600 - Agronomy Graduate Seminar
• AGRY 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• AGRY 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

Return to: Graduate Studies