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Carroll named director of phenomics

Purdue University College of Agriculture has named April Carroll the new director of phenomics under the Plant Sciences Research and Education Pipeline initiative.

Karen Plaut, senior associate dean for research and faculty affairs for Purdue Agriculture, announced the appointment this month.

In her new position, she will work with researchers to enable them to take advantage of new high-throughput technology developed for plant phenotyping, or identifying and measuring plant characteristics.

Purdue Agriculture is expanding its capacity in this area through new laboratory and greenhouse facilities and a new Automated Field Phenotyping and Seed Processing building at the college’s Agronomy Farm for Research and Education.

Carroll began the position remotely and will arrive on the West Lafayette campus June 1.