Agricultural and Biological Engineering

From Ethiopian Fields to Florida Labs: One Student’s Agritech Journey

by Samantha Jones
January 15, 2026

In a world marked by anomalous weather, population growth, and shrinking arable land, the demand for reliable food production has never been more urgent. At the University of Florida’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Agriculture, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biological Engineering

Coding the Future of Food- a Model that Encompasses the Whole Field

by Samantha Jones
January 9, 2026

“When people think of food, they think it comes from Publix, or McDonald’s,“ Gerrit Hoogenboom, Ph.D. muses, “but in order for the food to get there, it needs to be grown or produced by farmers” Most people think of agriculture ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agriculture, AI, Crop Modeling

Fruitful Seeds: Ziynet Boz, Ph.D. Shares Collaboration with Global Food Systems Institute (GFSI)

by Samantha Jones
December 1, 2025

Ziynet Boz, Ph.D. started as faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) at an interesting time. In October 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic’s most isolating era, Boz began navigating her new role ... READ MORE

Category: Academics
Tags: Research, UF IFAS

Congratulations to Dr. Vijaya Gopal Kakani on his appointment as Associate Director of Research of the Global Food Systems Institute (GFSI).

by Samantha Jones
October 6, 2025

Dr. Kakani brings a distinguished record of academic leadership, research excellence, and international collaboration to this role. At the University of Florida, he served as Professor and Chair of the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, currently ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agriculture
Tags: GFSI, India

ABE Expands Citizen Science Effort to Tackle Household Food Waste

by Samantha Jones
July 28, 2025

Write up by: Ziynet Boz, Ph.D. As part of the national Food Waste Challenge funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the Kroger Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation, the ABE Department has completed its second ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Packaging Engineering

Remote Connections- Jasmeet Judge, Ph.D. Builds Bridges with India

by Samantha Jones
June 13, 2025

At the beginning of the year, ABE’s Jasmeet Judge, Ph.D. was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Kalam-Climate Scholarship to travel to India for five months in collaboration with two prominent Indian Universities to promote and implement cutting-edge ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Professional Development, UF/IFAS
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Award, Engineering, GFSI, India, Teaching, UF IFAS, UFABE

UF Professor Works to Ease Impacts of “Forever Chemicals”

by Samantha Jones
April 30, 2025

From the nonstick Teflon pans that make cooking a breeze to the stain-resistant carpet that keeps our homes looking new, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been heralded as miracle workers in our daily lives. However, beneath ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Biological Engineering

ABE Design II Student Design Competition Winners Receive Collins Award

by Samantha Jones
April 25, 2025

Each spring, UF ABE Design II student teams present their capstone design projects to faculty and the ABE advisory board. Projects are judged based on their overall use of engineering, science, and mathematics in design solution, sustainability, ... READ MORE

Category: Academics
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Packaging Engineering

$1M FDACS Grant Awarded to ABE’s Vivek Sharma, Ph.D. to Expand STEP

by Samantha Jones
April 4, 2025

UF ABE’s Vivek Sharma, Ph.D. was awarded a $1.3 M grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) – Office of Agricultural Water Policy to expand his extension work in the Florida Stakeholder Engagement Program ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS

Hydrological Modeling and the Blackfeet Nation: A Marriage of Science and Storytelling

by Samantha Jones
March 24, 2025

ABE’s Rio Bonham specializes in hydrological modeling; if you asked him to give an elevator pitch of his work he might say something along the lines of, ‘I use computers to predict where water is going to be’. However, inarguably, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Water
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, AI, UF IFAS, Water

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