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4-H Youth Grow for the Community at the Public Library Food Forest


June 9, 2023

Wakulla 4-H members started a Food Forest Garden at the Wakulla County Public Library in 2020.  Adult volunteers and youth volunteers embraced an outdoor activity with a purpose. The club studied permaculture and the layered garden concept ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Clubs & Volunteers, Community Volunteers, Crops, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: 4-H, Cooking, Food Forest, Gardening, Grants, Rain Barrels, Youth

University of Florida/IFAS awarded over $16 million in research grants to fight citrus disease


November 9, 2022

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. -- University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences faculty have secured over $16 million in new funding to advance research projects to combat the deadly citrus greening disease that threatens the Florida ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus, Citrus Greening Disease, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Fernando Alferez, Grants, HLB, J. Scott Angle, John Chater, Jude Grosser, Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, Lukasz Stelinski, Megan Dewdney, Nian Wang, Rootstocks, Ruth-borger, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, USDA-NIFA, Zhonglin Mou

University of Florida awarded key federal grants to continue fight against citrus greening

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October 22, 2020

By RUTH BORGER LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers hope to discover new methods to help citrus growers fight the deadly citrus greening (or Huanglongbing) disease with cost effective, long-term sustainable treatments with ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Amit Levy, Asian Citrus Psyllid, Bryony Bonning, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Department Of Microbiology And Cell Science, Entomology And Nematology, Grants, Huanglongbing, Michael Rogers, National Institute Of Food And Agriculture, Plant Pathology, Rootstocks, Scions, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Zhonglin Mou

Life in space – UF/IFAS faculty awarded three grants for further exploration

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October 15, 2020

The NASA Biological and Physical Sciences Division’s Space Biology Program recently announced 18 grants that will advance our understanding of how living systems respond to life in space. Three of those grants were awarded to UF/IFAS faculty ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Department Of Microbiology And Cell Science, Grants, Horticultural Sciences, Horticultural Sciences Department, Mars, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, NASA

UF/IFAS faculty to use $141M in research funding to improve corn, manage citrus greening, suppress mosquito-borne diseases and more

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September 2, 2020

Scientists at UF/IFAS are using this year’s allotment of $141 million in research funding to develop better sweet corn, improve cow-calf breeding, make further progress toward controlling citrus greening disease and more. Robert Gilbert, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Animal Sciences, Citrus Greening Disease, Cow-calf, Funding, Grants, Horticultural Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Mosquitoes, Nifa, Peppers, Plant Pathology, Research, Robert Gilbert, Sweet Corn, USDA
FSHN/IFT Awards 2018 Group

FSHN/IFT Awards Night 2018


April 10, 2018

The FSHN/IFT awards are in honor of leaders in IFT and recognize students with a strong academic and research records as well as evident leadership and professional potential, particularly in the area of Food Science. Richard F. Matthews Memorial ... READ MORE

Category: Events
Tags: Adam Baker, Albert J “Sandy” Sanders, Allison Chandler, Amy Jones, Awards, Bob Olson Graduate Scholarship, Brian Wada, Catherine Escoffier, Catherine Lower, Christina Bracey, Fshn Awards, FSHN Graduate Awards, Grady W. Chism, Grants, Huda Aziz, Ift Awards, Janna Underhill Scholarship, Jasmine Ricke, Jayna Goldstein, Jessica Lee, Jing Bai, Jr. Memorial Scholarship, Kalee Eichelberger, Lacey Mead, Mario Guadalupe, Max Van Belkum, Megan Engel, Natalie Lux, Neha P. Patel Memorial Travel Grant, Peter Chiarelli, Priscilla Sinclair, Rachel Gordon, Raymond A. Dennison Memorial Scholarship, Richard F. Matthews Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Robert P. Bates Graduate Scholarship, Ronald H. Schmidt Professional Service Graduate Scholarship, Ruiqi Li, Savanna Curtis, Sawsan Abed, Scholarships, Sean Krygger, Shaomin Zhao, Shi Feng, Stephen Koltum, The Earl Wilmot Hartt Scholarship, The Eugene E. Woodward Memorial Scholarship, The Florida Dairy Products Association Scholarship, The Florida Section IFT Innovation Award, The Food Machinery Corporation (FMP) Graduate Scholarship, The Howard Appledorf Memorial Scholarship, The Virginia Dare Award, William L. And Agnes F. Brown Graduate Scholarship, Ying Fan

UF/IFAS researchers awarded $10.5M to work on citrus greening resistance or tolerance

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January 19, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- With citrus greening devastating Florida’s $8.6 billion-a-year citrus industry, three University of Florida scientists will use $10.52 million in federal grants to study ways to help growers cope with the disease, including ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Arnold Schumann, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Grants, Michael Rogers, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, News, Nian Wang, Nifa, Resistance, Soil And Water Sciences, Tolerance, Zhonglin Mou

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