Category: Academics

Leader, visionary, champion for science, friend to deliver York lecture

by Scott Angle

April 26, 2023

If you come to hear Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young deliver our York lecture next week, you’ll be inspired by someone I consider a visionary, a champion for agricultural science, a trailblazer and an anti-hunger crusader. I also consider her ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, Health & Nutrition, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Equity, Infrastructure, Research, UF/IFAS, USDA, York Lecture

Women’s history month: Madeline Mellinger

by Scott Angle

March 15, 2023

Madeline Mellinger had only about a year of experience working with growers in the Everglades Agricultural Area when they asked her to serve as their adviser on pest management. During that year she had established their trust through consistent ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, Crops, EVENTS, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Everglades, History, IFAS, IPM, UF

The Story Written on Our Walls

by Scott Angle

February 22, 2023

Because of the era and the color of her skin, Pauline Lawrence had to do more than make discoveries to amass a distinguished scientific career. She had to make history. Lawrence arrived in Gainesville in 1969, just 11 years after UF had admitted ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS
Tags: Black History, Entomology, Mentors, Philanthropy, Research, TREC

Celebrating John Woeste

by Scott Angle

January 25, 2023

Congratulations to an Extension legend. As a high school student, John Woeste had no specific aspirations beyond graduation until a 4-H program brought him to the University of Kentucky campus for a week. He was repeatedly told he would be ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Alpha Gamma Rho, Dinner Of Distinction, Extension, Hall Of Fame

The gift of science

by Scott Angle

December 14, 2022

Science is among the greatest of gifts. It’s a gift to those of us privileged to advance it daily, whose job description is to make the world a better place. Your work makes a difference! Some of you do it through discovery, others through ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Livestock, UF/IFAS
Tags: Economics, IFAS, Livestock, USAID

Thanks for teams that keep our food safe

by Scott Angle

November 21, 2022

Last year we needed someone fluent in USDA-speak and nimble enough to juggle 26 side conversations simultaneously. Fortunately, we already employed her. Meri Nantz works in Food Science and Human Nutrition as a research administrator ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Food Safety, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Volunteer/Training
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Food Safety, Food Science, Research, Research Administration, Thanksgiving, UF/IFAS

Promoting the promoted

by Scott Angle

August 9, 2022

Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster. Her work is so important to ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Citrus, Innovation, Peanuts, Promotion, Research, Tenure

Taking the cake

by Scott Angle

May 31, 2022

The idea was prompted by a bakeoff. Use the discards from one kind of food and reuse them to make a snack cake just a little healthier. It’s the kind of research project Dr. Andrew MacIntosh—Dr. Mac to students and colleagues—leads ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS
Tags: College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Food Science, J. Scott Angle, Research, Students

A culture of nomination

by Scott Angle

February 18, 2022

We’ve had an encouraging surge in new American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows in recent years. In my opinion, this is not because we’re suddenly doing fellow-level science. I believe it indicates our reputation ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, UF/IFAS, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Awards, Horticultural Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Plant Pathology, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Soil And Water Sciences, UF/IFAS, Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

Breeding new crops and a new generation of plant breeders

by Scott Angle

January 24, 2022

The UF/IFAS team that has released more than 250 fruit, vegetable and other plant cultivars in the past decade is getting even stronger. Seven budding scientists from around the world arrived in Florida in August to work with Plant Breeders ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Curriculum, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Blueberries, CALS, EREC, Forages, GCREC, Lettuce, Ph.D., Plant Breeding, Small Grains, Strawberries, Tomatoes, TREC, UF/IFAS

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