Emilie Demard left her native France to study agricultural sustainability in Florida. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida based at Indian River Research and Education Center… Read More
It all started with the Four O’clock flowers young Egem Özbudak would study as a toddler growing up in Izmir, Turkey. The bursts of velvety purple and periwinkle-colored flowers studded with long red asterisks or yellow buttons in… Read More
Foresight is a gift leaders use to advance organizational missions. Anita Neal has for more than two decades led the development of new programs that save money for homeowners and nursery workers as they manage plant disease and… Read More
Paul LaFreniere envisions high value niche crops and fish in his plans for agricultural entrepreneurship. He says the key to sustainable food production is for growers to understand plant pathology. A Jupiter native and University of Florida undergraduate,… Read More
While she was a graduate student at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Sasha-Kay Clarke and her adviser, Dr. Sherline Brown, were hopeful they would find a research scientist who would accept Clarke as a visiting… Read More
FORT PIERCE, Fla.– Fighting plant disease with jet blast sprays is standard practice for citrus growers. But, to spray a fungus to control a single insect that carries a disease-causing pathogen is uncommon. University of Florida Institute of… Read More
Ricardo Lesmes-Vesga left his native village in the Colombian Andes Mountains region to pursue higher education in protected agriculture and citrus advanced production systems. In only a few years, he will have achieved the highest degree education can… Read More
As an undergraduate, Walter Oliver Ac Pangán wrote a business plan to export fine cocoa from northern Guatemala, a venture that could boost his nation’s economy. As an intern with the University of Minnesota, he performed a case… Read More
Sawyer Adams knows how a single college course can change a person’s life. During her first year as a junior at the University of Florida, while enrolled in pre-medical biology courses, she chose a botany course as an… Read More
Digital images captured in Florida’s renowned citrus groves, a research laboratory, and a Chicago farmers market were judged for the University of Florida “2018 UF/IFAS IRREC Citrus Horticulture Lab Digital Photography Contest.” The contest was offered by Rhuanito… Read More
