Vero Beach native Jonathan Capen is in pursuit of a research science career to help protect crops that have for so long brought economic prosperity to the area he calls home. At 21, Capen has chosen a career… Read More
Sena Demirden, 21, has her career ambitions on target. A visiting scholar from Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University in Turkey, Demirden’s career aspiration is to work as a research scientist in biological control, with expertise in the application of natural… Read More
University of Florida officials recognized a team of research scientists with a High Impact Research Publication award for an article published in the May 2018 edition of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, an international scholarly science journal. The publication,… Read More
AIR POTATO BEETLES AT WORK Bernadette Stange leaned backward like a palm tree yielding to wind, balancing herself on the forest floor under a dome of 2-story high pine trees tangled with ropes of vines dressed in polished… Read More
Writer: Ken Gioeli The public is invited to release an insect approved by a federal agency against one of Florida’s most invasive vines–the air potato. The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences St Lucie County… Read More
An aspiring scientist and native of Haiti, Sharpton Budji Toussaint recently arrived at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Indian River Research and Education Center. Sharpton will serve as a visiting scholar in Alan Wright’s… Read More
