In the darkness of night, with only headlamps guiding the way and the crunch of boots on gravel breaking the silence, doctoral student Jan Lenc climbed nearly 15,000 feet to the summit of Mt. Wilhelm in Papua New Guinea. After a grueling nighttime ... READ MORE
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Congratulations to our undergraduate and graduate students who were awarded a 2024-2025 CALS Scholarship! This year the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) awarded $661,735 in scholarships and fellowships to 401 undergraduate students ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is pleased to announce that Alexandra Goetz has joined its staff as the undergraduate student academic advisor. Ali's background is in higher education and community outreach. Most recently ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) is delighted to announce this year’s recipients of the Nadeau Graduate Research Award, a grant established by the Robin E. Nadeau fund to support research and education in SNRE. SNRE ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Professional Development
The term ‘sustainable agriculture’ involves boosting food production while conserving habitats and natural resources and reducing reliance on pesticides and fertilizers. While experts agree there is still much to learn to support ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Forests, Livestock, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
During Shelby Beck’s last semester as a UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) student, she completed an environmental policy internship. Through Florida Sea Grant and Loop Legislative Internship funding, Beck interned ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Teaching,
Watching giant anteaters eat, sleep, play and give piggyback rides to their pups was part of this summer’s fieldwork for Ana Yoko Ykeuti Meiga, a PhD student in SNRE’s Interdisciplinary Ecology program. Ana accompanied a team of researchers ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Conservation, UF/IFAS Teaching, WildlifeThe School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Nadeau Graduate Research Award, which supports graduate students pursuing their master’s or doctoral degrees in Interdisciplinary ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Natural Resources
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is pleased to announce that Tracy Moorman has joined its staff as the undergraduate academic advisor. Tracy comes to the University of Florida from Santa Fe College, where she worked as an ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
Since 2014, Florida's Coral Reef has been fighting an outbreak of a communicable, waterborne disease called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Just released, the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease & Response on Florida's Coral ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife