Category: Agriculture

Guzman Finds New Appreciation for Agricultural Policy at AFA Policy Institute

by Jessica Czipulis
December 7, 2023

In September, Lana Guzman, UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) sophomore, attended Agriculture Future of America’s (AFA) Policy Institute. Guzman, an agricultural education and communication student, was selected to ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: AFA, Agricultural Education And Communication, Agricultural Policy, Professional Development, VP Promise

Student completes internship on Capitol Hill

by Olivia Doyle
December 29, 2021

UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences senior Nathalie Yoder is studying agricultural education and communication with a specialization in communication and leadership development. This past fall semester, Yoder completed a joint ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Agricultural Education And Communication, Intern, VP Promise

Resources for Public Engagement and Outreach

by Katie Stofer
April 7, 2021

Here's another oldie-but-goodie pulled from pages as IFAS migrates blogs. These are some of the public engagement with science (aka science outreach or informal science education or science communication) resources I have found in my day. Public ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Public Engagement, Public Engagement With Science

Agritourism Resources for Florida Extension and beyond

by Katie Stofer
March 31, 2021

So my IFAS blog is moving ... sort of. I have several pages I've created over the last few years that I'm re-posting now as actual blog posts. This post covers agritourism-related resources for Extension agents, producers, and other educators ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources
Tags: Agritourism, Public Engagement

Finding Solutions for Florida’s Agriculture Impacted by COVID-19

by Nick Place
April 2, 2020

Florida farmers are used to uncertainty. Usually, this uncertainty has to do with producing the crop itself. Freezes and hurricanes can wipe out a year’s investment overnight, while longer-term scourges like drought, disease and pest infestations ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Covid-19, Covid19, Promote

CALS Graduating Student Profile: Marlena Moore

by Zoe
December 11, 2019

Marlena Moore always wanted to be a part of agriculture. With an affinity for numbers, majoring in food and resource economics was a perfect fit. Moore wanted to stay close to home for college, which she was able to accomplish by completing ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Money Matters, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Cals, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Food And Resource Economics, Plant City, Uf/ifas Cals At Plant City

Do you know a farmer … a scientist … a military member? Maybe not. But it matters, especially for inspiring youth to pursue STEM careers.

by Katie Stofer
August 16, 2019

My work aims to improve public engagement with science. To me, that means I am trying to bring scientists together with stakeholders so that together, they can combine their expertises and concerns to address problems on which science can have ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Work & Life
Tags: Ag-stem, Career, Diversity, Stem

$58 million … is it a lot or not?

by Katie Stofer
August 14, 2018

Well, it depends. $58 million is what NASA estimates a trip around the moon as a SpaceX tourist would cost. For most people, it's out of reach compared to our median U.S. incomes of $59 thousand in 2017, or about 1000 times less than the cost ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Curriculum, Natural Resources, Professional Development
Tags: Data Visualization, Public Engagement With Science, Science Communication, Science Outreach

Why I work to get more everyday people and scientists engaged with each other: Inspiration from Seth Godin for #sciengage

by Katie Stofer
November 5, 2017

My sister brought Seth Godin's blog to my attention a few months ago. He writes about, among other things, "changing everything." Though at first glance it is not related to my work as it is really about business and marketing primarily, I have ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: About Me, Public Engagement

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