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
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
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
If you're working on a career in public engagement with science ... I’m compiling a set of resources for people looking to get jobs in public engagement with science. (or STEM) or outreach or informal science education or free-choice learning ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
So I just ran my second paid online survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Despite my internet searches of how to do this right and treat participants fairly (there is discussion about whether these are "workers" or research participants and ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
After a devastating earthquake affected millions of people in the country of Haiti in 2010, Haitian-American sophomore Bertrhude Albert wanted to find a way to help. An English major with a desire to provide some relief to the people of Haiti, ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Work & Life
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 & LifeI took on an #extension fellowship in 2015 on citizen science, to promote its use throughout #coopext. This continues to pay dividends, as I am now in the process of taking on my first PhD student advisee, who wants to study citizen science! ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
It's day 1 of our new NIH funded teacher workshop on emerging pathogens: CATALySES. We have 15 high school teachers ready to go for a two-week experience combining content, lab practices, facilities tours, and planning for action research in ... READ MORE
Category: Work & Life