Tag: career

dr. maria portelos-rometo (left) smiles while chatting with a fellow attendee at an extension training event. [credit: uf/ifas extension sarasota county]

A Career with True Community Impact: Dr. Maria Portelos-Rometo Retires After Nearly 18 years


June 3, 2025

On May 31, Dr. Maria Portelos-Rometo retired after a truly impactful career with UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County. Maria joined Sarasota County Extension in October 2007 as the Family Nutrition Program manager, after teaching family and ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching, Work & Life
Tags: Career, Community, Education, Impact, Maria Rometo, Pgm_Admin
Kids with plant pots

UF/IFAS program expands ag education in Florida primary, secondary schools


May 15, 2025

Not every child grows up with a deep understanding of the agricultural systems that supply the food we eat every day. The Florida Teacher Institute, a collaboration of the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and the UF/IFAS ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Aec, Agricultural, Agricultural Education And Communication, Agriculture, Animal Sciences, CALS, Career, Charlotte Emerson, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Curriculum, Entomology, Environmental, Florida Teacher Institute, Food Science, Food Security, IFAS, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Megan Winslow, Mentor, Monique Salazar, Nematology, Peer, Science, Student, Summer, Teacher, Teaching, UF, UF-IFAS, University Of Florida
A family has a picnic lunch by Lake Alice on the UF campus. Image used in the 2014 Extension calendar.

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


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

Employment Opportunity Available


March 11, 2015

Your local Wakulla Extension Office is looking for a temporary Family & Consumers Science Agent this Summer! For more information, please click here...Extension - Family Consumer Science Agent (OPS)   READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Career, Community, Employment, Extension, Families & Consumers, Family, Family And Consumer Sciences, Family Youth & Community Sciences, General Information, Job, Shelley Swenson, Temporary, Wakulla, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

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