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Image - Daroub with UF International Center team and collaborators from University of California, Davis and Virginia Tech visiting Jordan in 2013 to assess extension and education programs.

UF/IFAS scientist shares how love for learning led to lifetime of teaching, international work

by Lourdes Mederos
March 23, 2022

BELLE GLADE, Fla – Throughout history, women have played a key role in humanity's scientific advancements. As mentors, innovators and thought leaders, women in science have inspired and empowered countries, communities, women and young girls ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agriculture, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Everglades Research And Education Center, Featured Hot Topic, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, National Women's History Month, Samira Daroub, Soil And Water Sciences Department, UF IFAS Everglades Research And Education Center, UF International Center, UF/IFAS Soil And Water Sciences Department, Water Quality, Women In Science, Women's History Month

Internationally acclaimed scientist to lead UF/IFAS Everglades Research and Education Center

by Lourdes Mederos
February 16, 2022

BELLE GLADE, Fla –Samira Daroub, an internationally acclaimed soil and water scientist and professor, has been named director of the UF/IFAS Everglades Research & Education Center (EREC). The appointment is effective immediately. Daroub ... READ MORE

Category: SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: BMPs, CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Everglades Agricultural Area, Everglades Research And Education Center, Samira Daroub, Soil And Water Sciences Department, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Water Quality
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UF/IFAS scientists tapped to join national research effort advancing phosphorus sustainability, funded by NSF

by Lourdes Mederos
September 12, 2021

Two University of Florida scientists have joined a national research effort to promote phosphorus sustainability across the United States. Together they will work under the funding auspices of the National Science Foundation-Science and ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Everglades Research And Education Center, Jehangir Bhadha, NC State, Sandra Guzmán, Soil And Water Sciences, Soil And Water Sciences Department, UF/IFAS In The News

There’s Plenty to See, Do, Learn at Everglades Research and Education Center: Nov. 7 Open House Joins Community with Faculty, Scientists and Research

by Lourdes Mederos
October 8, 2019

BELLE GLADE, Fla. - Engage in agriculture from the ground up on November 7 from 8 am. to 3 p.m. at the Everglades Research and Education Center (EREC) Open House. The free event is designed to sprout curiosity and awareness from the public about ... READ MORE

Category: Events, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Agriculture, Belle Glade, Community, Corn, Entomophagy, EREC, Everglades Research And Education Center, Hydroponics, Open House, Sugar Cane, UF-IFAS, Water Quality, Wildlife

UF assistant professor wins national agronomy award for innovative sugarcane research

by BLOGS.IFAS
December 19, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida plant scientist, who has created varieties of sugarcane that are grown across more than 90 percent of Florida and in several Central American countries, has been given a national award for his innovative ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agronomy, Everglades Research And Education Center, IFAS, News, Sugarcane

UF/IFAS hosting March 30 FDA seminar on Food Safety Modernization Act rules

by BLOGS.IFAS
March 1, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is holding one of only five national educational seminars on the Food and Drug Administration’s new final food safety rules. The FDA’s Food Safety ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Everglades Research And Education Center, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida

UF/IFAS researchers find shallow flooding reduces a major rice pest

by BLOGS.IFAS
January 29, 2016

BELLE GLADE, Fla. --- University of Florida scientists at the Everglades Research and Education Center have found an important way to control the destructive rice water weevil, one of the major pests in rice production. UF Institute of Food ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Everglades Research And Education Center, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Rice, University Of Florida

FDA cancels food safety rules event in Belle Glade

by BLOGS.IFAS
January 25, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cancelled an educational seminar on the FDA’s new final food safety rules, which had been scheduled for Jan. 27 at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural sciences’ Everglades ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Food Safety, UF/IFAS, Work & Life
Tags: Everglades Research And Education Center, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida

Nuessly named director of the Everglades Research and Education Center

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 8, 2015

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Gregg Nuessly, who has served as interim director of the University of Florida’s Everglades Research and Education Center in Belle Glade since November 2013, has now been named to that post permanently. “Gregg is ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Everglades Research And Education Center, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida

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