On August 22, we begin a new year of delivering on our oldest mission. We make perhaps our farthest-reaching impact through teaching because in so doing we prepare others to make great impact. Every instructor as well as every staff member ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Curriculum, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS
Dear UF/IFAS Family, Thank you to all who prepared for and responded to Hurricane Debby last week. It wasn’t without some damage, but we have emerged from Hurricane Debby with all employees safe and with another tremendous response from ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES
The York Distinguished Lecturer Series continues this fall with a joint presentation by conceptual visual artist Mel Chin and agronomist Rufus Chaney. Chin and Chaney will tell the story of how art helped advance a then-new green remediation ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS
I’m proud to announce the class of 2024 UF/IFAS faculty who have earned promotion, tenure and permanent status. This cohort exemplifies the culmination of years of hard work, commitment, scholarship, service and achievement. Promotion, ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Dear UF/IFAS Family: Nearly four years ago, you embraced a new leader who hadn’t even interviewed for the job on campus. Because the pandemic triggered a shutdown in the middle of the senior vice president search, I was the only ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS
As I was reflecting upon the end of hurricane season, I thought about the many people and facilities UF/IFAS is entrusted with, how they can be unexpectedly in harm’s way, and what it takes to keep this operation moving. Someone ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, WORK & LIFE
We’ve had a remarkable amount of practice helping people and places in a hurricane’s path, this time in the Big Bend and Live Oak. Jeanna Mastrodicasa again coordinated relief efforts before, during and after Idalia, this time at ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, Crops, Disaster Preparation, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, WORK & LIFEIf you come to hear Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young deliver our York lecture next week, you’ll be inspired by someone I consider a visionary, a champion for agricultural science, a trailblazer and an anti-hunger crusader. I also consider her ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, Health & Nutrition, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionMadeline Mellinger had only about a year of experience working with growers in the Everglades Agricultural Area when they asked her to serve as their adviser on pest management. During that year she had established their trust through consistent ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, Crops, EVENTS, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, WaterBecause of the era and the color of her skin, Pauline Lawrence had to do more than make discoveries to amass a distinguished scientific career. She had to make history. Lawrence arrived in Gainesville in 1969, just 11 years after UF had admitted ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS