On 4-H Day at the Capitol last month, 11-year-old 4-Her Reagan Casler met with Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, six state senators, 10 representatives, and the Hillsborough County district attorney. And she showed off her Gator boots to Commissioner of ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth
By hitching horticulture to health care, we can help heal the world while we feed it. Doctors alone cannot reverse the astonishing current state of affairs: Globally, we spend more treating diet-related disease than we do producing food. I ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth
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/IFASAs 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 Extension