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
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
If 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, WaterCongratulations to an Extension legend. As a high school student, John Woeste had no specific aspirations beyond graduation until a 4-H program brought him to the University of Kentucky campus for a week. He was repeatedly told he would be ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
In all the traveling I’ve done in my career, I’ve never been greeted with finish-line tape, “Chariots of Fire” playing on a public address system, a 4-H’er hanging a medal around my neck and a state map cake with a different color ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
I’m more convinced than ever that UF/IFAS has to be—and is—a central player in feeding the world of 2050. After all, food is our middle name. Perhaps no one in UF/IFAS embodies our feed-the-world imperative more than Gbola Adesogan. ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, EVENTS, UF/IFAS
Congratulations to the 59 UF/IFAS faculty whose record of strong achievement has earned them tenure, permanent status and/or promotion! I am proud to work with each and every one of these leaders who consistently demonstrate across-the-board ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, WORK & LIFE