Category: UF/IFAS Extension

IFAS Insights: Congratulations to Our Newly Promoted Faculty

by Rob Gilbert
July 3, 2024

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
Tags: Academics, Agriculture, Extension, Natural Resources, Promotions, Research, Teaching

Heroes in Every Season

by Scott Angle
November 30, 2023

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

UF/IFAS is everywhere a hurricane goes

by Scott Angle
September 13, 2023

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 & LIFE
Tags: Extension, Hurricanes, Idalia, Nature Coast Biological Station, UF/IFAS

Leader, visionary, champion for science, friend to deliver York lecture

by Scott Angle
April 26, 2023

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 Extension
Tags: Equity, Infrastructure, Research, UF/IFAS, USDA, York Lecture

Women’s history month: Madeline Mellinger

by Scott Angle
March 15, 2023

Madeline 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, Water
Tags: Everglades, History, IFAS, IPM, UF

Celebrating John Woeste

by Scott Angle
January 25, 2023

Congratulations 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
Tags: Alpha Gamma Rho, Dinner Of Distinction, Extension, Hall Of Fame

Thanks for teams that keep our food safe

by Scott Angle
November 21, 2022

Last year we needed someone fluent in USDA-speak and nimble enough to juggle 26 side conversations simultaneously. Fortunately, we already employed her. Meri Nantz works in Food Science and Human Nutrition as a research administrator ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Food Safety, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Volunteer/Training
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Food Safety, Food Science, Research, Research Administration, Thanksgiving, UF/IFAS

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

by Scott Angle
September 15, 2022

People have an appetite for science that improves their lives no matter what language they speak. In the last two years, Hardee County Extension Director Jonael Bosques, John Diaz and the CAFÉ Latino team have demonstrated that more than ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Agriculture, Hispanic, Latino, Natural Resources, Spanish

Promoting the promoted

by Scott Angle
August 9, 2022

Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster. Her work is so important to ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Citrus, Innovation, Peanuts, Promotion, Research, Tenure

You can’t put a dollar figure on trust

by Scott Angle
July 19, 2022

It was, quite simply, a great budget year. Here it is by the numbers: $8.8 million for research to update our nutrient rate recommendations, probably the single-most urgent request from our agricultural producers this year. A $3.65 million ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Budget, Geomatics, Nutrients

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