GAINESVILLE---Secondary school teachers and others interested in environmental education can use their home or work computers to earn college credit this fall. An innovative three-hour course, Food and the Environment, will be taught online ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASWASHINGTON, D.C.---Three University of Florida professors, Lynn Bailey, Jess Gregory and Nan-Yao Su, will receive 1996 Honor Awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture during ceremonies in Washington, D.C. today. (6-5-96) The awards, which ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---A small, shiny fly that feeds on pesky house flies may help Florida's poultry producers save thousands of dollars and squash complaints from their neighbors. By using the black garbage fly to rid poultry houses of the common house ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---The petunias in University of Florida researcher David Clark's greenhouse are the Energizer bunnies of flowers -- they keeping blooming and blooming and blooming. And if Clark's experiments work on other flowers, Florida's $600-million-a-year ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASAccording to Wen, Fratelli Martinelli Textile cheap ralph lauren Sales is a series of home accessories and linens, the above should be a polo player logo, known as the "American polo club." Intellectual Property Department of the Milan court ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASBRADENTON---It's been a rough year for Florida-grown Easter lilies. Unseasonably cold weather earlier this year will cause some plants grown outside the warmth of a greenhouse -- about 30 percent of the state's crop -- to bloom well after the ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---The Student Agricultural Council and the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences' Ambassadors will sponsor the sixth annual IFAS Experience in Agriculture and Natural Resources on Saturday, April 13. ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---Tourist-dependent Florida could save precious natural resources and money, and attract consumers, by "greening" its hotel rooms, a study by University of Florida energy experts suggests. By investing in minor improvements to the ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---Close to 2,000 tiny transgenic predator mites that feed on agricultural pests were released at a secured area on the University of Florida campus Thursday, marking the first time a genetically altered arthropod has been field-tested. Professor ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASGAINESVILLE---Educating the boaters on Florida's crowded waterways will do more to preserve the fragile coastal ecosystem than regulating boaters, according to a study by a University of Florida researcher. The study found boaters care about ... READ MORE
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