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Ferrell selected to lead UF/IFAS agronomy department

by Megan Winslow
November 14, 2024

UF/IFAS leadership has named Jay Ferrell as the new chair of UF’s department of agronomy. Ferrell’s appointment, effective Nov. 18, comes nearly nine months after he began serving as the interim chair of the department. (more…) READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agronomy Department, Appointment, CAIP, Center For Aquatic And Invasive Plants, Chair, Gopal Kakani, IFAS, Jay Ferrell, Pesticide Information Office, PIO, Rob Gilbert, UF, UF/IFAS

New chair: Renee Goodrich to lead UF food science and human nutrition department

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
September 6, 2023

Renée Goodrich, professor of food science and human nutrition, has been tapped to chair the UF/IFAS department where she’s been a faculty member since 1998. Goodrich will lead the department’s 25 faculty members, as well as its staff ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS
Tags: Administrative Update, Chair, Food Science And Human Nutrition, FSHN, Renee Goodrich

New chair: Vijaya Gopal Kakani to lead UF agronomy

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
May 19, 2022

Vijaya Gopal Kakani joins the University of Florida as professor and chair of the UF/IFAS agronomy department. He starts July 6. As the new chair, Kakani will lead the department in its goal to improve and sustain food production while conserving ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agronomy, Chair, News

UF Agronomy Chair Earns Crop Science Society of America’s Top Honor

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
November 4, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Diane Rowland may be just a few months into leading the University of Florida/IFAS agronomy department, but the leadership she’s long displayed in her field will soon garner her a prestigious honor. Each year, ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agronomy, Awards And Recognitions, Chair, Crop Science Society Of America, Diane Rowland, Fellow

New Chair: UF Agronomy ‘At the Cutting Edge of Feeding the World’

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
September 9, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Diane Rowland’s first professional job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Peanut Research Laboratory set her on what she says has been an unanticipated path concerning the world’s food supply. Now, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Agroecology, Agronomy, Chair, Diane Rowland, Jack Payne, News

Lisa House, UF/IFAS Alumna, Named Chair of Food and Resource Economics Department

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
June 4, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Lisa House’s ties to the University of Florida’s food and resource economics department run deep. House, who first joined the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences faculty as an associate professor in 2001, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Chair, Food And Resource Economics Department, Jack Payne, Lisa House

Ag & Bio Engineering Chair Can’t Be Confined to a Cube

by Brad Buck
July 23, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- As she grew up in rural Arkansas, Kati Migliaccio’s interest in agricultural engineering came naturally. She liked math, science and problem solving, so she wanted an engineering career, but not one that confined her ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering Department, Chair, Dorota Haman, Food, Hydrology, Irrigation, Jack Payne, Kati Migliaccio, News, Water

From the family farm to UF/IFAS: The new chair of environmental horticulture

by Brad Buck
July 13, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When he was 4, Dean Kopsell moved with his family to a 200-acre nursery in northern Illinois. He spent days roaming the farm, wading in the creek that ran through the property and playing in the barns. In high school ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Chair, Dean Kopsell, Environmental Horticulture Department, News

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