Gainesville, FL | Thursday, May 25th marked the 16th Annual Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (FAES) Research Awards Ceremony. The night’s theme was team science, highlighting interdisciplinary research across the state that benefits Florida communities and beyond.
Over 200 people gathered to celebrate the UF/IFAS faculty, staff, and student awardees. Award categories included recognition for excellent graduate research, innovative plant breeding, and high impact publications. Drs. Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl’s sensational plants growing in lunar soil publication was one of 10 papers to receive the recognition of UF/IFAS High Impact Publication.
UF/IFAS Associate Dean for Research Damian Adams, “These researchers are advancing the frontiers of their disciplines and having particularly significant impacts that can be defined in a variety of ways.”
“Impactful research truly is a team effort. I find it fitting that there is an acronym for the word TEAM: together everyone achieves more,” said UF/IFAS Dean for Research Robert Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert presided over the ceremony with special guests that included Associate Provost David Reed.
A full list of the over 120 awardees, as well as other key parts of the ceremony, can be found here.
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The research mission of UF/IFAS is to discover new scientific knowledge, encourage innovative study, and create applications based on sound science that address challenges facing agriculture, natural resources, and interrelated human systems in Florida, our country, and around the world. The UF/IFAS Research enterprise represents the work of nearly 600 faculty members on the main campus in Gainesville, as well as 12 research and education centers and five demonstration sites across the state.
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