Milwaukee, WI – Students, faculty, and staff from the UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education in agriculture and natural resources traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the Association for Communication Excellence conference (ACE).
RESEARCH AWARDS
Dorcas Sunday receiving the Outstanding Poster Award at the 2025 ACE Conference.
OUTSTANDING POSTER
Dorcas Sunday, an agricultural education and communication graduate student, received the Outstanding poster for her research poster: Trust in the Time of Outbreaks: Science communication’s role in maintaining trust in science and trust in the agricultural food system
Other authors included Lauri M. Baker and Heather Young
RUNNER-UP OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PAPER
Sunday, an agricultural education and communication graduate student, also received Runner-Up Outstanding Research Paper for her work on Viral Headlines: An analysis of Avian Influenza risk perceptions based on news headlines
Other authors included Lauri M. Baker and Heather Young
PROFESSIONAL SKILL AWARDS (CRITIQUE AND AWARDS)
The PIE Center received multiple professional skills awards. The ACE Critique and Awards is an annual event that provides professionals with critiques of their work and recognizes those who have done an outstanding job.
Gold Award
PIE Fellows Course (Education Technology Design, Instructional Design)
Karlibeth Leitheiser, Ashley McLeod-Morin, Ricky Telg, Sandra Anderson, Anissa Mattox, Lauri Baker, Michaela Kandzer, Aly Morrison, Cheng-Xian Yang
Silver Awards
Florida Residential Fertilizer Toolkit (Graphic Design, Interactive Multimedia, Web Graphics)
Karlibeth Leitheiser, Ricky Telg, Jessica Czipulis, J. Bryan Unruh, Michael Dukes
PIE Academy (Education Technology Design, Instructional Design)
Ricky Telg, Angie Lindsey, Aly Morrison, Phillip Stokes, Christa Court
6th Annual State of the Science Meeting (Crisis and Issues Management, Issues Management)
Ashley McLeod Morin, Karlibeth Leitheiser, Ricky Telg, Farah Arosemena, Lauri Baker, Tracy Irani, Phillip Stokes, Rachel Stormant, Sydney Honeycutt, Cheng-Xian Yang, Sandra Anderson, Aly Morrison
40 and Fresh: Looking Back, Focusing Forward, AIAEE Conference Program (Graphic Design, Cover)
Michaela Kandzer, Karlibeth Leitheiser, Ricky Telg, Ashley McLeod-Morin
