May 2014 PIE Center Associate Director Alexa Lamm and AmericanHort Senior Vice President Craig Regelbrugge will take a closer look at a few of the topics and findings in the PIE Center’s most recent public opinion survey about immigration reform and explain some...
April 2014 Joy Hazell is a UF/IFAS Extension faculty member and is currently the Sea Grant Extension Agent in Lee County. She is also a member of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute Team. Joy plans, develops, implements and evaluates comprehensive needs based...
March 2014 Sustainability, obesity, climate change, food safety, genetically modified foods, alternative energy… these are all complex or ‘wicked’ issues that will need to be addressed using interdisciplinary approaches. How do we begin to tackle these issues? What is...
March 2014 Congress just passed the Farm Bill, which sets national agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry policy. What programs received renewed funding? Which pieces were cut? Where were the gains and disappointments? Join this session to learn about key...
February 2014 PIE Center Associate Director Alexa Lamm and UF Water Institute Director Wendy Graham take a closer look at a few of the topics and findings in the PIE Center’s public opinion survey and fill some apparent knowledge gaps, including the source and quality...
January 2014 High-powered lobbyists aren’t the only people with influence over the outcome of legislation. Each member of the voting public has the ability to affect policy change about important issues. Public opinion has affected policies for better and worse,...
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