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Public opinion surveys uncover misconceptions
With more than a year’s worth of gathered and analyzed data, the PIE Center’s quarterly public opinion surveys are uncovering a wide range of misconceptions when it comes to important agricultural and natural resources issues. PIE Center researchers ask voting-age...
What we’re doing with public opinion research results
Special report webpages PIE Center communicators distill lengthy research reports into bite-sized chunks of important information that are displayed online in a visually appealing format. Writers compare survey results to third-party research to uncover knowledge...
‘Life of PIE’ online celebration ushers in social media milestone
The website's new look After more than a year of planning, the PIE Center unveiled a new website designed to be more user-friendly and technically compliant. The responsive design displays more effectively on tablets and smartphones while ensuring quicker page loads....
Local choice project balances research, outreach
The culmination of the PIE Center’s first specialty crop block grant illustrates that the best research goes beyond technical reports. In addition to four research reports, PIE Center faculty and staff produced an online tool, two trade magazine inserts and countless...
Easy as PIE webinars continue to grow
The PIE Center webinar series continues to make learning about important agricultural and natural resources issues as Easy as PIE. The PIE Center’s monthly webinar series provides a chance to learn about addressing critical agricultural and natural resources issues in...
PIE Center welcomes new director
After six months as interim associate dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Ricky Telg is taking a role working closer with Florida’s agriculture and natural resources industries and the students learning to protect them. By assuming the role of PIE...
Grad student spotlight: Jessica Holt
Hometown: Plant City, Florida Favorite part of ag or natural resources: I love working with the people within the agricultural and natural resource industry and teaching others about what a unique and important field it is for everyone. Expected degree/completion...
Research roundup: Water usage, nutrition education program and more
High water users’ opinions of quantity & quality To understand the differences in public opinions between large-volume water users in the Orlando area and the general state population, the PIE Center will team up with the UF/IFAS Center for Landscape Conservation...
Advisory board, PIE Center building new strategic plan
The PIE Center is taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to creating a new strategic plan. The plan, more than a year in the making, has involved upward of 25 PIE Center faculty and staff, advisory board members and faculty in the Department of Agricultural Education...
Summer outreach calendar
Our monthly webinar series, Easy as PIE, provides a convenient and free professional development option for people who want to learn new strategies without taking time off work and paying travel expenses. Each hourlong webinar is recorded and available online at all...
PIE Crumbs: new faculty position, jobs, awards
Sandra Anderson will join the PIE Center on July 7 as a research coordinator after serving as the marketing research director for Perceptive Market Research in Gainesville for the last 20 years. In hr role as marketing research director, she evaluated research...
Telg announced as new PIE Center director
Ricky Telg, interim associate dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, will become the PIE Center’s director around July 1. Senior Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources Jack Payne announced the decision to IFAS on Friday. With the move to...