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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...
Presentations on immigration research win international awards
As the PIE Center prepares to release the findings of its second public opinion survey about immigration reform later this month, results from last year’s survey won several awards at an international conference. Associate Director Alexa Lamm and several graduate...
Irani steps down as PIE Center director
Tracy Irani, who played a major role in establishing the PIE Center since 2008, will leave her role as director to become chairperson of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences. Irani served as interim chairwoman for the department since October and...
Through their lens: 2014 photo contest winners
Overall winner — Lynn Scarborough I am 61 years old. I live on my husband's family ranch located in Lake Placid. The ranch raises beef cattle and has some citrus. I am a housewife who sometimes raises the orphan calves along with feeding and caring for a few horses....
Faculty spotlight: Assistant Professor Joy Rumble
What is your favorite project or part of the PIE Center? My favorite part of the PIE Center is getting to work on identifying solutions to address ANR issues so that ANR can continue to thrive into the future. What are you currently working on? Three specialty crop...
Faculty spotlight: Associate Director Alexa Lamm
What is your favorite project or part of the PIE Center? I love the diversity of projects the PIE Center works on so it is difficult to pick just one. I'm a person who loves diversity on the job, so working on water issues one day, labor issues the next, and then...
