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PIE Center grants awarded to 4 projects
After sorting through applications from across the university, the PIE Center Program Enhancement Grant winners have been chosen. Independent reviewers selected four winners from 22 proposals to receive approximately $5,000 each. The winners, which represent...
Healthy Gulf partners gather in Gainesville
By Jayne Johnson The PIE Center hit the halfway mark of the five-year, $6.5 million Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities project that addresses concerns in Gulf...
PIE Center faculty, staff, students swarm SAAS conference
By Laura Gorham PIE Center researchers took on Dallas to present research in three different sections during the 2014 annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists. Nine faculty, staff and graduate students presented research findings in the...
Grad students experience first conference
By Caroline Roper Several PIE Center graduate students joined faculty and staff in Dallas for the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists earlier this week, some presenting research for the first time. The PIE Center sent nine faculty, staff and graduate...
PIE Center to award $20,000 in grants to UF faculty
By offering $20,000 to UF faculty, the PIE Center is reinvesting in its mission to understand public opinion and its influence on important agricultural and natural resources issues. The PIE Center Program Enhancement Grant will provide UF researchers or...
Focus groups show Floridians’ interest in agriculture
Residents in southwest Florida hunger for more information about the region’s agriculture, according to research by the UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education. Participants in six focus groups in the five-county region said they valued agriculture’s economic,...
INFOGRAPHIC: Endangered Species
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act being signed into law. Given the impact humans have on biodiversity, the PIE Center initiated a study to explore the attitudes, opinions, and knowledge of Floridians around the issue of endangered...
Contracts & grants: Turning research into progress
The PIE Center provides trusted research and strategic recommendations by taking an interdisciplinary approach to issues analysis, message effectiveness and evaluation, as well as public opinion and policy formation and change. Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities The...
Outreach: Turning training into understanding
Six months of Easy as PIE webinars have saved attendees and their organizations tens of thousands of dollars in salary and fuel costs, while also protecting the environment from several metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions. Between December and May, 169...
Media: Turning information into awareness
The PIE Center actively engages new audiences through a plethora of communication channels to continuously share our extensive volume of research, news and training materials. The center pays close attention to web traffic. More than 13,000 unique visitors have come...
Annual evaluation: Turning feedback into improvement
Even as the vast majority of stakeholders said they were satisfied with PIE Center research, training and communication efforts, respondents to a recent survey supplied the PIE Center team with several suggestions on areas to improve. PIE Center Director Tracy Irani...
NPPEC: The science of public policy
Public policy is a complex process with multiple angles. There is a science to understanding how effective policy develops, how effective policy is and how it can be improved. The National Public Policy Evaluation Center seeks to understand social, economic and...