Extension is a partnership between state, federal, and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. The University of Florida (UF), together with Florida A&M University (FAMU), administers the Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
3 weeks 4 days ago
Click here for the winners and the complete list of winners in each Major.
2 months 3 weeks ago
To help homeowners, industry personnel, UF/IFAS posts videos on turfgrass research
Feb. 19, 2013 / Photo available at http://news.ifas.ufl.edu
By Tom Nordlie, 352-273-3567, tnordlie@ufl.edu
Contact: Bryan Unruh, 850-995-3720, ext. 108, jbu@ufl.edu
4 months 1 week ago
To facilitate grantmanship skills and to help improve success in securing extramural funding, I am pleased to announce that the IFAS Dean for Research office will once again be hosting a grantsmanship workshop this spring. The full day seminar (“Writing Winning Grants”), hosted by Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, LLC., comprehensively addresses both practical and conceptual aspects that are important to the proposal-writing process. It is designed for faculty members who have had some exposure to writing grant applications, either through training / mentoring or personal experience.
5 months 2 weeks ago
This is a call for nominations for the 2012 "Awards of Excellence for Graduate Research", due in the Office of the Dean for Research by 5:00pm on Friday, February 1, 2013. Nominations should include an electronic submission of the thesis or dissertation, the current address and phone number of the nominee, the nominee’s major, any supporting materials, and the name of a contact person. Cash awards ($1,500 Doctorate; $1,000 Masters) as well as plaques will be presented to the winners at the Florida Agricultural Experiments Station’s Annual Awards Ceremony.
7 months 2 weeks ago
IFAS will again participate in the 2013 UF Research Opportunity Incentive Seed Fund competition. Please see the following link: http://www.research.ufl.edu/researchsupport/internal_support.html#opportunity_fund. We also have put this information at our url site: http://my.ifas.ufl.edu/sites/admin/dean-rec/researchOpportunity2013/
1 year 3 months ago
The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is pleased to announce the call for Research or Extension Summer Internships with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station or the Florida Cooperative Extension Service. This internship program is a cooperative effort between the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), the Experiment Station, and the Extension Service. Interns will be paid $560 per week ($14 per hour) and will work under the supervision of an Experiment Station faculty member or a county Extension Agent.
1 year 3 months ago
IFAS scientists are truly changing the world through the impacts of their research. A key way that the new knowledge generated by IFAS researchers is evaluated and validated by the scientific community and shared is our research publications.
The impacts of our research are broad, and can be manifested in many different ways, including:
1 year 4 months ago
To help improve your success in grantsmanship and extramural funding, I am pleased to announce that we will once again be hosting grantsmanship workshops this Spring. This year, we are hosting two workshops for faculty; no workshops for graduate students are planned for this spring.
1 year 5 months ago
Dear colleagues:
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative has issued another request for research proposals (RFP-II), which will provide up to $7.5M per year (total) for research by individual investigators or by teams of investigators, on research related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is anticipated that each grant will range from $100,000 to $1,00,000 per year and that grants will be awarded for periods from one to three years.
1 year 5 months ago
Colleagues,
I am pleased to be able to announce that we will be sponsoring two opportunities this coming spring to help you fine tune and enhance your tools for success in grantsmanship.
1 year 6 months ago
This is a call for nominations for the 2011 "Awards of Excellence for Graduate Research", due in the Office of the Dean for Research by 5:00pm on Monday, January 16, 2012. Nominations should include an electronic submission of the thesis or dissertation, the current address and phone number of the nominee, the nominee’s major, any supporting materials, and the name of a contact person. Cash awards ($1,500 Doctorate; $1,000 Masters) as well as plaques will be presented to the winners at the Florida Agricultural Experiments Station’s Annual
1 year 7 months ago
IFAS will again participate in the 2012 UF Research Opportunity Incentive Seed Fund competition. Please see the following link: http://www.research.ufl.edu/researchsupport/internal_support.html#opportunity_fund. We also have put this information at our url site: http://my.ifas.ufl.edu/sites/admin/dean-rec/researchOpportunity2012/
1 year 11 months ago
On May 20th, 2011 the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station hosted its 3rd Annual Awards Ceremony recognizing some of our research leaders in IFAS.
2 years 1 month ago
Often we have heard from faculty that they would like an easy way to accomplish service functions for appropriate entities with minimal overhead and ease of execution. After discussions with DSR we have come to an agreement to enable faculty to declare themselves a service program with a single account receiving deposits and 10% indirect cost rate.
2 years 7 months ago
I am very pleased to announce the 2011 Research Innovation Grant Awards. The following 11 projects were chosen to be funded among many great submissions.
3 years 2 months ago
Attached is a copy of the remarks of Dr. Roger Beachy, Director, NIFA given to the Outlook Forum. For those of you who are contemplating submitting an AFRI grant, you may want to read this and get a sense of Dr. Beachy's direction of NIFA and the AFRI grant program. There are also some predictors of what new/additional kinds of information they may be asking for when the RFA is issued.
3 years 2 months ago
Today the experiment station directors were briefed in Washington DC by NIFA staff in the new RFAs due in a few weeks. These are my notes and perceptions on what to expect.
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