Trends & Topics
- Coach your team through collaboration
- Get on the same page with issue management
- Joan Flocks: A starting place for understanding immigration reform
- Do immigrants really take away jobs from unemployed Americans?
- Words and numbers: Why immigration matters to Florida
- Immigration bill seeks to fix ‘broken system’
- What do people see? Take strategic planning public
- Get to know yourself with internal branding
- Send in the SWOT team
- Strategic planning determines what makes you ‘you’
Jun
14
2013
PIE Center makes strong showing at national conference
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About of the PIE Center team traveled to the Association for Communication Excellence Conference in Indianapolis last week, making the University of Florida the most-represented and active school.
The PIE Center alone gave 12 presentations and won two awards in the three-day conference. Continue reading.
Jun
14
2013
PIE Center forms first advisory board
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By Laura Gorham
A 15-member advisory board has been assembled to aid the PIE Center in shaping, refining and achieving the center’s mission, vision and goals.
Discussion at last year’s steering committee meeting, which was attended by almost 50 stakeholders, confirmed the need for the PIE Center to transition to an advisory board structure. Continue reading.
Jun
14
2013
Easy as PIE webinars save money, environment
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By Laura Gorham
Six months of Easy as PIE webinars have saved attendees and their organizations thousands of dollars in salary and fuel savings and protected the environment from several metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
Between December and May, 169 people have participated in Easy as PIE webinars from 14 states and Washington, D.C. Continue reading.
Jun
14
2013
Grad student spotlight: Laura Gorham
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Hometown: Tappahannock, Va. I lived all over the place growing up, moving from Iowa, all around Virginia and also abroad (Paris and Nottingham, England). I spent two years in South Carolina and then moved to Gainesville, Fla., to go to UF. Continue reading.
Jun
14
2013
Doctor in the House: Joy Rumble (Goodwin)
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By Laura Gorham
In addition to a new job, a long-time graduate assistant also has a new name.
Joy Rumble, formerly Joy Goodwin, will continue taking down communication barriers in agriculture and natural resources through research and working with students, stakeholders and PIE Center team members in her new faculty position. Continue reading.
Jun
14
2013
PIE Crumbs: Graduation, baby, travel and more
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- Former master’s student Laura Conaway graduated in May after successfully defending her thesis, which was based on her work with the PIE Center exploring the use of Florida MarketMaker, an online tool that seeks to connect producers with consumers, businesses and retailers.
Jun
04
2013
Residents hungry for more information about local food production
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Residents in southwest Florida strongly support agriculture but say their opinions would improve if farmers provided more information about what they do, according to a recent survey by the UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education.
Working with agricultural industry leaders in the five-county region, PIE Center researchers found that 94 percent of survey respondents believe the agricultural industry was important to the region. Continue reading.
May
13
2013
Congrats to ‘fine’ photo contest winner
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Nicole Dodds
The results are in! The overall winner of the PIE Center Photo Contest is Lisette Ortiz with her photograph entitled “Fine feathers make fine birds”. Her photo received the greatest number of votes reaching 112.
This photo was taken on a farm in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Continue reading.
Apr
12
2013
Sayings from the land grant symposium
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“Bricks and Mortar in a Digital Age: The Uncertain Future of Higher Education” capped a yearlong celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, which created land grant universities. Faculty, administrators, students and professionals discussed the challenges and opportunities facing higher education such as financial support and rising costs, as well as the lure of an online education compared to the human element at a bricks-and-mortar university campus. Continue reading.
Apr
01
2013
Calling all shutterbugs! PIE Center launches photo contest
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Do you take photos of agriculture or natural resources? Grab your camera, get out there and submit your best photos in the PIE Center Photo Contest. We invite participants to submit photographs that capture a moment, landscape, product, or service that represents the agricultural systems and ecosystems that they live or work in. Continue reading.