Spring 2012
Mar
13
2012
PIE Center welcomes education, outreach coordinator
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education (PIE Center) welcomes Dawn McKinstry as its newest team member.
As the new education and outreach coordinator, she will work alongside PIE Center staff to develop and implement educational programming and training workshops based on the focus areas of PIE Center research. Continue reading.
Mar
13
2012
PIE Center grows across state lines
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With its first multi-state project, the PIE Center demonstrates that the need for research and education in agriculture and natural resources doesn’t stop at the Florida-Georgia border.
Having completed more than 25 studies with Florida organizations since 2009, the PIE Center will expand its focus regionally with a project for the Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF). Continue reading.
Mar
13
2012
Graduate student spotlight: Joy Goodwin
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Hometown: Mt. Gilead, Ohio. It’s a rural area about 45 minutes north of Columbus. My family lives on a 2,000-plus acre grain farm. I raised a variety of livestock growing up and graduated high school with only 92 classmates.
Favorite part of ag or natural resources: Just talking with people from all walks of life about agriculture and natural resources. Continue reading.
Mar
13
2012
Mark your calendars — Lunch and learn with PIE Center
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As valued stakeholders in the PIE Center, please join us on March 20 in Gainesville at the new Alto Straughn Extension Professional Development Center to learn about eye-opening research results and what needs to be done differently to help the agricultural industry appeal to the public more effectively. Continue reading.
Mar
13
2012
Save the date — Steering committee meeting
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Stay tuned for more information about our Steering Committee meeting, which will be scheduled during the week of July 23. More information will be released in the June newsletter. Continue reading.
Feb
29
2012
PIE Center research debuts in academic journal
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With publication in a national academic journal and multiple awards at an academic conference, research by the Center for Public Issues Education (PIE Center) is receiving rave reviews.
Led by top doctoral student researcher, Joy Goodwin, the PIE Center’s agricultural message testing project appears in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Communications. Continue reading.
Dec
14
2011
New location, people foster growth
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With new offices and fresh faces, the PIE Center continues to grow through a hectic summer and fall.
Rachel Divine, Laura Bernheim and Lauren Hrncirik all recently joined the center, while former staffers Christy Chiarelli, Kevin Kent and Becky Raulerson pursue other opportunities. Continue reading.
Dec
14
2011
PIE Center/Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology (CLCE) enter round two on state legislative budget request
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The PIE Center will again team up with the UF/IFAS Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology (CLCE) to secure recurring funding from the Florida State Legislature.
Our legislative budget request, or LBR, provides the foundation for an innovative research partnership between environmental horticulture researchers and social scientists. Continue reading.
Dec
14
2011
PIE Center receives $150,000 to promote, examine ‘local’ produce
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The PIE Center will receive more than $150,000 to conduct a two-year research project that will help improve the way Florida-grown produce is marketed.
In partnership with the Florida Specialty Crop Foundation and the Food and Resource Economics (FRE) Department, the project was one of 23 proposals selected by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences (FDACS) to receive a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the USDA. Continue reading.
Dec
14
2011
Agricultural messages, words and images: New research coming soon from PIE Center and Ag Institute
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After discovering the public’s negative perceptions of many commonly used agricultural messages, images and themes, the PIE Center’s follow-up research with the Agriculture Institute of Florida (AIF) will explore what types of messages are most effective when targeting Florida’s young adult opinion leaders. Continue reading.