Florida Agricultural Experiment Station

FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Mission Faculty The research mission of the University of Florida UF/IFAS employs nearly 600 faculty members with Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/ research appointments, many of whom are award- IFAS), conducted under the auspices of the winning, internationally recognized experts who Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (FAES), is publish papers in leading peer-reviewed journals to discover new scientific knowledge, encourage and are inducted into prestigious organizations innovative study, and create applications based such as the National Academy of Sciences and on sound science that address challenges facing as fellows in the American Association for the agriculture, natural resources, and interrelated Advancement of Science. human systems in Florida, our country, and The University of Florida is a land-grant university the world. and an Association of American Universities member. Our faculty are committed to the UF/IFAS History research mission while also assuming Extension FAES was founded in 1887 at Florida Agricultural and teaching responsibilities. Findings from their College in Lake City, the state’s original land-grant research are used as the basis for Extension institution. When UF officially began operations in programs taught statewide via publications, 1906, FAES was relocated to Gainesville. For much distance education, and field day events, and are of the 20th century, FAES was headquartered on the foundation of many of the classes taught by the UF main campus in Newell Hall, named for our faculty. former FAES director Wilmon Newell, who served from 1921-1943. Research The first off-campus FAES facility was the Citrus At UF/IFAS, research scientists work diligently to Research and Education Center (REC) in Lake discover solutions to some of the most vexing Alfred, established in 1917 to aid the state’s citrus problems in Florida and the world. Our research growers. It was followed by the Everglades REC spans three comprehensive areas: agriculture, in Belle Glade, North Florida REC in Quincy, and natural resources, and human-systems research. the Tropical REC in Homestead, all of which were Our researchers play leading roles in established in the 1920s. Additional facilities cross-disciplinary, campus-wide research opened in the decades that followed, increasing the initiatives such as: statewide presence of FAES. • Biodiversity Institute Funding • Emerging Pathogens Institute • Florida Climate Institute According to the most recent National Science • One Health Foundation figures, since fiscal year 2001, UF has • UF Genetics Institute ranked first or second among U.S. universities in • UF Informatics Institute total research expenditures in agricultural sciences •UF Water Institute 1 and natural resources and conservation. Our researchers are actively involved in UF/IFAS- Financial support for UF/IFAS research activities based centers of excellence such as: comes from a variety of sources, including • Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants federal contracts and grants; state programs and • Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology appropriations; check-off programs sponsored by • Center for Nutritional Sciences producers; contracts and grants from non-profit •Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture organizations and private companies; donations; and Natural Resources and revenues from the licensing of crop cultivars, • Center for Remote Sensing products, and technologies developed by UF/IFAS • Center for Stress Resilient Agriculture personnel. • Institute for Sustainable Food Systems • Plant Innovation Center

1 “Table 43. Total federally financed higher education R&D expenditures in the agricultural sciences and natural resources and conservation, ranked by FY 2016 total: FYs 2013-16” NCSES Data. National Science Foundation. Accessed 30 March 2018 from https://bit.ly/2GpCzKD.

2 | UF/IFAS RESEARCH OVERVIEW UF/IFAS RESEARCH OVERVIEW | 3 UF/IFAS Units

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15 13 16 Gainesville Campus Departments • Agricultural and Biological Engineering 14 • Agricultural Education and Communication • Agronomy • Animal Sciences 7 • Entomology and Nematology • Environmental Horticulture • Family, Youth and Community Sciences 1 • Food and Resource Economics 5 • Food Science and Human Nutrition 17 5 3 • Horticultural Sciences 9 6 • Microbiology and Cell Science • Plant Pathology • School of Forest Resources and Conservation • Soil and Water Sciences 2 • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 10 O -Campus Research and Education Centers (REC) 1 Citrus REC | LAKE ALFRED 4 2 Everglades REC | BELLE GLADE 3 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | VERO BEACH

4 Fort Lauderdale REC | FORT LAUDERDALE

5 Gulf Coast REC | BALM, PLANT CITY 11

An Equal Opportunity Institution. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, UF/IFAS Research Dean, publishes this information to advance research programs and related activities. For more information contact the UF/IFAS Research Dean’s Office, P.O. Box 110200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0200, 352-392-1784.