International Focus October 2005
Volume 16, No. 9, Spotlight on IFAS Worldwide
- A Blossoming Relationship: UF/IFAS Trade Mission to South Africa Focuses on Tropical Ornamentals
- Taming Hydrilla: Searching for Bio-Control Agents in East Africa
- From the Director: International Programs Award Winners Named
--UF/IFAS International Fellows Named for 2005
-- UF International Educator of the Year Awards - Preserving Orchids: Cryogenic Seed Bank Research Presented at 51st Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture Annual Meeting
- The Heart of Russia: Sarasota County Extension Director Joins Sarasota Sister-City Delegation to Vladimir, Russia
- UF/IFAS animal nutrition expert lectures in Ecuador
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UF/IFAS professor Emilio Bruna earns UF's International Educator of
the Year Award

Tropical conservation professor Emilio Bruna, whose world-renowned work on the preservation of rainforests in the Amazon basin and the tropical savanna ecosystem called The Cerrados, received the university's very first International Educator of the Year Award for untenured or newly tenured faculty.
Taming Hydrilla: searching for bio-control agents in East Africa

James Cuda, UF/IFAS entomology and nematology (left), rearing hydrilla insect predators in Burundi, Africa with help from high-level African research scientists.
A Blossoming Relationship: UF/IFAS trade mission to South Africa

Wagner Vendrame was tapped by the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services to explore South African markets for Florida's booming tropical ornamentals industry.
International Focus
- Editor
Linda Evans
Coordinator Educational Media/Communications - Executive Editor
Don Poucher
Assistant Vice President
