Tropical Research and Education Center at Homestead
Fund
Purpose
Provides financial support to a designated department, unit, or program, strengthening its mission and advancing its impact.
Provides financial support to a designated department, unit, or program, strengthening its mission and advancing its impact.
Challenge 250 is an initiative to fund rapid-response research at the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center in early diagnostics, containment strategies, and preliminary trials. Your gift will help protect growers, safeguard ecosystems, and strengthen Florida’s agriculture and horticulture industries for generations to come.
Your gift provides unrestricted support to the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC) in Homestead, FL.
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Other IFAS Giving Opportunities
Paul J. DiMare Foundation Term Professorship
Support a term professorship to initially hire an additional breeder/geneticist to work in tomatoes; individual will work closely w/plant geneticists and molecular biologists at UF to develop varieties resistant to fungi, viruses and bacteria, show increase yields and improve quality of tomatoes and vegetables within UF/IFAS; if needs change the donor may wish to use income for broader horticultural crop issues.
Emelie L. Matthews Student Excellence Endowment
Supports awards for CALS transfer students and Sigma Alpha/Alpha Gamma Rho, in honor of Emelie L. Matthews. It is the intention that the fund will be endowed.
FNGLA-Action Chapter MREC Excellence Endowment
Support undergraduate scholarships, graduate assistantships, research, education and programs at the UF/IFAS Mid-Florida Research and Education Center in Apopka, FL, at the discretion of the MREC Director.