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CALS Workshops 4/3, 4/6, 4/11

Coffee and Careers
April 3 |9-11 a.m. | McCarty D, Room 2025
Come enjoy free coffee and donuts with Roshan Parikh, the liaison to CALS from the Career Resource Center! This event is open to all CALS students, faculty, and staff. Students are welcome to bring resumes, cover letters or personal statements for review.

Navigating the Job Search and Salary Negotiation
April 6 |5:30-7 p.m. | McCarty D, Room 2025
During this workshop, CALS students will learn best practices regarding the full-time job and internship search process and how to effectively negotiate a salary offer.

Finding a Place to Live and Surviving Your First 30 Days After Graduation
April 11 |5:30-7 p.m. | McCarty D, Room 2025
During this workshop, CALS students will learn relocation tips for a new job or graduate school after graduating from UF. Surviving the first 30 days of a new job or life as a graduate student will also be covered.

Marine Biology course (Summer B)

The Food and Resource Economics Department is recruiting outstanding students for its one-year Master of Agribusiness (MAB) program. This degree curriculum is specifically designed for students from non-economic and non-business backgrounds.

The MAB provides students the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in a changing and complex agricultural economy. Students take courses in finance, public policy, management strategies, human resource management, risk management, international marketing, decision-making, and quantitative methods. The program blends business and economics with the applied science of agriculture, providing methods for solving real-world problems. It also includes a summer internship in which the students have the opportunity to put to use the skills learned in the program.

The MAB offers students from all disciplines the opportunity to obtain the business background they need to be competitive in the workforce.

Our next class begins Summer B 2017 and we’re accepting applications now! Interested students should have the following:

• 3.0 upper division grade point average
• B or better grades in the four prerequisite courses:

-Principles of Microeconomics or AEB 2014 Economic Issues, Food, and You
-Principles of Management, AEB 3133 Principles of Agribusiness Management or other Management course
-Financial Accounting or AEB 3122 Financial Planning for Agribusiness
-Statistics

• GRE score of at least 296 with at least 145 on the quantitative (or GMAT of 465)
• Three strong letters of recommendation

We’re always looking for great students! If you have questions or are interested in this program, please contact me directly at jherman@ufl.edu. The requirements and more information regarding the MAB program are listed on our webpage at http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu/graduate/mab/

Summer C Course- Scientific Engagement

Duke TIP seeking engineering instructors

Duke TIP is looking for engineers! A summer job at TIP is a chance to provide gifted and talent students in grades four through twelve with an academic and social experience that can change their lives. Instructional teaching assistant jobs for courses like aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering, robotics, and more are available at program sites across the Southeast, Texas, and Missouri. We’re looking for applicants ranging from college students to university professors to accomplished professionals across the field of engineering. Find available positions, locations, dates, and salaries at https://tip.duke.edu/about/employment/instructional-positions.

UF Field and Fork Farm Intern and Volunteer Opportunities

Mechanical Intern
The Field and Fork Farm and Garden Program is looking for a student to work 10-20 hours per week to do tractor work in the Teaching Farm fields and to conduct preventative and scheduled tractor and small engine maintenance and basic repairs on a variety of machinery. This position will be responsible for operating and maintaining a John Deere 5403 tractor; a Kubota BX2670 tractor; tractor attachments including bush hog, rototillers, disks, and no-till equipment; weed whackers, walk-behind rototillers and push mowers.

The Field and Fork Farm and Gardens are a program of UF/IFAS CALS. All equipment is located at the Field and Fork Farm on IFAS Research Drive near Fifield Hall on campus. This position is available either as an hourly OPS position, federal work study position, or as a for-credit internship (contingent on approval by your major advisor). If you are interested, please email Sarah Bostick - sarahbostick@ufl.edu - for more information.​

Field and Fork Harvest Volunteers
We are seeking volunteers for the Field and Fork Farm and Gardens Program to assist with harvesting produce for the pantry at UF and local area soup kitchens. Each week Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30am-12:00pm we harvest at the Student Gardens (by the Bat Houses on Museum Drive) and need help! No experience is necessary, and in addition to the satisfaction of helping those in need, you can also take home a share of fresh veggies from the garden! If you are interested, please sign up by following the link here or email Claudie Babineaux - cbabineaux@ufl.edu - for more information. Sign-up Link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/409044baca629a7fc1-garden