Lou, well deserved retirement from UF after many years of leading the UF Center for Spirituality and Health as Director and faculty member in the Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine. Thanks for the wonderful retirement dinner (May 2, 2018) Keep going strong! Louis A. Ritz, Ph.D.
May – you graduated in super-speed from UF (Master in Accounting)! Thanks for all your help as Project Assistant for UF Mindfulness and the PLG lab. We wish you well in your new job and will miss you dearly.
What a joyful Open House. Some impressions. Thanks to Kay for preparing home cooked food. Yum! The “dirt cake” in the flower pot. Delicious. Chris is making last minute preps for the Open House. Serious research chats. Relax and enjoy. Student-driven research in the PLG lab. Integral and Relational Sciences – PLG lab. STEP-AWBH Model […]
Open House PLG Lab (2018) [Flyer]
Carla presented her research at the AGU Meeting in New Orleans (Dec. 11-15, 2017). Her poster was focused on “Soil organic carbon variability in High-Andean ecosystems: Bringing together machine learning and proximal soil sensing.” Some heavy lifting at this flashy multi-media supported meeting.
2017 Women in Science Workshop “Connecting Mindfulness and Work-Life Balance” This workshop (https://www.soils.org/membership/women-in-science) was taught by Sabine Grunwald. Slides Workshop Mindfulness WLB (2017). The associated worksheet is available per request. Women in Science article (CSA News, 2018)
The World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS) https://www.21wcss.org/ takes place only every 4 years and is organized by the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS). In 2018 it will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Aug. 12-17, 2018). I will serve as the Convener of the Divisional Symposium “C4.5.1. Integration of historical, philosophical and […]
Yummy. Chris, Kay, Sabine, Toshi, Jiahua, Risa, Hari and Carla.
So many awards for members of our lab group – Cooooooongratulations !!! Carla Gavilan received the UF Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation award (2018) Carla Gavilan won the best oral presentation award at the Soil and Water Science Department Research Forum, Gainesville, FL (2017) Carla Gavilan received the second place in the Student Oral Competition, ASA […]
Bringing mindfulness to campus and sharing mindfulness practices, experiences, and fostering dialogue was gratifying and joyful. The UF Mindfulness Day 2017 in Gainesville, FL (Sept. 25, 2017) brought about 300 students, faculty members and people from the Gainesville community together. The program included the keynote talk by Dr. Glenn Hartelius; invited guest speaker Gurudev Shri […]