These programs are facilitated with state funding, extramural contract and grant funding, donations and gifts, and the collaborative efforts of cooperating agencies and institutions. This provides an exceptional opportunity for students to work in diverse ecological and crop production systems. The Department is one of the largest entomology programs nationwide,and one of only a few that offer comprehensive training in Nematology. Besides providing a full complement of regular and special topics courses needed for degree candidates, the Department offers, at the undergraduate level, service courses in basic entomology for a wide range of disciplines and plays a major role in the interdisciplinary plant protection specialization of the plant science major. Further, departmental faculty offer courses that are credited to the Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduate honors and general education requirements.
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Formal and informal relations exist among all these and other institutions, and make the University of Florida an exceptionally exciting and diverse location for the study of entomology and nematology. Gainesville is also considered to be one of the best places to live in the United States. This, plus significant collaborative international research and education grants procured by entomology-nematology faculty, give the department a strong international dimension in addition to its domestic mandate. Molecular, whole organism, and population ecology studies are included in the range of supported research within Entomology and Nematology. The USDA, National Science Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, the Agency for International Development, various agrichemical industries, and the State of Florida are among the donors sponsoring departmental research, extension, and instruction programs.