The Interdisciplinary Center for Ongoing Research/Education (ICORE) Partnerships project offers innovative professional development for high school teachers through new and extended collaborations with researchers across Florida.



The project research partners are science, social science and education faculty and graduate students at the University of Florida (UF), UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Research and Education Centers (IFAS), and Florida Atlantic University (FAU). School district partners are 136 teachers from limited-resource schools in the five counties in or near the counties in which the research institutions reside.



The learning activities of the ICORE Partnerships are organized around emerging pathogens, or biological pathogens that attack people, plants, and animals. This is a major interdisciplinary initiative at UF and a topic of increasing importance to the health and economy of Florida and the nation.

The project is sponsored by STEP, UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training (CPET), the College of Education (COE), and the Emerging Pathogens Initiative (EPI).