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CAFNR student Guilliams awarded pork industry scholarship

Danielle Guilliams, an MU senior animal-sciences major from St. Louis, has won the $2,500 Lois Britt Memorial Pork Industry Scholarship.

Named after late National Pork Producers Council vice president Lois Britt, the scholarship is sponsored by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and administered by the NPPC. Nationwide, four undergraduate students intending to pursue careers in the pork industry have received the scholarship each year since it was established in 1990.

Guilliams expects to graduate from the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources this May. She has accepted a position with Premium Standard Farms as a manager in training to become the company's boar stud manager in Northwest Missouri.

Guilliams currently is involved in the new MU Swine Club, in which she serves as the field trip committee chair as well as a program committee member. She also works for Curators’ Professor Randall Prather and researches transgenic pigs and piglets in the Animal Science Research Center. She hopes to one day serve as a leader in the swine industry in reproductive management.

"These young people represent the future of the U.S. pork industry," said outgoing NPPC President Bryan Black, a pork producer from Canal Winchester, Ohio. "They are the next generation of leaders, and NPPC and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are pleased to recognize their commitment to the pork industry with these scholarships."

Posted: May 1, 2009
Story by: Randy Mertens