Four CAFNR faculty have been awarded International Faculty Collaboration Grants from the CAFNR Office of International Programs. The purpose of this incentive fund is to stimulate international research, teaching and outreach collaborations consistent with CAFNR Strategic Plan Goal Six — Championing Global Citizenship and Engagement. The collaborations can be in any area considered appropriate for CAFNR faculty. Collaborations involving faculty…
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Kerry Clark Receives Missouri International Student Council International Recognition Award
Kerry Clark, director of CAFNR International Programs, was selected as the recipient of the Missouri International Student Council (MISC) International Recognition Award. This award recognizes contributions to an international and culturally-diverse community at Mizzou. In her nomination letter, it was stated, “Since last year, Dr. Clark has been giving international students free driving classes. More than 10 students took a…
Celebrating the First-Generation College Student Experience
CAFNR faculty and staff share their experiences as first-generation college students
First-generation students have unique experiences and challenges that shape how they navigate college. The University of Missouri is celebrating the journeys of students, faculty and staff, and encouraging the next generation of students who are the first in their family to complete a bachelor’s degree throughout the National First-Generation College Celebration Week. Mizzou defines a first-generation college student as one…
Q&A with Linda Journey
Journey is a business support specialist II in CAFNR International Programs
What are your job duties/job responsibilities in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources? My basic role as Business Support Specialist II includes being an international liaison to CAFNR International Programs (CIP) visiting scholars, dignitaries and business people from all over the world, here on our USDA grants. This encompasses financials, personnel, logistics and databases. On the creative side,…
Nurturing Cross-Disciplinary Thinking
Mizzou students’ idea becomes reality
It’s a program where political science, business, chemical engineering, food science and students from many disciplines come together to solve problems associated with poverty and food insecurity. A part of the Brady and Anne Deaton Institute for University Leadership in International Development, the Deaton Scholars Program (DSP) is devoted to growing global sharing and application of knowledge to combat local…
Multi-Grain Thresher Earns Second Place At Innovation Showcase
Kerry Clark, director of CAFNR International Programs, and two collaborators in Ghana have developed an inexpensive multi-grain thresher for poor smallholder farmers in Africa. It is common for women on small farms to “thresh” soybean grains from the mature plants by beating the plants with sticks to remove the beans from the pods. It would take up to two weeks…
A Global Partner
CAFNR International Programs supports research, teaching and Extension efforts at an international level
CAFNR International Programs (CIP) provides technical assistance to international partners and facilitates global engagement for CAFNR faculty and students. CAFNR International Programs oversees numerous international training programs and welcomes visitors from across the globe each year. CIP named a new director in early August – Kerry Clark, an assistant research professor in rural sociology. Clark’s international work is well documented,…
A Lifetime of International Work
Kerry Clark named director of CAFNR International Programs
Kerry Clark, assistant research professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences (DASS) and project manager for smallholder productivity for the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL), has been named director of CAFNR International Programs, effective Aug. 1, 2019. Clark has worked internationally throughout her career. Through the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab, she works with a multidisciplinary team to bridge seed…
Ken Schneeberger Receives Haynes Distinguished Service Award at 2019 Celebration of Excellence
Ken Schneeberger, director of CAFNR International Programs, received the Dana Brown Haynes Distinguished Service Award at CAFNR’s 2019 Celebration of Excellence awards ceremony, held Thursday, April 11. Schneeberger joined Mizzou in 1968 after earning his PhD from Oklahoma State University. He is a professor emeritus of agricultural economics, and also served as director of CAFNR’s Farms and Centers for 10…
Field of Study
Ph.D. student from Rwanda studies crop breeding to help home country
For doctoral student Doreen Mutoni, coming to the United States to study crop breeding was due, in part, to the crop devastation she witnessed upon returning home to Rwanda after receiving her Master’s degree in the United Kingdom. Doreen is in her final year of the Borlaug Higher Education for Agricultural Research and Development, scholarship program, or BHEARD. The program, which…