Emma Rose Ploch, an animal sciences major with a minor in science and agricultural journalism, recently received CAFNR’s Outstanding Sophomore Award. Ploch, from Labadie, Mo., completed an internship with the Missouri Pork Association last year and will serve as an intern for MFA Incorporated this summer. Ploch is the founder of Found in the Field, an agriculture-based social media platform…
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CAFNR Outstanding Senior: Natalie Ayers
Ayers, a science and agricultural journalism major, receives prestigious student award
It was pretty much a given where Natalie Ayers was going to get her degree after she graduated high school. Ayers’ parents both earned degrees from the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR). Ayers knew she was going to be a Tiger one day, too, just like her parents. “I had attended countless events on…
An Outstanding Recognition
CAFNR students earn Mizzou '39, Mizzou 18 Awards
Each year, the Mizzou Alumni Association Student Board selects 39 outstanding seniors and 18 outstanding graduate students for its annual Mizzou ‘39 and Mizzou 18 Awards. Mizzou ‘39 recipients are chosen for their academic achievement, leadership and service to Mizzou and the community. Mizzou 18 recipients are chosen for their world-class research, collaboration with faculty and staff, and their demonstrated leadership with…
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…
A Career Communicator
Christine Tew honored with Ag Communicator of the Year award from Missouri Department of Agriculture
While not a traditional farm kid, Christine Tew got involved in 4-H at an early age and later joined the National FFA Organization as a middle school student. Those positive experiences have led to a career in agriculture communication. Tew was recently honored by the Missouri Department of Agriculture for her communication efforts, taking home the Ag Communicator of the…
Spreading the Message
Jacqueline Janorschke wins prestigious scholarship
Whether people choose to be aware of it or not, agriculture is something that affects every human being alive today. But with less than 2 percent of the U.S. population farming, the other 98 percent of people in this country are largely removed from the world of agriculture. One way for people to get the message across about the important…
From Missouri to Japan
CAFNR student selected for science communication fellowship
For most MU students, the semester is already well underway; however, science and agricultural journalism junior Erica Overfelt’s semester is just beginning — and thousands of miles away from MU’s campus, too. From February 2019 to July 2019, Erica will serve as a science communication fellow for the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Okinawa, Japan. OIST is…
Representing Missouri
CAFNR student wins collegiate discussion meet
Holly Enowski wears a lot of hats and even the occasional crown. Aside from studying science and agricultural journalism at the University of Missouri, she is the reigning Miss Fleur de Lis, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta women’s fraternity, co-president of Mizzou’s Collegiate Farm Bureau and recently punched her ticket to represent Missouri Farm Bureau at the American Farm…
CAFNR Launches Career
CAFNR alum and host of U.S. Farm Report Tyne Morgan returns to campus to share experience with students
As an agriculture journalism student at the University of Missouri in the late 2000s, Tyne Morgan found herself questioning how her agriculture economics classes applied to her. Now, as the first female host of U.S. Farm Report, she talks about prices, supply and demand and other fundamental factors that impact prices on a daily basis. From Sept. 19-20, 2018, Tyne…
Presidential Achievement
CAFNR Student Wins Jim Evans Presidential Scholarship
University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources student Alexa Nordwald, a senior in science and agricultural journalism, accepted the American Agricultural Editors’ Association (AAEA) Jim Evans Presidential Scholarship at this summer’s Agricultural Media Summit. The $3,000 scholarship is the top scholarship provided by AAEA and recognizes academic and leadership excellence and commitment to the agricultural communications field.…