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Inside CAFNR
A newsletter for alumni & friends // December 2025
Message from the Director
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It has been another busy year for the Division of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences (FNES)! I am grateful to all staff and faculty as we are together making progress in our land-grant mission – serving students and stakeholders while advancing research.

FNES welcomed 104 new undergraduates in August; the total combined opening day enrollment in our two majors, Food Science & Nutrition and Nutrition & Exercise Physiology (NEP), was 395, in addition to 62 graduate students. Read More >>
Feature Stories
Two FNES faculty members honored with CAFNR's Golden Apple (click to read)
Two FNES faculty members honored with CAFNR's Golden Apple

Daniel Credeur, associate teaching professor 

Catherine Peterson, associate professor
A ‘first’ for Mizzou (click to read)
A ‘first’ for Mizzou »

Vice Chancellor and Dean Daubert leads international food science and technology event.
Pioneering technology to measure vital sign in blood honored at international competition (click to read)
Pioneering technology to measure vital sign in blood honored at international competition »

Engineering innovation pitch competition recognizes Mizzou technology with top honors in Medical Category.
Research Achievements
Mizzou researchers find simple way to make kale healthier (click to read)
Mizzou researchers find simple way to make kale healthier »

Researchers from CAFNR find oil-based dressings or sauces help the body absorb more nutrients from kale and make it taste better, too.
Mizzou researchers enhancing soybean taste to win over more consumers (click to read)
Mizzou researchers enhancing soybean taste to win over more consumers »

Scientists are developing innovative ways to improve flavor of soy-based foods, deliver more health benefits and appeal to a wider audience.
A recipe for change: Mizzou team prints meals with a twist (click to read)
A recipe for change: Mizzou team prints meals with a twist »

4D food printing offers safer, smarter meals for people with dysphagia.
Alumni Corner
Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak honored with 2025 FNES Column Award (click to read)
Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak honored with 2025 FNES Column Award »

The Column Award is CAFNR’s highest honor bestowed by the college for outstanding alumni.
From NEP to med school (click to read)
From NEP to med school »

CAFNR shaped David Sniatkewicz’s path to medicine.
Recent food science graduate wins trip to QCS (click to read)
Recent food science graduate wins trip to QCS »

Student Features
Mizzou Exercise is Medicine-On Campus organization works to get the campus community active (click to read)
Mizzou Exercise is Medicine-On Campus organization works to get the campus community active »

Members of EIM-OC held free and fast fitness testing in Speakers Circle on April 22 to emphasize the importance of physical fitness to overall health.
From biochemistry to nutrition and exercise physiology: The path to a PhD (click to read)
From biochemistry to nutrition and exercise physiology: The path to a PhD »

PhD student Anna Gonsalves found her passion for nutrition and exercise physiology through undergraduate research.
Dietetics and Nutrition and Exercise Physiology students practice community nutrition and serve others at The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri (click to read)
Dietetics and Nutrition and Exercise Physiology students practice community nutrition and serve others at The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri »

Students earn credentials for their future accreditation as dieticians by hosting food demos and packing groceries at The Food Bank Market.
Kudos

NEP student receives Remington R. Williams Award 

Mizzou Dairy Products Evaluation Team receives high rankings at national contest 
Faculty/Staff Spotlight
Jackie Limberg recognized with a trio of honors from Mizzou (click to read)
Jackie Limberg recognized with a trio of honors from Mizzou

Jackie Limberg awarded Millsap Distinguished Professorship

CAFNR students and mentor recognized at Show Me Research Week

Jackie Limberg honored with Ann K. Covington Award for Mentoring
Andrew Clarke receives honors from CAFNR, Meat Science society (click to read)
Andrew Clarke receives honors from CAFNR, Meat Science society

Andrew Clarke receives 2025 Brady J. Deaton Fellow in International Agriculture Award

Andrew Clarke honored with award from American Meat Science Association
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