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Lisa Groshong Earns MU Distinguished Dissertation Award – Discipline Winner
Lisa Groshong is being honored by the MU Graduate School with the MU Distinguished Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled “Looking Broadly and Deeply into Perceptions of Local Climate Change Impacts Among Visitors to Missouri State Parks.” This work was supervised by Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, associate professor in the School of Natural Resources. The results of Groshong’s research suggest opportunities for state park managers to take action toward locally-oriented climate change mitigation, education and communication. Groshong is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri.
Jim Spain Named Icon of Education by KC’s Ingram’s Magazine
Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies and eLearning, has been named an “Icon of Education” by Kansas City’s Ingram’s Magazine. The feature is in its 12th year and honors 10 educators at all levels in Missouri and Kansas. Spain is also a professor in our Division of Animal Sciences. Today, he continues to teach and serve as an advisor in CAFNR while also serving in his current administrative roles. Spain first joined MU in 1990 as a state extension dairy scientist and assistant professor. After serving eight years as assistant dean for academic programs for MU’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Spain was named the university’s vice provost for undergraduate studies in 2007 and added vice provost for eLearning to his title in 2011. Read more at news.missouri.edu/2020/jim-spain-named-icon-of-education-by-kcs-ingrams-magazine/.
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Stephen Anderson, Soil Health Lab Equipment, 3/15/20-6/30/20, $100,000, MO Department of Natural Resources
Bruce Barrett, Acquisition of Goods & Services – Plant Genetics FY20-21, 4/1/20-3/31/2021, $82,280, Agricultural Research Service
Bruce Barrett, Acquisition of Goods & Services: Administrative/Facility Support Services, 4/1/20-3/31/21, $44,000, Agricultural Research Service
Bruce Barrett, Acquisition of Goods and Services – Bio Control of Insects FY20-21, 6/1/2020-5/31/2021, $11,990, Agricultural Research Service
Kevin Bradley, Demonstrate BASF herbicide options in XtendFlex soybeans, 4/15/2020-4/14/2021, $15,000, BASF Corp
Kaitlyn Bissonnette, Evaluation of Bioconsortia products for the effect of biological seed treatments on early soybean growth and seedling disease, 3/15/2020-3/14/2023, $10,000, Bioconsortia
Kerry Clark, SCRP20 Ghana Cocoa Cultivation, 7/1/2020-8/31/2022, $49,747, Foreign Ag Service
Deborah Finke, Evaluating Potential Cross-Resistance between Bacterial Proteins for Western Corn Rootworm and Baseline Toxicity Assays for Northern Corn Rootworm, 4/9/2020-4/8/2021, $59,999, Agricultural Research Service
Benjamin Knapp, Upland Oak Sustainability, 1/1/20-6/30/21, $23,752, University of Kentucky
Menghshi Lin, Exploring the Mechanisms and Applications of 4D Food Printing, 5/1/20-4/30/22, $200,000, USDA NIFA
Calvin Meeks, Refinement of Nitrogen Use in Cotton for the Cotton Belt, 1/1/2020-12/31/2020, $5,000, Cotton Inc.
Gerald Miller Jr, Evaluation of disease control practices on putting greens, 4/1/20-12/31/20, $6,000, BASF Corp
Charles Nilon, National Need for Disciplinary Integration in Forest Resource Management, 4/15/20-4/14/25, $238,500, USDA NIFA
Bethany Redel, Cytokine enhancement of in vitro maturation and developmental competence of swine and cattle oocytes for use in agriculture and biotechnology, 7/1/2020-6/30/2023, $465,000, USDA NIFA
Ronald Revord, Specialty Crop Multi-State Program, 5/1/2020-4/30/2023, $923,155, Department of Agriculture
Peter Sutovsky, Influence of autophagy and mitophagy on preimplantation embryo development and mitocondrial inheritance in livestock animals, 6/1/20-5/31/24, $490,000, USDA NIFA
Jinglu Tan, Acquisition of Goods and Services – Cropping Systems & Water Quality FY20-21, 4/1/2020-3/31/2021, $83,893, Agricultural Research Service
Lisa Webb, Identifying Migration Routes, Timing of Migrations, and Important Breeding, Staging, and Wintering Areas for Blue-Winged Teal, 8/1/2020-7/31/2021, $40,151, LA Wildlife & Fisheries Foundation
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