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Katie Crider

April 15, 2021

Q&A With Katie Crider
Chloe Dobson has stayed busy during her time at MU, and as she heads toward graduation in May, she is participating in her most unique project yet – a virtual international internship with Camerata Salzburg, an internationally-renowned chamber orchestra based in Salzburg, Austria. Photo courtesy of Chloe Dobson.

April 15, 2021

A ‘Mind-Blowing’ Experience
As part of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) strategic plan, the College launched COMPASS (CAFNR’s Opportunity for Minorities: Promoting and Achieving Student Success), a peer-mentoring group to promote academic success, persistence and successful graduation of participating students, during the Fall 2020 semester. The program runs for eight weeks during the beginning of each fall semester, with a three-to-five-hour weekly commitment for the student participants.

April 15, 2021

COMPASS Helps Underrepresented Minority Students Build a Network
Ray Massey

April 8, 2021

Nudging Landowners and Tenants Toward Environmental and Social Stewardship

April 7, 2021

CAFNR Announces Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees
The Precision and Automated Agriculture Lab (PAAL) in the CAFNR Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering recently teamed up with researchers in the CAFNR Division of Plant Sciences to study yield estimation of soybean breeding lines under drought stress using unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery and convolutional neural network. Their work resulted in a paper published by Biosystems Engineering. Pictured is Jing Zhou flying a drone at the Fisher Delta Research Center. Photo courtesy of Jing Zhou.

April 7, 2021

A Different Perspective
To aid in the continuing efforts to build CAFNR’s innovative research profile, the College is appointing Bruce Barrett as assistant dean in its Office of Research, a 0.50 FTE administrative assignment. Barrett most recently served as the interim director of the Division of Plant Sciences, taking the role in Sept. 2019.

April 5, 2021

Building CAFNR’s Research Profile
University of Missouri Extension specialists and experts work to cultivate and promote an atmosphere of lifelong learning among Missourians. Those specialists and experts work with Missourians of all ages. Here, Eric Bailey, assistant professor in the Division of Animal Sciences and state beef Extension specialist, talks with farmers and producers during a field day at the Forage Systems Research Center, located in Linneus, Mo.. Photo taken pre-COVID.

April 1, 2021

Keeping Missourians Up to Speed
Randall Westgren

March 25, 2021

Collective Entrepreneurship Research and Education for Socially Disadvantaged Small- and Medium-Food System Enterprises
Kiruba Krishnaswamy

March 18, 2021

Food Innovations to Address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – Zero Hunger