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Jackie Limberg

Aug. 13, 2025

Limberg awarded Millsap Distinguished Professorship

Jacqueline Limberg, associate professor, Division of Food, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, is one of three faculty from across Mizzou awarded the Millsap Distinguished Professorship.

Students pose with flowers.

July 24, 2025

Mizzou Student Chapter of the American Institute of Floral Designers Win Awards at AIFD National Symposium

The MU Student American Institute of Floral Designers (SAIFD) Chapter placed 2nd in the nation in the student competition during the American Institute of Floral Designers National Symposium in Palm Springs, July 12-15.

Historic columns in sunlight

July 23, 2025

2025 C-DRIG recipients announced

The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Office of Research offers the CAFNR Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (C-DRIG) of up to $2,000 to support or partially support dissertation research projects proposed by doctoral students in the College. Eligible students will have completed their coursework and have advanced to candidacy or will advance to candidacy within six months of the C-DRIG awards. Proposals are evaluated by the CAFNR Research Council, an advisory body that advises CAFNR Office of Research and is made up of representatives from each Division in the College. This year, six awardees were granted $2,000 each. The…

A student in a lab.

July 22, 2025

CAFNR Students Selected for Honors College 2025 Cherng Summer Scholars Program

The Cherng Summer Scholars program allows Honors College students at the University of Missouri to explore their passions through research projects aimed at questions they are interested in analyzing.

Agriculture Building

July 9, 2025

2025 CAFNR Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (C-DRIG) winners announced

The CAFNR Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (C-DRIG) are offered through the CAFNR Office of Research. The C-DRIG grant supports up to $2,000 or partially support dissertation research projects proposed by doctoral students in the College.

A group of students pose with a plaque.

July 9, 2025

Mizzou Torq’N Tigers find success at the International 1/4 Scale Tractor Design Competition

Torq’N Tigers had two teams competing in the ASABE International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition this summer.

Mackenna Rodgers posing.

July 9, 2025

Recent CAFNR graduate selected for Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Mackenna Rodgers (B.S. Biochemistry ’25) was selected to participate in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

A student working in a lab.

July 9, 2025

Biochemistry student wins American Association for Cancer Research Undergraduate Scholar Award

Blake Arciga, senior biochemistry major, was awarded the American Association for Cancer Research Undergraduate Scholar Award for his work in Satyanarayana Rachagani’s veterinary medicine and surgery lab.

Mathew Kimaku smiling.

July 9, 2025

CAFNR student wins Remington R. Williams Award

Mathew Kimaku, Mizzou undergraduate majoring in health science and nutrition & exercise physiology, was chosen as one of seven recipients across the university system of the Remington R. Williams Award.

Cecilia Rocha

July 2, 2025

Cecilia Constantino Rocha receives ASAS Young Scholar Award

Rocha is an assistant research professor in livestock systems in the Division of Animal Sciences.