Accolades
June 25, 2021
Leon Schumacher Receives 2021 Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education
Leon Schumacher, professor and agricultural systems technology program coordinator, received the 2021 Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education. This award recognizes MU faculty who have provided outstanding leadership in strengthening MU’s international dimension. Schumacher’s research focuses on topics such as precision agriculture, smart farm initiative, Internet of Things (IOT), automated farming systems and energy conservation including biodiesel, biomass and ethanol, as well as curriculum-related issues associated with agricultural systems technology.
June 25, 2021
Alba Argerich Receives 2021 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award
Alba Argerich, assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources, received the 2021 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
June 25, 2021
Felix Fritschi Receives 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity
Felix Fritschi, C. Alice Donaldson Professor in Bioenergy Crop Physiology and Genetics in the Division of Plant Sciences, received the 2021 Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity.
June 14, 2021
Hendrickson Receives Award Through The Agriculture, Food and Human Value Society
Mary Hendrickson, associate professor in Rural Sociology, received the Excellence in Instruction Award.
May 24, 2021
Biochemists Receive New TRIUMPH Funding Initiative Through MU School of Medicine
A new pilot grant program led by Senior Associate Dean Bill Fay announced 30 awards to School of Medicine (SOM) investigators, including multiple awards to MU Biochemistry faculty.
May 21, 2021
Pei Liu Earns Dr. Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant
Pei Liu, an assistant professor of hospitality management, was a 2021 recipient of one of the Dr. Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grants.
May 21, 2021
CAFNR Faculty, Staff and Students Earn MU Graduate and Postdoctoral Awards
Numerous CAFNR faculty, staff and students were recently honored during the seventh annual MU Graduate and Postdoctoral Award ceremony.
May 20, 2021
No-Ya Yu Wins “Three Minute Thesis” Competition
No-Ya Yu won the “Three Minute Thesis” competition.
May 19, 2021
Jenny Melo Velasco Receives Dissertation Research Funding from Rural Sociology Society
Jenny Melo Velasco received a $2,000 award to fund her research on "Digital Agricultural Technologies in Latin America."
May 19, 2021
Jamille Palacios Rivera Receives Professional Development Award from The Huddle
Jamille Palacios Rivera received a 2020-21 professional development award.