CAFNR

A student poses for a portrait.

Oct. 25, 2024

Personal Financial Planning students practice their career skills and help fellow students as Peer Financial Coaches

The Office for Financial Success offers many free tools to students to improve their financial wellbeing and literacy skills, and many Personal Financial Planning students work in the office to help their peers.
Three students pose in a kitchen.

Oct. 24, 2024

Dietetics students host first pop-up business plan through partnership with Mizzou’s Campus Dining Services

Students now have the opportunity to execute a nutritional business plan on campus, taking another step toward becoming certified dietitians.
Collage of portraits of Van Doren and Barros Rios

Oct. 23, 2024

Plant Science and Technology and Biochemistry researchers harness DOE technology to further biofuels, basic science

Researchers at the University of Missouri have been studying plants to help farmers improve food production since the inception of the university itself, but as plants become pathways to filling other public needs — like biofuels — it opens doors to researchers who want to gain more insight into the ways that plants operate.
Horses grazing.

Oct. 22, 2024

2024 MU Online Horse Auction & Fundraiser bidding is open

The 18th annual MU Online Horse Auction & Fundraiser features nine horses and two mules, all trained and raised by students in the Division of Animal Sciences Equine Program.
A student poses for a photo in France.

Oct. 22, 2024

New study abroad program to France gives insight to agricultural education and industry

Abby Loesing, senior agricultural education (communication and leadership emphasis) major, traveled to France on the maiden voyage of the agricultural education study abroad program.
a group of people gather around controls on a tripod with a drone flying in the foreground

Oct. 18, 2024

CAFNR receives funding from Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development to provide agricultural drone trainings to Missourians

CAFNR and MU Extension faculty practice landing an imaging drone during the first of several "train the trainer" courses that will allow them to teach agricultural drone skills to Missourians.

Oct. 16, 2024

Graduate student spotlight: Q&A with Hunter McConnell

Hunter McConnell is pursuing a Ph.D. in Animal Sciences.
Beetle collection in historic entomological museum.

Oct. 15, 2024

Celebrate historic milestone, learn more about fascinating world of insects

The Enns Entomological Museum, part of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) at the University of Missouri, is opening its doors (and cabinets of fascinating specimens) to the local community in celebration of its 150th anniversary.
Leah Gastonguay poses in a field wearing a gold Mizzou shirt and a tan hat.

Oct. 10, 2024

CAFNR graduate student receives sustainable agriculture grant

Leah Gastonguay, Ph.D. student in Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences (emphasis in Entomology), along with her advisor, Debbie Finke, professor of Plant Science and Technology, was awarded $19,792 for the project, "Companion Planting to Optimize Beneficial Insect Ecosystem Services in Pepper Cropping Systems."
Arshdeep Singh

Oct. 9, 2024

Food, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences graduate student receives national scholarship

Arshdeep Singh, a food and hospitality systems Ph.D. student, was recently awarded the Frank DeBenedetti Scholarship from the Northern American Meat Institute (NAMI) Scholarship Foundation.