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Dec. 22, 2021

Interdisciplinary Plant Group Celebrates 40th Year

Established in 1981, the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2021. The IPG is a community of University of Missouri (MU) faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professionals pursuing transformative ideas in the field of plant biology. The group seeks to encourage cooperation between scientists engaged in plant molecular biology, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, evolution, ecology and computer science. Doug Randall (center), founding director of IPG, was part of IPG from the beginning. In the early 1970s, MU plant biologists already had a loose association for seminars and to share resources. In 1981 the group received the…
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Dec. 21, 2021

Dain Jacobs Receives the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

Dain Jacob, doctoral student in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, has received the prestigious American Heart Associate (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship. The purpose of this fellowship is to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising students who are in a predoctoral or clinical health professional degree training program. Jacob is a doctoral student in the Limberg lab.
Maple trees tapped at the Baskett Research Center

Dec. 15, 2021

An Untapped Industry

Maple syrup production is most known in the Northeastern United States, but is there a potential maple industry in the lower Midwest? Hannah Hemmelgarn, assistant program director of the Center for Agroforestry, recently received a grant totaling $473,481 for the project, Putting Maple on the Map in the Lower Midwest, to explore just that.
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Dec. 15, 2021

Potential for a Warmer Winter

Tony Lupo, a professor of atmospheric science in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR), said this past fall – the months of September, October and November – was the sixth warmest in Missouri since the state began keeping records in 1889.
The agriculture degree program in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) allows students to create their own unique college experience. Students tailor a course of study to their interests, choosing concentration areas from CAFNR’s other degree programs. That opportunity was exactly what Chase Monte was looking for when he arrived at MU. Photo courtesy of Chase Monte.

Dec. 13, 2021

Building his own degree

Agriculture program allowed Chase Monte to combine his interest areas into one degree.

Dec. 2, 2021

Taking Risk

Measuring financial risk tolerance is not always simple as many over or underestimate their true risk tolerance. What does this mean for investors and financial planners? That’s where the research of University of Missouri professor is coming in. Abed Rabbani teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in PFP. He also performs research focusing on risk tolerance and risk literacy. Abed Rabbani, assistant professor in personal financial planning (PFP), teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the department, along with performing research in risk tolerance. “Risk management is a broad topic,” said Rabbani. “My specific area focuses on the measurement of risk…
girl with short blonde hair and glasses in a blue and white gingham shirt standing in a field of sunflowers

Nov. 29, 2021

Q&A With Emma Critchfield

Critchfield is a junior in plant sciences.
Through his job with MFA Incorporated, Charlie Ebbesmeyer helps producers improve their crop health and growth. He meets with growers in the offseason to build plans for the upcoming growing season and then makes in-season fertility and chemical recommendations based off of the plans. His goal is to make sure the grower’s crop reaches its full potential. Photo courtesy of Charlie Ebbesmeyer.

Nov. 29, 2021

Plant Sciences Degree Helps CAFNR Alum Connect with Producers

Charlie Ebbesmeyer puts his plant sciences degree to use each day through his job with MFA Incorporated.
Joe speaks at Field Day

Nov. 23, 2021

Q&A with Joe Horner

In September 2018, Joe visited with attendees of the Forage Systems Research Center field day, which took place in Linneus, Missouri. The event focused on drought topics. What do you do in your current role with the University of Missouri? Joe speaking to Missourians about making the most of the new USDA Dairy Programs. I’m an extension specialist with the University of Missouri’s Division of Applied Social Sciences. I’m working on a couple of grant-funded feasibility studies and a set of MU guides on the economics of including warm-season grasses in pasture…
Lowell Mohler (BS Ag ’58) was recently honored with the 66th Annual Distinguished Service Award from the Mizzou Alumni Association. He is pictured here with his wife, JoAnn.

Nov. 12, 2021

A Legacy of Service

CAFNR alumnus Lowell Mohler honored with MAA’s Distinguished Service Award. Here he stands with his wife in a green grass field.