CAFNR

March 11, 2013

Easier Cancer Detection?

A more accurate and less invasive breast cancer detection tool is being developed by Susan Deutscher and Thomas Quinn, both professors of Biochemistry.

March 11, 2013

History in Wood and Oil

William Henry Hatch was born near Georgetown, Ky. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and practiced as a circuit attorney until 1860. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a captain and then as assistant adjutant general. In March 1863, Hatch was assigned to duty as assistant commissioner of exchange of prisoners. Hatch was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth through Fifty-third Congresses (1879 – 1895), during which time he served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894. After his…

Feb. 8, 2013

Academic Co-Stars

The Rev. Dr. Samuel Spahr Laws (1824-1921) was President of the University of Missouri from 1876 to 1889. His interest in science led to the establishment of the School of Engineering and the building of Laws Observatory. Laws financed the observatory with his personal funds. Laws made his fortune from the invention of the ticker tape machine, used at stock exchanges for decades. (Laws hired a penniless would-be inventor named Thomas Edison to install them. Edison later, under direction of Laws, installed an electric dynamo to bring electricity to Academic Hall — an early light bulb…

Dec. 14, 2012

How Mizzou Got Ag

It’s taken for granted today that the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources should be part of the University of Missouri. In the days when Missouri was struggling to recover from the Civil War and had no ag college, this was no cut-and-dried proposition.

Nov. 27, 2012

This Bug’s for Mizzou

Aphis mizzou, a new member of the aphid family, has been officially described in October in Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that describes newly identified organisms.

Nov. 9, 2012

Border Ruffian Savant

If George Clinton Swallow harvested anything, it was controversy.

Nov. 9, 2012

New Experiential Lab

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), one of the world’s leading agricultural processors, has given the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) a gift of $1 million to support a dedicated laboratory space designed specifically for student experiential learning. The ADM Center for Agricultural Development, to be located in the Agricultural Engineering building on MU’s east campus, will provide space for valuable student-faculty interactions, enhanced student team learning, and capstone design projects. “We’re proud of our partnership with ADM and the investment they are making in CAFNR and our students,” said Thomas Payne, vice chancellor and…

Oct. 15, 2012

Solving the SCN Mystery

For 50 years, the world’s soybean crop has depended on the use of cyst nematode resistant varieties of beans, but no one knew how these plants fought off the nematode pests. Now, the secrets of resistant soybean plants are finally coming to light.

Oct. 12, 2012

From the Soil, Medicine

For a century and a quarter, Sanborn has yielded scientific information about the health and best use of Missouri soils, soil erosion, fertilizer run-off, crop rotation, and best methods to recover exhausted soils.

Oct. 3, 2012

Breaking HIV’s Resistance

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can contain dozens of different mutations, called polymorphisms. In a recent study an international team of researchers, including University of Missouri scientists, found that one of those mutations, called 172K, made certain forms of the virus more susceptible to treatment.