Inside CAFNR
July 9, 2025
2025 CAFNR Joy of Discovery seed grant program winners announced
The fourth batch of proposals funded by CAFNR’s Joy of Discovery Seed Grant Program has been announced.
June 17, 2025
Get to know Kaylin Francisco
Francisco is the outreach coordinator at SW-REEC.
June 16, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – June 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, June 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
May 14, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – May 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, May 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
May 13, 2025
Get to Know Daniel Credeur
What are your job duties/job responsibilities in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources?I serve as an associate teaching professor in the Division of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences and as a CAFNR AI Fellow. My responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in nutrition and exercise physiology, mentoring students and supporting faculty efforts to responsibly integrate AI into teaching and research. I also participate in curriculum design, service activities and research projects that focus on increasing physical activity in and outside the classroom. How long have you worked in CAFNR?I joined CAFNR in Fall 2021 and have been grateful for…
April 9, 2025
Get to know Jeri Lou Zimmerman
Jeri Lou Zimmerman What are your job duties/job responsibilities in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources? I am the Director of CAFNR Grants. Our office handles the pre-award side of sponsored grants and contracts for all of CAFNR and the College of Business through a MOU which is mostly done by the Grant Writers in our office. I do help out with proposals as needed which it has been recently as we have an open position. My proposal specialties are USDA, commodity groups, and foundations. I leave the big NIH, NSF, DOE, and DOD for Angie Hake and…
April 9, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – April 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, February 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
March 13, 2025
Get to know Shannon Mulvania-Beck
Shannon Mulvania-Beck What are your job duties/job responsibilities in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources? I am the research writer on CAFNR’s communications team. I work with faculty and graduate students across the college to tell the stories of all of the amazing research that happens in CAFNR and the impact of that research. How long have you worked in CAFNR? Almost three years. What do you enjoy about working for CAFNR/Mizzou? I am a naturally curious person, and because of the nature of my role here along with the vast variety of the disciplines studied in CAFNR,…
March 13, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – March 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, February 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
March 7, 2025
MU Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center to host second Digital Agriculture Symposium
2024 DAREC Symposium participants discuss a poster presentation. The University of Missouri’s Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center (DAREC) is hosting its second Digital Agriculture Symposium, “Empowering Agriculture Using AI and Digital Agriculture Technology” in April. “The landscape of agriculture is changing rapidly as digital technology advances,” said Jianfeng Zhou, associate professor of Agricultural Systems Technology in MU’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. “We are delighted to be able to share these advances and some of our research in that space and help Missouri’s agricultural producers make informed decisions about incorporating these new technologies into their farming practices.”…