Inside CAFNR
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.”…
March 6, 2025
Plant Science & Technology welcomes new faculty
Emily Althoff has joined CAFNR as an assistant extension professor and state extension specialist in urban entomology. Hers is a joint position with Lincoln University in Jefferson City, where Althoff serves as an assistant extension professor. Her extension program focuses on the intersection of insects in our everyday lives (our homes, gardens and trees), and her research is in insect chemical ecology; how insects use their sense of smell to navigate the world around them. Althoff received two graduate fellowships, and has interned at both the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Illinois Natural History Survey: Insect…
Feb. 12, 2025
Get to know Derek Brake
Derek Brake What are your job duties/job responsibilities in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources? I am an assistant professor in the Division of Animal Sciences. My current appointment is 45% research, 45% teaching and 10% service. In other words, I teach several 4000/7000-level courses, advise students, and participate on committees while also conducting fundamental research designed to understand how to better meet the nutrient requirements of ruminants. How long have you worked in CAFNR? I joined CAFNR in August of 2018. What do you enjoy about working for CAFNR/Mizzou? I grew up around agriculture and take pride in…
Feb. 12, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – February 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, February 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
Dec. 12, 2024
Catch Up With CAFNR – December 2024
Shuangyu Xu, assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources, received the CAFNR Golden Apple Award Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in a surprise ceremony led by Bryan Garton, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Associate Director of the School of Natural Resources, and staff from CAFNR’s Office of Academic Programs. Jason Young, instructor in the School of Natural Resources, received the Golden Apple Award on Dec. 5, 2024, in a surprise ceremony led by Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, associate director of the School of Natural Resources and director of SNR undergraduate studies and Bryan Garton, senior…
Dec. 9, 2024
Message from Dojin Ryu
It has been a busy year for the Division of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences (FNES)! I have just completed my first full year as director. I am pleased with progress we are making in our mission areas of teaching, research and extension. I share with you here a few highlights! FNES welcomed 126 new undergraduates in August; a 25% increase from last year! Total combined opening day enrollment in our two majors, Food Science & Nutrition and Nutrition & Exercise Physiology (NEP), was 426. Also in August, we welcomed a “new,” full-time academic advisor, Tammy Conrad. Tammy will be…
Nov. 22, 2024
The gratitude of latitude
Alumnus Al McQuinn establishes a legacy at Mizzou.
Nov. 12, 2024
Catch Up With CAFNR – November 2024
Vice Chancellor and Dean Daubert with the CAFNR Staff Advisory Council during his “Tackle Goals Together” open office hours Oct. 23. From left: Amy Grus, Michelle Niemeyer, Secley Kennedy, Dean Daubert, Matt Fleming, TaylorAnn Washburn and Shannon Fickess. Eric Aldrich shares his teaching journey and philosophy with the crowd, including his family and some of his students, at the 2024 Maxine Christopher Shutz Lecture for Distinguished Teaching Tuesday, Oct. 22. This award honors the first female full-term member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, and is given to a faculty member each year who demonstrates extra effort to…
Oct. 28, 2024
Message from Harvey James
Welcome to the Fall 2024 edition of the Division of Applied Social Sciences (DASS) alumni newsletter! I am Harvey James, Director of the Division. I was formally appointed Director in March of this year. I was Interim Director for about 15 months prior to that. Some of you may know our previous Division Directors: Joe Parcell (2017-2022), Jill Findeis (2011-2017), and the late Mike Nolan (1995-2011). DASS is one of six Divisions within the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR). Our focus is on the social sciences. The other five divisions (animal sciences; plant science and technology;…
Oct. 17, 2024
Catch Up With CAFNR – October 2024
CAFNR Vice Chancellor and Dean Christopher Daubert (right), poses with the game-day ball, along with Chad Higgins (left), Vice Chancellor for Extension and Engagement, and Srinand Sreevatsan (center), Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, on Ag Day 2024 at the Mizzou football game vs. Vanderbilt. CAFNR staff members Genevieve Howard and Christina Meier shared a laugh along with their insights at the LinkedIn training workshops Sept. 23 in the Ag Building. Senior Associate Dean Bryan Garton introduces the featured speakers at the annual CAFNR Scholarship Donor Recognition Dinner Thursday, Oct. 10, at Memorial Union. This event brings together scholarship…