Inside CAFNR
Aug. 11, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – August 2025
Catch up with CAFNR, August 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings.
Aug. 10, 2025
Message from Heike Bücking
Dear Alumni and Friends, Welcome to the Fall semester. I am delighted to share with you some of the remarkable achievements in 2024 from the Division of Plant Science and Technology (DPST). Our faculty and staff continue to provide learning and leadership opportunities for our students in classrooms, research laboratories, field, and international settings. Our mission is to keep students on track towards graduation, and to provide them with high quality education and the foundation for life-long career success. Recent investments into a new teaching space enabled us to equip a new digital teaching lab with computers…
July 8, 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 15, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – June 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, June 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
May 13, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – May 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, May 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
April 8, 2025
Get to know 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 Monica…
April 8, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – April 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, February 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
March 12, 2025
Get to know 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…
March 12, 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR – March 2025
Catch Up with CAFNR, February 2025: A photo gallery of CAFNR happenings!
March 6, 2025
MU Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center to host second Digital Agriculture Symposium
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.” The symposium consists of a…