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Agriculture building

Aug. 25, 2020

CAFNR Welcomes New Faculty
Cheryl Recker

Aug. 14, 2020

Q&A With Cheryl Recker
Darcy Wells, second from the left, poses with her CAFNR Office of Advancement team during the 2019 CAFNR Column Award banquet. Wells is retiring as the CAFNR senior executive director for advancement after a 30-plus-year career in higher education. Her final day was July 3.

July 22, 2020

A Lifelong Learner
Teresa Davis

June 11, 2020

Q&A With Teresa Davis
Robert Sites demonstrates his famous juggling of elephant dung during the Thailand Study Abroad program. Sites has led the program for 14 straight years, and was one of two Mizzou professors to earn the inaugural MU Study Abroad Teaching Excellence Award in 2020.

June 8, 2020

An Educational Experience
Peter Sutovsky was recently named a2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Nov. 27, 2019

‘The Pinnacle of My Career’
The University of Missouri recently announced that researchers in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources have received an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new national research center. The Swine Somatic Cell Genome Editing Center will focus on aiding the development of biomedical treatments for human diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

June 26, 2019

Aiding Disease Treatment
Michelle Enger was recently named director for the CAFNR Office of Marketing and Communications. Enger has been the marketing communications coordinator in the CAFNR Office of Marketing and Communications since 2011. Enger’s new role as director is effective July 1, 2019.

June 25, 2019

‘Sharing CAFNR’s Message’
Robin Rotman has taken a unique path to becoming an assistant professor at the University of Missouri. She joined the School of Natural Resources after 10 years of practicing law; first at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and more recently in private practice in Washington, D.C. Rotman holds a bachelor’s degree from Sewanee: The University of the South, a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

June 14, 2019

Preparing Students for the Workforce
Mary Hendrickson has a teaching and research focus at MU. She teaches undergraduate sustainable agriculture and food system courses, as well as a graduate course in food systems. She has served as a guest lecturer in numerous classrooms as well, from animal science to nutrition to peace studies. She was recently awarded with a 2019-20 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant, where she will be teaching sustainable agriculture in Iceland.

March 8, 2019

An Icelandic Adventure