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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
Two United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grants, totaling almost $900,000, will allow Henry Nguyen to build on his research focus related to abiotic stress tolerance and disease resistance in plants, primarily soybeans. The grants will help Nguyen and his team tackle important issues related to soybeans, including waterlogging tolerance and soybean cyst nematodes (SCN). Flooding and SCN cause billions of dollars worth of damages every year.

Dec. 19, 2019

Studying Soybeans
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’
Students who are part of the Greater Ozark Center for Advance Professional Studies (GO CAPS) program in Monett are getting a first-hand look at the educational opportunities at the Southwest Research Center. GO CAPS Monett, a program dedicated to giving high school students hands-on learning experiences, introduced an agri-business/food systems strand to its curriculum last year. The group has used the Southwest Research Center as its classroom since it began. Photo courtesy of Kailee Mallory.

Nov. 8, 2019

Test Driving Their Careers
Agriculture sign

Oct. 24, 2019

CAFNR Welcomes New Faculty
A trio of researchers in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Division of Animal Sciences were recently honored with one of the more unique awards in their respective careers. (From left to right) Randy Prather, Kristin Whitworth and Kevin Wells were invited to the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) in mid-August to receive the Inventor of the Year award in the established company category. Also pictured is Dilip M. Shah, who earned an inventor award, and William Holtz, BAMSL's PTC Chair. Photo courtesy Marilyn Krebsbach, BAMSL.

Sept. 13, 2019

A Unique Honor