Stories
Dec. 16, 2024
Young Alumna Kate Thompson pursued old passions and found new ones at CAFNR
While obtaining her degree in agribusiness management (December ’22), Kate Thompson found her passion for commodity training and expanded on her previous agricultural experience.
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. 12, 2024
CAFNR Students Selected as Missouri Farm Bureau Ambassadors
Claire Walker, sophomore agribusiness management major, and Karson Calvin, junior agricultural education major, were named the 2025 Missouri Farm Bureau Ambassadors at the 110th Missouri Farm Bureau annual meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks during the second weekend in December.
Dec. 12, 2024
Recent food science graduate wins trip to QCS
As a result of his success at the National Dairy Products Evaluation contest on April 16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kevin Trieu (B.S. Food Science and Nutrition ’24) received an all-expense paid trip to the QCS Fall Annual Conference held on Oct. 20 – 22 at the Hilton Denver City Center located in Denver, Colorado. Trieu placed first in the All Products division at the National Dairy Products Evaluation contest, winning both the QCS trip and a $1,000 donation from QCS to support the MU Dairy Products Evaluation Team. Trieu was accompanied by his coach, Richard Linhardt. Trieu received his degree…
Dec. 12, 2024
Biochemistry student wins first place undergraduate poster at Midwest Drosophila Conference
Hannah Rice, a sophomore biochemistry major, presented a poster at the Midwest Drosophila Conference held in Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 16 -17.
Dec. 11, 2024
Fisher Delta Research, Extension & Education Center researchers to present at Agricultural Educational Conferences for farmers
The National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice, Southern Soybean and Corn, Delta States Irrigation and the Southern Precision Ag Conferences will be held Jan. 27-28, 2025, at the Hilton Convention Center in East Memphis, Tenn.The conference will mark the 28th year that University of Missouri, along with six other mid-south state universities, has co-sponsored these conferences. The four faculty from the University of Missouri are among the more than 59 presenters representing many agricultural disciplines and crops along with researchers from 10 universities across the U.S. There are also two farmers and a certified crop advisor from Missouri speaking. Farmers…
Dec. 11, 2024
Farmers gain financial insights through innovative database, personalized education
For more than a decade, Division of Applied Social Sciences faculty Jon Simonsen and Bruce Fowler have been working to create a robust financial database tool for farmers, while also helping producers hone their own financial skills. “The ultimate goal is to be able to go out there and get the best financial information to enable producers to make the best decisions for their farms and their families,” said Simonsen, professor of agricultural education. Jon Simonsen The project makes use of dozens of agricultural education teachers at high schools and technical schools across the Midwest. These teachers offer adult classes…
Dec. 10, 2024
Graduate Student Spotlight: Q&A with Jhonathan Ordinola Diaz
What is your research focus? My research focuses on energy policy and their implications on the population. Currently, I am conducting research on the public perception of nuclear waste in Missouri, learning from the public’s experience, to approximate the concerns that will occur in a future permanent repository, yet to be defined by the Department of Energy, but needed soon. Jhonathan Ordinola Diaz Why does this field interest you? I grew up in a small town in northern Peru (Pucala), surrounded by huge sugar cane fields owned by a single company. Our water, air and energy sources were closely affected…
Dec. 9, 2024
Fall 2024 CAFNR Senior Spotlight
Congratulations to the graduating seniors!
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…