Stories
July 18, 2022
CAFNR Communications Wins Two National Agricultural Alumni Development Association Awards
NAADA annually celebrates the achievements of its members through Individual Achievement Awards and awards for exemplary publications and projects in several divisions.
July 13, 2022
Rob Myers Wins the 2022 Agronomic Education and Extension Award
Rob Myers, adjunct professor of plant science and technology and director of the MU Center for Regenerative Agriculture, was awarded the Agronomic Education and Extension Award from the American Society of Agronomy. The Agronomic Education and Extension Award recognizes career excellence in education and/or extension. The emphasis of the award is on the individual’s educational innovations or unique approaches developed and used successfully to encourage learning. This includes demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly, influence attitudes, and motivate change in audience action.
July 13, 2022
CAFNR Ag-celerator for Agricultural Technologies (CAAT) Winners Announced
Two CAFNR faculty and their teams were recently awarded inaugural CAAT grants.
July 12, 2022
Alan Spell and Sarah Low Receive Community, Economic and Workforce Research Award
The award recognizes their “Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties” report.
July 7, 2022
Moving the MOAES Forward
Restructured experiment station centers focused on sharing agricultural advances with Missouri farmers and ranchers.
July 5, 2022
Q&A with Anthony Ohmes
Anthony is a field specialist in agronomy serving the Southeast region.
June 28, 2022
Zinc Key Regulator of Sperm Functions During Capacitation Process
Scientists have struggled to fully understand how male sperm cells function and why they sometimes fail to fertilize female eggs, which has implications for both livestock farmers aiming to maximize food production, as well as human couples struggling with infertility. In a new study at the University of Missouri, researchers found that zinc ion plays a crucial regulatory role in the sperm capacitation process, or series of changes sperm undergo in the female reproductive tract that enable them to fertilize an egg. Michal Zigo, a research scientist at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR), from the laboratory…
June 27, 2022
An Outstanding Honor
Four biochemistry students earned Mizzou '39 honors in March.
June 27, 2022
SCN Coalition Receives Public Relations Honor
The SCN Coalition is a national public-private partnership that includes the University of Missouri Plant Science and Technology Extension.
June 21, 2022
Jaume Padilla Receives the 2023 EEP Impact Award
Jaume Padill is an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology.