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Learning Through Seeing

Learning Through Seeing

Chris Starbuck blends his love of photography and nature

Chris Starbuck has found success blending his long term passions for photography and plants.

Exchanging Ideas

Exchanging Ideas

MU Hosted Five African Scholars During Fall 2012

Five Faculty Exchange Program (FEP) scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania spent the Fall 2012 semester at MU. Prior to arriving in Columbia, the FEP scholars competed for the five positions among nearly 80 applicants. Once selected, they developed plans of work that outlined their professional objectives and goals for their 14 week stay [...]

Celebrate with CAFNR

Celebrate with CAFNR

Let CAFNR help you decorate for the holiday season

The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources offers a variety of specialty holiday decorating items – all benefitting student groups and student learning opportunities. Tiger Garden, CAFNR’s student-run florist, offers holiday decorating services, wreaths, garlands, trees, fresh centerpieces and, of course their most popular item, poinsettias. They charge $30/hour for decorating. Their wreaths, garlands [...]

Five CAFNR Alum Receive Mizzou Alumni Association Awards

Five CAFNR Alum Receive Mizzou Alumni Association Awards

CAFNR Alumni Don Johnson, B.S. '57, Brock Hessing B.S. ‘60, Ritchie Davis, B.S. '78, David Pearce, B.S.’84, and Bill Newham, B.S. '71, M.Ed. '78, were honored for their ongoing leadership and service to the University of Missouri with some of the Mizzou Alumni Association’s highest honors. Both Johnson and Hessing received the Alumni Legacy award. [...]

Tom Johnson Receives Provost Award

Tom Johnson Receives Provost Award

Tom Johnson, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri, was one of two recipients of the 2012 MU Provost's Award for Leadership in International Education. The award recognize faculty who have provided outstanding leadership in strengthening MU's international dimension. Johnson joined the MU faculty in 1997 as the Frank Miller Professor of Agricultural [...]

Scouting for Leadership

Scouting for Leadership

CAFNR faculty serve as leaders for the Boy Scouts

CAFNR works hard to provide leadership opportunities for its students. Many of its faculty and staff also take those roles on in the community – especially in Boy Scouts.