05/06/2024
Congratulations to our graduates, and a special shout out to our alumni keynote speaker Jonathan Slaght!
Announcing CFANS Commencement 2024 keynote and student speakers | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
CFANS Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony | Friday, May 3, 2024 at 2 p.m. | 3M Arena at Mariucci Keynote Address | James Luby (PhD ’82 Plant Breeding) is a professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota where he has directed research in fruit crops breeding and...
01/24/2024
Tracking tigers in the Thai jungle during a short-term study abroad program | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
HENRY PARKS, JUNIOR, DOUBLE MAJOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT AND FISHERIES, WILDLIFE AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGYAs students studying wildlife, it’s difficult to get a foot in the door to work with charismatic animals such as tigers. CFAN3504, “Vertebrate Research Design and Fi...
01/11/2024
From roadkill to research: Collect dead wildlife to help science
A new statewide network is launching in Minnesota with a goal to create a large database to track ecosystem changes and monitor environmental health into the future.
01/03/2024
Researchers hope to educate, answer more questions with local fish - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper
SIBLEY — Local alligator gar are playing a key role in ongoing research projects at St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge. United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Minnesota hope to answer future questions by continuing to study the gar. Kayla Kimmel, a Fisheries Biolog...
04/21/2022
Congratulations to 2022 Norman S. Baldwin Scholarship winner Christopher Rounds (Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology - Univ. of Minnesota Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center), who is researching how to optimize sampling for detecting aquatic invasive species. Many thanks to scholarship sponsor Great Lakes Fishery Commission for its long-time support of scientists!