| Institution: | University of Missouri |
| Columbia, MO |
University of Missouri, Columbia Campus:
The University of Missouri, Columbia (Mizzou) is the flagship campus of the University of Missouri Missouri System and was established in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi. Mizzou is one of the nation’s top-tier Research 1 (R1) universities and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). University of Missouri is a nationally competitive, global university and Missouri’s largest public research university. Mizzou is one of only five universities nationwide that offers law, medicine, veterinary medicine, agriculture, engineering and a nuclear research reactor on one campus.
MU Extension is a partnership among the University of Missouri four campuses, Lincoln University of Missouri, the people of Missouri and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The candidate will have ample opportunities to work with Extension faculty and staff throughout the state of MO as well as neighboring states.
The Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering at the University of Missouri has a unique position combining the strengths of faculty and infrastructure from both the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) and the College of Engineering (CoE). The candidate will have many opportunities to foster collaborations with faculty in the Food Science Program, the Department of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering and others within CAFNR and beyond.