Just a quick note to those who might be following along… I finally figured out this evening (with some good guidance from Chuck Zimmerman) how to post a bunch of the pictures from the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day on AgWired’s Flickr photo site. You can see the pictures by clicking here. I’m going to go back and insert this …

A common theme that the Missouri Colleges Fund student scholars heard during the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day was that many people start down one career path toward a destination but end up somewhere they never expected. Folks like Vanessa Stewart and Judy Lamb talked to the students about how their lives started out in one job and winded and …

Lots of people would like to try all types of new and innovative things at work, but not everyone is lucky enough to work at a place that encourages true, outside-the-box thinking. But, as the Missouri Colleges Fund scholars found out during their Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day, that kind of behavior is heartily encouraged. Joedd Biggs is a junior …

We’ve heard a lot from the good folks at Novus International as they have been trying to help the Missouri Colleges Fund scholars get a better grasp on the wide variety of jobs available once they graduate from their science and agricultural degree programs. But what about the students? What do they think about what they’re hearing? Well, they’ve been …

I have to admit, you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a more optimistic bunch than the folks at Novus International. It’s no wonder they gladly took on this project of taking some of the state’s best and brightest science and agricultural college students around their operations in the St. Louis area, plus setting up tours at nearby Pfizer and Monsanto. …

Motivation starts from within… while the students who toured the Novus International facilities in suburban St. Louis might have already known that (they are Missouri Colleges Fund scholars, after all), it sure doesn’t hurt to reinforce that point. Judy Lamb, Novus’ Product Registration Manager, emphasized that motivational drive during her talk with the students. I caught up with her just …

Students on the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day are getting a great opportunity to see for themselves just how exciting and diverse a career in agriculture and science can be. During their tour of the Novus facilities in suburban St. Louis, the students heard from many different workers at the agri-business. And some of those workers have worn many different …

Define your role in your job… don’t let your role define you. That’s one of the messages the students participating in the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day heard as they began their tour of the company’s facilities, plus visiting Pfizer and Monsanto in St. Louis. Sheena Arink, an analytical chemist with Novus, showed the students, along with some of their …

After a quick breakfast and introduction to Novus International, the college students from the Novus Undergraduate Networking Day were off to see the chemical and biological labs at Novus’ St. Louis location. Dr. Joyce Cacho, Chief Sustainability Officer for Novus, told me they’ve put together a program to show the students the application of what they are studying in their …

One of the reasons the students on the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day were able to take this great tour of the St. Louis facilities at Novus, Pfizer and Monsanto was because of the scholarships they received from the Missouri Colleges Fund, a not-for-profit group of 16 small, private Missouri colleges and universities that work together to acquire resources to …