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 …

Some fortunate college students majoring in science and agricultural degrees have toured some of the leaders in agri-business in St. Louis. About a dozen recipients of Missouri Colleges Fund scholarships, funded by Novus International, Pfizer and Monsanto, have gotten the chance to see firsthand how these three companies work… and if they would be the kind of companies they would …

In just a few hours, I’ll be loading up in a bus that will take a group of college students majoring in the science and agricultural fields, some with their parents and college mentors, to tour three of the most influential agri-businesses in the St. Louis, MO. area: Novus International, Monsanto and Pfizer. Novus is sponsoring the Undergraduate Networking Day …

Some of the best and brightest undergrad students in science and agriculture have gathered in St. Louis, Mo. for the Novus International Undergraduate Networking Day… a day when the students, their parents and educational sponsors will get to see firsthand how some of the best agri-businesses in the country operate. They’ll tour Novus’ St. Louis facilities, as well as see …

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Aldo Leopold, American ecologist, forester and environmentalist Hello, from St. Louis, Mo., where tomorrow I’ll be following around some the best and brightest Missouri students in the fields of …