Celebrating Global Acclaim and Progress Amidst Challenges during Leadership Transition in MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

<p>Regarding <a href="http://canr.msu.edu">CANR</a>’s rankings in the <a href="https://research.msu.edu/msu-named-top-10-agriculture-and-forestry-college-in-new-report/">2021 Quacquarelli Symonds World Research Rankings</a>, Hendrick is justifiably proud.  “It’s an honor for us to be in the top 10,” says Hendrick. “If you look at where we sit within the U.S., we're still in the top handful of programs and always have been. Really, what this measures is our scientific impact, the quality of the work we do, the amount of scholarship we do, and the impact that has globally in terms of both generating basic knowledge and then also applying that to solve problems related to food and the environment. It speaks well to the long history of what we've done here and to the innovation that our faculty continue to do with the support of our staff in partnership with our graduate students, and in many cases, with additional help from undergraduate students as well.”</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ron_Hendrick">Hendrick</a> details the scope, scale, and impact of CANR’s academic programs, which range from the traditional disciplines in agriculture and natural resources to the home for the School of Packaging, the country's first packaging program, and the only one that awards PhDs, to programs like interior design and dietetics. </p><p>“We're a broad, diverse, and well-rounded college. And then of course we have AgBioResearch and MSU Extension that really help amplify the work that we do in terms of the breadth of our research scholarship and our creative endeavors. And then we get the information that we produce out to the communities, farms, families and big and small cities and rural areas around the state.”</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/KellyMillenbah">Millenbah</a>, who previously served as CANR senior associate dean, underscores the importance of the ‘all hands on deck’ culture in the college, especially over the past 12-14 months.  “It's been absolutely quite a year we have had to navigate as a result