Audrey Sebastian, ’19, a mechanical engineering major, traveled to South Africa and Tanzania in June with the Land O’Lakes’ Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders program to learn more about hunger, agriculture, and sustainability. During the year-long program, program participants work with Land O’Lakes to find new ways to feed the world using fewer resources.

In Tanzania, Sebastian... Read more

Mechanical Engineering major Rachel Anderson, ’19 is part of the year-long Land O’Lakes’ Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders program, working with Land O’Lakes to find new ways to feed the world using fewer resources. Anderson, who had never travelled abroad before, was among the U of M students who traveled to South Africa and Tanzania in June. Their goal was to learn more about hunger,... Read more

In June, 50 high school juniors and seniors from Minnesota and beyond learned that working at Land O’Lakes involves much more than making butter.

The students visited the company’s headquarters in Arden Hills as part of the Women Mean Business leadership experience. Run by the U of M’s Carlson School of Management, the week-long program exposes high-achieving girls with an interest in... Read more

Austin Kraft (far right, above) thought he knew how to be an effective leader. He was a drum major in his high school’s marching band and a captain of the speech team. He also got involved student government when he started at the U.

That changed after Kraft, who just finished his first year in the U’s College of Science and Engineering, took part in LeaderShape. Sponsored by Land O’... Read more

Could skim milk powder be used one day to make plastic milk cartons? Marc Hillmyer, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering, is working with scientists from Land O’Lakes to find out if it’s possible.

Hillmyer and his group have been creating sustainable polymers from renewable resources like corn and even agricultural waste. Polymers are the... Read more

“The LeaderShape program is contagious—once you participate, you will never be the same,” says Neil Mawah, a junior accounting major who attended the six-day leadership program during winter break 2017. “It challenges you to think deep and big, and to open your eyes to many possibilities as an aspiring leader.”

Neil was one of 60 U of M students participating in LeaderShape, a... Read more

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