On January 16, U of M student-athletes began a new semester by walking through the doors of the newly-completed $166 million Athletes Village. A centerpiece of the five-building complex is the Land O’Lakes Center for Excellence.

​​A visionary Land O’Lakes investment: Thanks to $15 million in funding from Land O’Lakes, the new Land O’Lakes Center for Excellence houses a... Read more

Two U of M students landed coveted spots in the most recent cohort of Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders at Land O’Lakes. This year, ten new interns have been selected out of a pool of 163 applicants—a record high. The interns are college sophomores who are working with Land O’Lakes to find new ways to meet the challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050.  

Land O’Lakes participated in the Thanksgiving for Scholarships event on November 15, which was hosted by the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). Students and donors celebrated the impact of scholarships for more than 350 CFANS students.

Land O'Lakes representatives Megan Wolle, Pete Janzen, and Lydia Botham congratulated Land O'Lakes Multifunctional... Read more

The fifth annual International HR Case Competition was held at the Carlson School of Management November 9–11. Six teams of graduate students representing Australia, China, India, South Korea, and the United States competed to solve an international human resources challenge facing Land O'Lakes, the competition’s lead sponsor.

Hosted by the Carlson School’s Center for Human Resources... Read more

President Kaler joined Land O'Lakes leaders Lydia Botham and Nick Koewler to welcome students Elizabeth Alonzi, Rachel Anderson, Katie Enzenauer, Audrey Sebastian, and Blake Schweiner to the TCF Bank Stadium field at the September 30 Golden Gopher football game. The students are past and current participants of the Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders for Food Security fellowship. They... Read more

On September 8, 2017, U of M donors, students, staff, faculty, alumni, and other supporters gathered to celebrate the official launch of the public phase of a 10-year fundraising campaign called Driven: The University of Minnesota Campaign.

The goal is to raise $4 billion for students, faculty, and the U’s three-part mission of education, research, and outreach for the benefit... Read more

Allison Hohn recently received her M.S. in supply chain management from a new program at the Carlson School of Management at an August 16 commencement ceremony. Beth Ford, Group EVP and COO at Land O'Lakes, spoke to the graduates. The STEM-based program is one year long.

Hohn, who is a product development scientist in the Butter and Spreads Category within Dairy Foods, chose this... Read more