COLLEGES: Agriculture & Natural Resources
Acting dean (since July 2001): Robin Morgan
Mission statement: To improve the quality of life for Delaware and the global community through superior research, extension and education programs in agricultural and related disciplines.
Departments: Animal and Food Sciences
Bioresources Engineering
Entomology and Applied Ecology
Food and Resource
Economics
Plant and Soil Sciences
Student enrollment
(full-time and part-time, as of fall 2000):
702 undergraduate
137 graduate
Full-time faculty (as of fall 2000): 71
Significant events and accomplishments:
- Numerous new facilities were constructed, including the Allen Laboratory, a state-of-the-art biocontainment facility for poultry disease research; Lasher Laboratory, a poultry diagnostic lab and headquarters for the Research and Education Center in Georgetown; Livestock Teaching Pavilion on the Newark Farm; and Pesticide Research Facility at the Research and Education Center; and the Charles and Eleanor Paradee Center in Dover.
- The Center for Agricultural Biotechnology was created.
- New curricula were developed in natural resource management, wildlife conservation, environmental soil science and bioresources engineering technology.
- The animal and food sciences Ph.D. program was expanded to include food sciences; a Ph.D. program in entomology was created.
- Longwood Graduate Program was ranked No. 2 among graduate programs.
- Extension and outreach efforts expanded, including the Children, Youth and Families at Risk; Nutrient Management; and Food Safety programs.
- Two faculty members serve as presidents of national professional societies: Don Sparks, Soil Science Society of America, and Bill Saylor, Poultry Science Society.
