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Close association with the departmental research program affords unusual opportunities to broaden a student's perspective of the research process. Each department has several areas of concentration within the discipline. The Department of Bioresources Engineering provides concentrations in soil and water resources, structures and environment, power and machinery, or food process engineering. The Department of Food and Resource Economics offers concentrations in quantitative economics, international agricultural trade, economic development, resource economics, and marketing and policy. The Department of Entomology and Applied Ecology offers graduate research opportunities in both applied and basic research in most areas including field entomology, biological control, physiology, ecology and plant-insect interactions.
The Department of Animal and Food Sciences has three graduate degree offerings: the Ph.D. in Animal Science, the M.S. in Animal Science and the M.S. in Food Science. For the Ph.D., a student may specialize in nutrition, physiology, pathology, molecular biology/ biotechnology, or food science. A student in the M.S. program in Animal Science may specialize in animal management in addition to any of the disciplines listed for the Ph.D. The M.S. program in Food Science emphasizes food safety with a focus on food processing and packaging.
In Plant and Soil Sciences, areas of concentration include plant breeding, tissue culture, molecular biology, pathology, plant improvement, physiology and horticulture. In Soil Science the areas are soil chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and management. A specialized M.S. program, the University of Delaware/Longwood program in Public Horticulture Administration is a 2-year Master's degree program requiring a thesis.
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources houses modern research laboratories and state-of-the-art equipment for graduate study in Worrilow Hall, Townsend Hall, the Charles C. Allen, Jr. Biotechnology Laboratory, the Fischer Greenhouse and other buildings located on the Delaware Experiment Station. Field plots, a 35-acre woodlot, an insectary, environmental growth chambers, and animal research facilities are available for graduate research. An excellent library and computing site are located in the College.
