Everything about Cornell University College Of Agriculture And Life Sciences totally explained
The
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (abbreviated to
CALS or
Ag School) at
Cornell University is a
statutory college of
New York and is considered by many to be the top school of
agriculture-related sciences in the world. With about 3,100
undergraduate and 1,000
graduate students enrolled, it's the third-largest college of its kind in the
United States and the second-largest
undergraduate college or school at Cornell. It is the only school of agriculture in the
Ivy League. The undergraduate business program at CALS is one of only two such Ivy League programs accredited by the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
As part of Cornell's land-grant mission, the college jointly administers New York's
cooperative extension program with the
College of Human Ecology and it runs both the
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, in
Geneva, New York, and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, in addition to many other research facilities around the state.
For 2007-08, CALS total budget (excluding the Geneva Station) is $283 million, with $96 million coming from tuition and $52 million coming from state appropriations. The Geneva Station budget was an additional 25 million.
History
| Liberty Hyde Bailey |
1903-1913 |
| Beverly T. Galloway |
1914-1916 |
| Albert Russell Mann |
1917-1931 |
| Carl Edwin Ladd |
1931-1943 |
| William Irving Myers |
1943-1959 |
| Charles Edmund Palm |
1959-1972 |
| W. Keith Kennedy |
1972-1978 |
| David L. Call |
1978-1995 |
| Daryl B. Lund |
1995-2000 |
| Susan Armstrong Henry |
2000-Present |
Established in 1874 as the Department of Agriculture, the department became a college in 1888. In 1904, eminent
botanist and
horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, along with
New York State farmers, convinced the
New York Legislature to financially support the agriculture college at Cornell, a private
university that had been established in 1865 as New York's
land-grant institution. Thus, it became a
statutory college, and changed its name from the New York State College of Agriculture in 1904 to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1971.
The
World Food Prize has been awarded for the sixth time to a Cornellian. Dr.
Andrew Colin McClung, M.S. 1949, was awarded the World Food Prize for helping to transform a large area of Brazil into fertile land. His recommendations regarding key agricultural inputs made this transformation possible.
The Agriculture Quadrangle
The Agriculture Quadrangle (
Ag Quad) contains buildings which house many of the programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. It is a
quadrangle east of the
Arts Quad and west of the
College of Veterinary Medicine. The oldest building still standing on the quad is
Caldwell Hall, opened in 1913. The Plant Science Building opened in 1931 and Warren Hall, across from Plant Science, opened in the next year, The
art deco style Mann Library on the eastern end of the quad, connecting Warren Hall on the north to the Plant Sciences Building on the south, opened in 1952. Completed in 1990, Kennedy and Roberts Halls, featuring an archway that connects the two halls, extend along the western face of the quad, having replaced the original Roberts Hall (1906). The Computing and Communications Center stands between Roberts and Caldwell Halls.
Academics
The
undergraduate programs lead to the
Bachelor of Science in at least one of the 23 currently offered majors. The college also offers
graduate degrees in various field of study through the
Graduate School, including the
M.A.T.,
M.L.A.,
M.P.S.,
M.S., and
Ph.D.
The departments within the college are:
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Food Science
Horticulture
Information Science (with the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences)
International Agriculture and Rural Development
Landscape Architecture
Microbiology
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Natural Resources
Neurobiology and Behavior
Nutritional Sciences
Plant Biology
Plant Breeding and Genetics
Plant Pathology
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