New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University (CALS) is a statutory college of the State University 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 is 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.
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 College of Agriculture to the New York State College of Agriculture. The name of the college was finally changed to New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1971.
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 [1].
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The Agriculture Quadrangle
Image:CornellAgQuad.jpgMany of the programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are housed in buildings on the Ag Quad, a quadrangle that is 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.
Degrees
The undergraduate programs lead to the Bachelor of Science in at least one of the 23 currently offered majors. The college also offers the following graduate degrees in various field of study through the Graduate School:
Departments
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