Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Agricultural school of University of Massachusetts Amherst / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Stockbridge School of Agriculture offers Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, and graduate degrees as an academic unit of the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. It was founded as part of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst) in 1918.
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Stockbridge School of Agriculture | |
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College of Natural Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
Location | Amherst, Massachusetts |
Coordinates | 42.392252°N 72.529373°W / 42.392252; -72.529373 |
Motto | "Give Your Best To Dear Old Stockbridge. Body, heart, soul."[1] |
Established | 1870 Short Courses 1892 First Official Two-Year Courses[2] 1918 Separate Institution |
Named for | Levi Stockbridge |
Colors | Blue and Gold school, unofficial Maroon and White university |
Gender | Co-educational |
Administrator | Wesley R. Autio |
Dean | Tricia Serio |
Undergraduates | 311 |
Postgraduates | 36 |
Fellows | 31 |
Website | http://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/ |
The school's main facility and school symbol is Stockbridge Hall, named after Levi Stockbridge, a founder of Massachusetts Agricultural College and its first professor of agriculture; however, its faculty occupies various buildings on the University of Massachusetts campus, including Agricultural Engineering, Bowditch, Clark, Fernald, French, Stockbridge, and West Experiment Station. Research, education, and extension activities occur at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard Research & Education Center, the Hadley Farm (Stockbridge Stables), the Joseph Troll Turf Research Center, the UMass Vegetable & Agronomy Research Farm, and the CNS Greenhouses.