The small number of students in this program encourages a strong feeling of unity. Most students of the Wood Science program are members of the student chapter of the Forest Products Society, which is one of the main professional organizations within the wood science profession. Students meet several times per quarter and typically organize a yearly wood-working project that is used to raise scholarship money. Faculty and students usually have an informal pizza dinner once a quarter to discuss student issues. The students in both the Forestry and Wood Science programs have an unusually high exposure to the faculty and staff outside of their courses.
Students are generally on a first-name basis with both the faculty and staff.
The SFWP usually has a welcome picnic in the Fall at the Otter River Camp, a facility used, in part, for social functions of the organizations discussed above. Several social functions that target undergraduates are held each year in the Forestry building. The staff generally organizes these gatherings and frequently helps undergraduates with a variety of problems. The School also hosts a seminar series focused on international resource management issues. A weakness is that our students do not interact extensively with students from other majors.