Faculty serve as student advisers, offering close guidance regarding curricula and course of study. Students are encouraged to talk with various members of the department about their respective areas of interest. Faculty members are on the cutting edge of relevant information and technology, which allows them to guide students in appropriate directions.
Students often have the opportunity to assist professors in educational and research projects.
You may find yourself studying ways to improve commercial greenhouse flower production, for example, and preparing for national judging contests in flower evaluation. You'll become familiar with forest ecology and may study forest bottomlands. Or you will learn how landscape plants improve the quality of life and how attitudes and behavior influence land stewardship. You could identify various tree species, tree insects, and study silviculture, the art of cultivating a forest. Recently, NRES faculty have engineered thornless blackberries, sweeter sweet corn and scab-resistant apple varieties.