Our Land and Facilities
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has two major teaching, research, and extension complexes: one on the UD Newark Campus and the other in Sussex County. In addition there are numerous other lands and facilities throughout the state that support the efforts of the College.
Townsend Hall
Dairy Farm
Fischer Greenhouse
Allen Biotechnology Lab
Botanic Gardens
Apiary
Newark Campus
The Newark campus consists of 320 acres of fields, forest, teaching facilities, laboratories, graze lands, and outbuildings-all within walking distance of the main UD campus.
Townsend Hall
Housing CANR administrative, departmental and faculty offices, laboratories and teaching rooms.
Worrilow Hall
Housing CANR teaching and research laboratories
UD Dairy
Providing faculty and students close proximity to a real-life, working dairy farm that serves as a model for environmental best management practices
Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory
A professionally-managed suite of growth chambers and glass house facilities serving the research and education community
Allen Biotechnology Laboratory
A world class research laboratory used to address basic and applied research in infectious diseases with emphasis on epidemiology, pathogenesis, vaccine development and evaluation
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
A partnership among government, academia and industry to help establish Delaware as a center of excellence in biotechnology and the life sciences.
University of Delaware Botanic Gardens
A series of 12 gardens on 15 acres used by faculty, students, Green Industry professionals, and the public, and serving a primary role in supporting the CANR programs in horticulture, plant science, entomology, and landscape design.
New Castle County Cooperative Extension
The hub for Cooperative Extension programming in New Castle County
Equine Teaching Facility
A new facility used for equine science courses, to provide continuing education opportunities for local and regional equine veterinarians, and to support Extension outreach efforts for Delaware's growing equine industry.
Ecology Woods
35 acres of forested lands used for research and teaching in the areas of ecology, entomology, and wildlife conservation
Natural Resource Areas
Including a 10-acre warm season prairie recently established to restore an old landfill, two wildflower meadows, and numerous wetlands and stream corridors.
Apiary
An area where beehives are kept for use in entomological research, teaching, and extension, and as a source of pollinators for local croplands.
Carvel Research and Education Center
Hiriam Lasher Laboratory
New Castle County
Middletown Farm
Middletown-Farmland and natural resource areas used for research and teaching purposes.
Kent County
Paradee CenterDover-The hub for Cooperative Extension programming for the University, business, government, and civic and corporate institutions throughout the county
Sussex County
Elbert N. and Ann V. Carvel Research and Education Center
Georgetown-The hub for Sussex County Cooperative Extension housing educators and agents who provide educational programming, 325 acres of farmland for agronomic research, and 35 acres of natural areas.
Hiriam Lasher Laboratory
Georgetown-The primary poultry diagnostic laboratory in the State, providing rapid and comprehensive diagnostic services to commercial poultry producers as well as to the owners of small non-commercial hobby and backyard flocks
