General Information


Delaware State University is a public-assisted 1890 land grant comprehensive institution. Its main campus is located in Dover, DE. The University has two satellite campuses located in the cities of Wilmington and Georgetown, DE. The University has four colleges and two schools, and offers graduate and undergraduates degrees in many fields. For more information about Delaware State University, please see http://www.desu.edu.

The College of Agriculture and Related Sciences is one of the six colleges and schools at Delaware State University. The College offers programs in agriculture, agri-business, agronomy, horticulture, pre-veterinary science, animal and poultry science, natural resources, wildlife and fisheries management, pre-forestry, environmental science, nutrition and dietetics, consumer studies, and clothing, textile and fashion merchandising. The College of Agriculture and Related Sciences is equally involved in basic and applied research as well as cooperative extension services. The College is proud of its highly trained faculty. Faculty research spans all facets of agriculture, natural resource management and environmental science, and extension work by the College reaches all rural communities in the state of Delaware.

The National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management is an initiative of the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences to bring agriculture and natural resource faculty and students together for exchange of ideas. The initiative is planned to become an annual event that will be held at the time of year when academic and scientific events calendar is less demanding. The conference will solicit basic and applied work for discussion among agriculture and natural resource communities, and later publish the manuscripts in special issue of a science journal as Proceedings of the National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published work will count as peer reviewed publication.

For more information on the conference please contact Dr. Ambrose O. Anoruo, Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, Delaware State University, 1200 N. DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901-2277. Phone: (302) 857-6400. E-mail:
aanoruo@desu.edu