Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment
| Motto | Ut Prosim (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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That I May Serve |
| Type | Public University |
| Established | 1992 |
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Parent institution
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Virginia Tech |
| Dean | Paul M. Winistorfer |
| Students | 1,023 |
| Undergraduates | 758 |
| Postgraduates | 265 |
| Location | Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Colors | Chicago maroon and Burnt orange |
| Website | www |
The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech contains academic programs in forestry, fisheries, wildlife sciences, geography, and wood science. The college contains four departments as well as a graduate program in the National Capital Region and a leadership institute for undergraduates.
The College of Natural Resources and Environment conducts most of its research in facilities located in Blacksburg or through the National Science Foundation's Industry & University Cooperative Research Program (I/UCRC). In 2014-15, the college consisted of 1,023 students. The current dean of the college, Paul M. Winistorfer, was appointed in 2009.
Although the college was not officially established until 1992, its roots were present in Virginia Tech’s history as early as 1925 when the first professor of forestry, Wilbur O’Byrne, was hired. By the early 1930s, students were able to study field horticulture, landscape design, and the chemical properties of sprays used to protect orchards. In 1938, the first bachelor of science degrees in conservation and forestry were offered in the Department of Biology.
By 1969, the Department of Forestry and Wildlife had become the fastest growing department on campus, having grown from 66 undergraduates and five graduate students, to 346 undergraduates and 52 graduate students. That same year, the department was officially made a unit of the College of Agriculture, and by 1974, it split into the Department of Forestry and Forest Products and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences. By 1975, a School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources was established. This school became an official university college in 1992, named the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources. In 2000, the college changed its name to the College of Natural Resources before settling on its current title in 2010.
The College of Natural Resources and Environment contains four departments and executive and traditional master’s programs in the National Capital Region. As of 2010-11, the college had 737 students taking classes on the Blacksburg campus, thereby making it the smallest at Virginia Tech in terms of enrollment.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation offers a bachelor of science in fisheries science and a bachelor of science in wildlife science to undergraduate students. It also offers an M.S. and Ph.D. in both fisheries and wildlife sciences to graduate students.
Undergraduates can earn a B.A. in geography. The department offers two options for undergraduate geography majors: culture, regions, and international development or geospatial and environmental analysis. The department has been approved to add an undergraduate B.S. degree in meteorology in spring 2012. This will be the only meteorology program offered in Virginia. Graduate students may earn an M.S. in geography. The Department of Geography also participates in the college’s doctoral program in geospatial and environmental analysis.
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