Fall 2001

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SIDEBAR: THE COLLEGE OF FOOD & NATURAL RESOURCES

"INVESTING IN STUDENTS": Dean Cleve Willis with Avry Thompson '03. Photo by Ben Barnhart. AS OF LAST YEAR, CFNR HAD: 2,776 undergraduate majors 474 graduate students, and 153 faculty, in: consumer studies / entomology / environmental sciences / food science / natural resources conservation / hotel, restaurant, & travel administration / landscape architecture and regional planning / microbiology / plant and soil science / resource economics / sport studies / stockbridge school of agriculture "STUDENTS COME TO US READY to learn and to be challenged," says Cleve Willis, a member of the resource economics faculty since 1975 who succeeded Robert Helgesen as CFNR dean in 2000. "That learning happens in more places than the lecture hall. Our faculty invest in students from the moment they enter the university. The faculty are willing and eager to be available for advising and teaching in ways that go well beyond the classroom and the office; the students appreciate and typically take good advantage of those opportunities. "The college epitomizes the land-grant tradition that has served the country so well since the mid-19th century," says Willis. "Always, students are brought to the frontiers of their disciplines with a context. So an honors thesis student studying genetics may have a richer undergraduate experience having come to know Fred the boar." Visit the college's website at www.umass.edu/fnr .

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SIDEBAR: College of Food & Natural Resources

THE DEANS' LIST: Recent UMass faculty honors