The George H. Cook Campus

The magnificent campus, with its green spaces, a pond (known fondly as "Passion Puddle"), and outstanding specimens of trees and plants, brings the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences' educational philosophy to life. Helyar Woods, the Rutgers Gardens, and the school research farm are set amid highly urbanized and industrialized central New Jersey. The area surrounding the campus mirrors the contrasts of the state: the most urban in the nation, yet 60 percent of its land is farm and forest.

Lipman, Bartlett, Martin, Thompson, Waller and Blake are buildings that preserve the memory of the famous scientists and scholars of the school's past. The Student Organic Farm, founded in 1993, provides hands-on instruction in sustainable gardening and practical experience in the operation of a community-supported agricultural enterprise, in addition to providing wholesome produce for the student-farmers, the shareholders, and local food banks and soup kitchens.

Newer facilities include Walter E. Foran Hall, a 154,000-square-foot complex housing the Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, and a state-of-the-art science library; the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; the Food Science Building; the Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences Building; the Cook Campus Center; and the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.

Source: The New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog, 2003-2005, with updates.

Campus Tours

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