Research
Although a mission-oriented experiment station with a strong emphasis on applied research, the station also maintains a balance of basic research to serve as building blocks for future research applicable to New York agriculture. This has been one of the fundamental guidelines of the Geneva station and a prime reason why the station and its faculty and staff are recognized worldwide as having one of the most outstanding research programs to be found anywhere. Today, its 350 employees conduct research on 230 different projects. Of these employees, 56 are professors.
The station has also grown from its original house and barns located on 130 acres (0.5 km²) of land to a complex that today includes 20 major buildings plus greenhouses and other ancillary structures. Over 700 acres (2.8 km²) of land in Geneva are devoted to test plots, orchards, and vineyards. The station also has two outlying substations: the Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland, and the Cornell Vineyard Laboratory in Fredonia.
Read more about this topic: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Famous quotes containing the word research:
“After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.”
—Helene Deutsch (1884–1982)
“One of the most important findings to come out of our research is that being where you want to be is good for you. We found a very strong correlation between preferring the role you are in and well-being. The homemaker who is at home because she likes that “job,” because it meets her own desires and needs, tends to feel good about her life. The woman at work who wants to be there also rates high in well-being.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” [Was will das Weib?]”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)