Facilities
The Department of Animal and Nutritional Sciences is primarily housed in Kendall Hall, a modern five-story animal research facility. In addition to faculty and administrative offices, this building houses the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab; an electron microscopy facility with both transmission and scanning electron microscopes; and nutrition, physiology, and cell culture labs, all of which provide opportunities for students interested in basic animal and nutritional sciences. Kendall Hall also houses a small, networked cluster of computers reserved exclusively for the department's undergraduate and graduate students. The university's collection of books and journals relating to the life sciences, as well as computerized databases for the medical and biological sciences, is also located on the first floor of Kendall Hall in the Biological Sciences Library.
The ANSC department also maintains numerous facilities both on campus and in the surrounding community. A light horse center offers an equine program with courses in management, equine diseases, equine discipline, physical performance, and horsemanship specializing in dressage and combined training.
The UNH Dairy Teaching and Research Center, located 1 mile from the center of campus, is the home of more than 200 dairy animals. Unique features include the ability to feed all animals individually and a gravity flow manure system. Research projects utilizing the facility are in the areas of nutrition, reproductive physiology, and dairy management.
An organic dairy farm will be established for research, education, and outreach, making UNH the nation’s first land-grant university to have an organic dairy farm.
Located six miles from campus, the miniature swine unit at the Burley-Demeritt Farm houses more than one hundred Yucatan miniature swine. The unit also contains two motorized treadmills for studies on nutrition and exercise. The swine are used for research on adipocyte metabolism, endothelial cell physiology, zinc transport, and atherosclerosis.
Extensive poultry facilities also permit research and work experience in poultry science. Located on campus, this facility houses twelve genetically specialized strains of chickens used in immunology research to define the involvement of the major histocompatibility complex in disease resistance.
The New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory provides professional expertise and laboratory facilities that allow prompt diagnosis of animal diseases of public health and economic importance to the state.
