Syracuse Campus Buildings
The oldest building on campus is named after the College's founder and first dean.
What is Bray Hall?
The nickname of endearment for ESF Students.
What is a Stumpy?
In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt allocated funds towards the construction of this building -- the college's second.
What is Marshall Hall?
What is the Thousand Islands Biological Station?
The Environmental Biology Department has been working hard to revive this tree species.
What is the American Chestnut?
This building has the second largest lecture hall on campus.
What is Illick Hall?
Name any reason why students should not walk across the Quad.
- No desired paths!
- We like to keep the Quad pristine for our different on-campus activities
- In the past, students protested the use of chemicals on the Quad by keeping off the grass
- In the past, you could've been tackled!
The American lawyer that served on Syracuse University's Board of Trustees and heavily supported the establishment of the NYS College of Forestry at Syracuse University and the NYS Ranger School.
Who was Louis Marshall?
The total acreage of all SUNY ESF properties.
How much is 25,000 acres?
The Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts, which features ESF professor Chang Geun Yoo of Chem. Eng., works towards reducing our reliance on THIS material.
What is plastic?
Jahn Labs has none of these, just labs and offices.
What are classrooms or lecture halls?
The school's unofficial "colors" and an activity students can take part in during the school year.
What is tie dye?
A living descendant of Major Oak that lives by Bray Hall.
What is the Robin Hood Oak?
The town the Ranger School is located in.
Where is Wanakena?
The Center of Native Peoples and the Environment is focused on promoting TEK, otherwise known as this.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge?
The three buildings that are LEED Certified.
Gateway Center (Platinum), Marshall Hall (Gold, post-renovation), Centennial Hall (Gold).
Prior to Oakie, this totally real graduate of ESF was the school's mascot. His origins date back to 1940 but didn't obtain his degree until 1972.
Who was (is) Eustace B. Nifkin?
The year ESF-exclusive athletic teams were established, and also the year Oakie the Acorn was created.
When was 2010?
The largest of ESF's properties that contains the Adirondack Ecological Center, Adirondack Interpretive Center, and the Northern Forest Institute.
What is the Newcomb Campus or the Huntington Forest?
ERE's Tim Morin has discovered that the 'Seneca Drums' of Seneca Lake are likely the lake burping, therefore the result of THIS rising to the lake's surface.
What are underwater gases, potentially methane?
The buildings on campus that have solar panels
Baker, Gateway, Moon, and Walters
A 52 year old annual event hosted by the Landscape Architecture department that features students experiences abroad.
What is the Festival of Places?
The program which 2 of the 3 first ever female ESF graduates received a degree in, back in 1920.
What is Paper Engineering?
The property that is home to the Willow Project and where the ESF Mighty Oak Soccer teams and Timbersports practice.
What is the Tully Field Station?
EFB's Dr. Kyle Artelle and his collaborators in Canada recorded wolves doing this human-like activity.
What is using tools?
(Wolves were using ropes to pull up crab bait traps to get food for themselves).