Research Facilities
Research Facilities
Lexington, KY
The T.P. Cooper Building houses five classrooms; two computer rooms; meeting rooms; eight research labs; faculty, staff and graduate student offices; storage space; a student lounge; a walk-in cooler; a walk-in drier; a wood shop and a video studio. Our space in the Dimock Building includes two research labs, graduate student offices, storage space and the University’s herbarium collection. In Plant Sciences, the FHREC currently occupies one research lab and space for faculty and post-docs offices. The department also has access to space in the CAFE greenhouses located on UK’s South Farm.
Off-campus - Eastern Kentucky
The Wood Utilization Center is a 14,000 square foot facility containing an industrial hardwood furniture manufacturing laboratory, classrooms, computer laboratory and a 10,000 board foot hardwood lumber dry kiln.
Off-campus - Eastern Kentucky
Robinson Forest is a collection of seven tracts totaling 14,800 acres making it one of the largest research and educational forests in the eastern United States. The camp at Robinson Forest includes a classroom, a computer lab, kitchen/dining hall, lodging cabins, hydrology lab, staff office, storage and a workshop. Robinson Forest is a critical resource for conducting research, demonstration projects for Extension workshops, and teaching undergraduate students.
Forestry and Natural Resources Department
forestry.department@uky.edu
(859) 257-7596
Forestry and Natural Resources Extension
forestry.extension@uky.edu
(859) 257-7597
