Part of UConn's College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, the SAES directs agriculture-related research while the university's Cooperative Extension Service engages in community education and outreach.
Publications included influential research bulletins such as New England Trees in Winter (1911) by Albert Francis Blakeslee and Chester D.
As required by law, the Station published a biennial report as well as scores of research bulletins over the course of its existence.
[5] In 1913, Edward Hopkins Jenkins was appointed to oversee both Connecticut stations—a move "intended to further insure harmony of purpose and to prevent duplication of effort."
[6] The General Assembly appropriated $70,000 to construct the Wilbur O. Atwater Laboratory, dedicated on the UConn campus on June 12, 1930.