Animal Sciences Facilities & Centers
The Right Places for the Right Education
Facilities & Centers
Animal & Equine Science
Animal Sciences Building
Preserving the history of the department, the building was fully renovated to encompass more classroom space, a harvest facility student gathering and study spaces, computer labs, conference rooms, and research labs. The construction was completed Fall 2014. Phase Two, the Gary and Kay Smith Global Food Innovation Center, which includes the Temple Grandin Animal Handling and Education Center is underway and will include an animal handling and education center, harvest facility, fabrication and food process research and culinary areas, auditorium classrooms, and more!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 350 W. Pitkin St. | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1171
Email Address: cas_ansci@colostate.edu | Phone Number: (970) 491-6672 | Fax: (970) 491-5326
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B.W. Pickett Equine Teaching & Research Center
The hub of the Equine Sciences Program at Colorado State is the Equine Teaching & Research Center. The ETRC is located west of the main campus, adjacent to the foothills. B.W. Pickett Arena, a $5.2 million facility, has a football field-sized indoor arena equipped with seating for 2,000 spectators, concession stands, ticket booths, faculty offices, a multimedia classroom, outdoor arena, round-pens, sheds and paddocks. Located at the base of the foothills, the Equine Center has access to miles of trails in nearby Lory State Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Roosevelt National Forest. Colorado State’s ETRC is available for public use when not required for teaching or research purposes. The facility can accommodate horse shows, rodeos, dressage competitions, polo matches, livestock shows, judging contests and seminars.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 735 S. Overland Trail | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1679
Phone Number: (970) 491-8373 | Fax: (970) 491-8419
Center for Meat Safety & Quality
The mission for Colorado State University’s Center for Meat Safety & Quality utilizes their research to target issues ranging from international to individual needs. CMSQ aims to address national and global food safety and quality issues, to assure that consumers worldwide have access to a dependable supply of safe, high quality and affordable food products, to educate and train undergraduate and graduate students to assume food safety positions in industry, and to provide outreach education to the public.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 350 W. Pitkin St. | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1171
Email Address: monica.thrasher@colostate.edu | Phone Number: (970) 491-1164 | Fax: (970) 491-5326
Gary & Kay Smith Global Food Innovation Center
The construction of the Gary & Kay Smith Global Food Innovation Center will open doors for students, faculty, and researchers and create a facility worthy of a top-ranking Meat Science program. Plans include a complete livestock and meat processing center, spanning the meat-animal harvesting process, fully equipped with a livestock arena, Temple Grandin-designed holding and harvesting areas, a research and development center and sensory analysis room, an auditorium lecture hall and meat demonstration classroom, and a retail meat and dairy store and café. As stated before The Gary & Kay Smith Global Food Innovation Center will be home to the Temple Grandin Animal Handling & Education Center. The Temple Grandin Animal Handling & Education Center will be housed within the Gary & Kay Smith Global Food Innovation Center. It will train students to understand animal behavior when handling animals, as well as provide the opportunity to work with the humane livestock-handling systems designed by Dr. Grandin. These are the systems that revolutionized the industry and that are used to handle nearly half of all cattle in North American meat-processing plants.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 350 W. Pitkin St. | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1171
Email Address: cas_ansci@colostate.edu | Phone Number: (970) 491-6672 | Fax: (970) 491-5326
Temple Grandin Equine Center
Situated at the CSU Foothills Campus immediately west of Fort Collins, the TGEC will include more than 40,000 square feet of classrooms, research, office, therapy, and riding areas. A large arena and multiple viewing areas will allow for participants and their families and caregivers, and students and researchers to observe progress and celebrate accomplishments.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: 735 S. Overland Trail | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1679
Email Address: cas_tgec@colostate.edu | Phone Number: (970) 491-8373 | Fax: (970) 491-8419