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Teaching and Research
 Since its establishment in 1931, the College Arboretum has been a valuable and much used academic resource. With a wide diversity of natural and managed habitats a few steps away from the lecture and residence halls, generations of students and professors have used this land as a living laboratory to learn about the natural world.
At least 25 courses regularly use the Arboretum, based on the 2005 College Catalog. Student Individual Study projects, usually a single semester in length, commonly use the Arboretum as a field site for research, as do Honors and Master Thesis projects.
 The Arboretum supports a number of on-going, long-term ecological research projects, including the Bolleswood Natural Area vegetation surveys started in 1952, and the detailed breeding bird census begun in 1953. Both of these were initiated by William Niering and Richard Goodwin, former directors and botany professors.
The history of Arboretum teaching and research has been described through 1990 in Arboretum Bulletins No. 28 and No. 32
This bibliography lists all the publications by faculty, staff and students that report on work done in whole or in part in the Connecticut College Arboretum.
The links below are the Teaching and Research sections of recent Arboretum Annual Reports, which detail the classes, projects and publications for each year.
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