Biology

Program | Courses

The Biology Graduate Program is currently inactive, and has been replaced by four interdepartmental programs: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Plant Biology. For graduate study in the Biology Department, applicants should contact one of those four programs. In rare instances, a student who cannot fit elsewhere might be considered for admission into "Biology." Questions should be addressed to the Biology Department.

Graduate Faculty

R. Thomas Zoeller, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology, B.S., Indiana, 1977; M.A., Oregon State, 1979; Ph.D., 1983.

Dennis G. Searcy, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.S., Oregon State, 1964; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 1968.

Peter Alpert, Associate Professor,  B.A., Oxford, England, 1974; M.A., Harvard, 1977; Ph.D., 1982.

Tobias I. Baskin, Associate Professor,  B.S., Yale, 1980; Ph.D., Stanford, 1986.

Eric L. Bittman,Professor, B.A., Pennsylvania, 1973; M.S., California at Berkeley, 1978; Ph.D., 1978.

Elizabeth A. Connor, Associate Professor, B.S., St. Lawrence, 1977; Ph.D., Vermont, 1982.

Margery Coombs, Associate Professor,  A.B., Oberlin College, 1967; M.A., Columbia, 1968; Ph.D., 1973.

Elizabeth Dumont, Assistant Professor, B.A., Indiana, 1985; M.A., New York at Stony Brook, 1989; Ph.D., 1993.

Cristina Cox Fernandes, Assistant Professor, B.S., Universidade Gama Filho, Brazil, 1982; M.S., Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazõnia and Fundacão Universidade do Amazonas, Brazil, 1989; Ph.D., Duke, 1995.

Paul J. Godfrey, Associate Professor,  B.S., Connecticut, 1962; Ph.D., Duke, 1969.

Abigail M. Jensen, Assistant Professor, B.A., California at San Diego, 1988; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 1992.

Rolf O. Karlstrom, Assistant Professor, B.S., Northern Arizona, 1985; Ph.D., Utah, 1993.

Edward J. Klekowski Jr., Professor,  B.S., North Carolina State, 1962; M.S., 1964; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1968.

Joesph G. Kunkel, Professor, A.B., Columbia, 1964; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1968.

Rodney K. Murphey, Professor, B.A., Minnesota, 1965; M.S., 1967; Ph.D., Oregon, 1970.

John R. Nambu, Associate Professor,  B.A., California at Santa Cruz, 1982; Ph.D., Stanford, 1987.

Sandra L. Petersen, Professor,  B.A., Rutgers, 1977; M.S., Oregon State, 1980; Ph.D., 1984.

Randall W. Phillis, Associate Professor, B.A., Miami (Ohio), 1981; Ph.D., Indiana, 1986.

Jeffrey Podos, Assistant Professor,  B.A., Franklin and Marshall, 1989; Ph.D., Duke, 1996.

Margaret Riley, Assistant Professor,  B.S., Michigan State, 1981; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1983; Ph.D., Harvard, 1989.

Lawrence M. Schwartz, Professor,  B.A., Northwestern, 1976; Ph.D., Washington, 1982.

Patricia Wadsworth, Associate Professor, B.S., St. Lawrence, 1977; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1983.

Elsbeth Walker, Associate Professor,  A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1984; Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1990.

James W. Walker, Professor, B.A., Texas, 1964; Ph.D., Harvard, 1970.

Christopher L. Woodcock, Gilbert L. Woodside Professor,  B.Sc., University College, London, 1963; Ph.D., 1966.

Gordon A. Wyse, Professor, A.B., Swarthmore, 1961; M.A., Michigan, 1963; Ph.D., 1967.

Faculty Emeriti

Margaret E.B. Bigelow, Professor Emerita  (1989).

Edward L. Davis, Professor Emeritus(1996).

Peter K. Hepler, Professor Emeritus  (2002).

Donald E. Kroodsma, Professor Emeritus (2004).

Stuart D. Ludlam, Professor Emeritus  (2001).

Arthur P. Mange, Professor Emeritus(1995).

John G. Moner, Professor Emeritus(1995).

David L. Mulcahy, Professor Emeritus  (2001).

John D. Palmer, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Harold Rauch,Professor Emeritus (1988).

John L. Roberts,Professor Emeritus (1990).

Grace Rollason, Professor Emerita.

H. Duncan Rollason, Jr.,Professor Emeritus.

Bernard Rubinstein, Professor Emeritus (2001).

Theodore D. Sargent, Professor Emeritus (1999).

Rudolf M. Schuster,Professor Emeritus (1984).

Seymour Shapiro,Professor Emeritus (1990).

Albert C. Smith,Professor Emeritus (1982).

Dana Snyder,Professor Emeritus (1985).

Otto L. Stein,Professor Emeritus (1990).

Arthur I. Stern, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Alistair M. Stuart, Professor Emeritus  (2003).

Barbara J. White,Assistant Professor Emeritus (1978).

Robert T. Wilce,Professor Emeritus (1990).