Biology
Through rigorous courses and hands-on research and fieldwork, learn how to study and understand more about the diversity of living things.
dAcademic Highlights: With its dedicated teachers who have been nominated for, and received, many teaching awards, the Department of Biology offers the biology undergraduate apprenticeships (BUA) program, an online application system that places students in world-class research labs. The department contributes to four interdisciplinary MS/PhD degree programs, and offers BioTAP and BIOS—residential programs developed to advance studies and develop communities within each program. In addition, HHMI Introductory Biology Labs, a new project in combination with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is redesigning introductory labs into inquiry-based labs.
The Biology department co-administers the Neuroscience major with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and participates in four Interdepartmental Graduate Programs (Neuroscience and Behavior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Organismic an Evolutionary Biology, and Plant Biology).
Research Areas: Topics include evolutionary biology, physiology, molecular biology, plant biology, neurobiology, and ecology.
Degrees: BS, MS, PhD
People:
- Tenure-track faculty: 34
- Lecturers: 14
- Research faculty: 2
- Postdoctoral fellows: 24
- Undergraduate maj