Welcome
 We
are pleased to present information about the Department’s research
and education programs as well as our facilities and surroundings.
The mission of the Department is to combine internationally recognized
research programs with a commitment to the very best in undergraduate
and graduate education. The department is impressively interdisciplinary
with faculty research spanning areas from the characterization of
global, ecosystem biology to the biophysics of energy production
and utilization. This allows us to tackle important questions in
biology from an environment that encourages discussion and collaboration
across different disciplines. From such strength we have built outstanding
research and educational programs in Ecology and Evolution, Computational
Biology, the Molecular Basis of Behavior, Microbial Biology, Cell
Biology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science that are available
for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral scientists.
Recognizing the revolution that is occurring in the Life Sciences,
particularly in applying genomic approaches to diverse and important
biological problems, The School of Arts and Sciences has selected
Biology as one of six departments critical to its development over
the next five years. This support has helped establish the Genomics Institute at the University, whose founding Director was Professor David Roos of our department, and resulted in the commitment to construct a new Life Sciences building that will house an interdisciplinary grouping of Biology, Genomics and Psychology faculty and students. These
are exciting times in the field of Biology and in our Department.
I encourage you to browse our web site – enjoy your browsing!
Richard M. Schultz
Patricia Williams Professor and Chair of Biology
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