The faculty of the Department of Biology are nationally recognized for their research programs and publications in prestigious journals. Faculty research is regularly supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, or similar state and national organizations. Research and teaching facilities are equipped with such state-of-the-art equipment as liquid scintillation and gamma counters, spectrophotometers, a digitized HPLC system and a single-side band light microscope. We also have access to the new Center for Advanced Scientfic Imaging (CASI). The CASI has a new FEI scanning and transmission electron microscope, an Olympus confocal microscope and Reichart ultramicrotome.

The Biology Department also manages a USDA certified* animal care facility, the 20,000 specimen William Darlington Herbarium, and 100 acre Robert B. Gordon Natural Area for Environmental Studies.

Research opportunities for graduate students are particularly strong in three areas: (1) Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology; (2) Physiology, Development, and Cell Biology; and (3) Molecular Genetics, Immunology, and Microbiology. Faculty in each of these programs have ongoing research projects and welcome serious student investigators into their laboratories. * NIH approved.

1. Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Dr. Sharon E. Bartholomew-Began
Dr. John T. Beneski
Dr. Giovanni Casotti
Dr. Winfield Fairchild
Dr. Frank E. Fish
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout III
Dr. Greg Turner

2. Physiology, Development, and Cell Biology
Dr. Judith J. Greenamyer
Dr. Maureen T. Knabb
Dr. Oné Pagan
Dr. Jack Waber

3. Molecular Genetics, Immunology, and Microbiology
Dr. Steven Broitman
Dr. Xin Fan
Dr. Erin Gestl
Dr. Gustave M. Mbuy
Dr. Leslie B. Slusher
Dr. Russell H. Vreeland