The Department of Biology offers graduate courses and research that lead to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the focal areas of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Forensic Biology (FB), Genetics & Genome Biology (GGB), or Neurobiology & Endocrinology (NE).

Our graduate programs are committed to:

• Providing excellent coursework and training opportunities
• Fostering critical and analytical thinking
• Encouraging creativity
• Instructing students on grantsmanship
• Teaching rigorous design, execution and analysis of experiments
• Honing students' proficiency at writing for publication
• Providing a learning atmosphere that is positive, friendly, fair, and importantly fun!