Biology offers courses that emphasize both the diversity and unity of life. This emphasis is coupled with an examination of the basic processes of biology, including the mechanisms of heredity, regulation, development and evolution. Our majors consider biology from points of reference that reflect life's different levels of organization, from biochemical and molecular, through cellular and organismic, to population and ecosystem levels.

Faculty News:

Winter/Spring 2012:  Andrea K. Kalis, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology, has received a DeLill Nasser travel award to attend a Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, in June 2012.

February 27, 2012: Raka Mitra, Assistant Professor of Biology, gave an invited research seminar for the Biology department students at Wartburg College titled, "The bacterial wilt disease of plants: bacterial effector proteins and plant defenses."

October 24, 2011: Deborah Gross (Associate Professor of Chemistry) and Debby Walser-Kuntz (Professor of Biology) co-authored a talk presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research National Meeting, entitled "Particulate Matter and Asthma Triggers in Homes: A Combined Civic Engagement and Research Project for Undergraduate Students." The talk focused on a joint ACE project in CHEM 100 (Fall 2010) and BIO 310 (Winter 2011) that is ongoing. Gross also presented a talk entitled "Characterization of Particle Emissions from Great Lakes Shipping and Other Sources" with undergraduate co-authors Alison Smyth ('12) and Samantha Thompson ('11), as well as collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Louis University.