Welcome to the
Biology Department

Biology at Boston University is a broadly-based department with faculty interested in biological problems at the molecular, organismal, and population levels. Thus we have a rare strength in addressing questions at all organizational levels of Biology and in ways that combine our knowledge in these areas.

The Department has five graduate program areas: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution; Physiology, Endocrinology and Reproduction; Neurobiology; Cell and Molecular Biology; and Marine Biology. Each program area has unique strengths and suggested curricula. The Department offers both master's and doctoral degrees in Biology that emphasize independent research on the part of the student, and a nonresearch master's degree. Many Biology faculty participate in interdepartmental programs that offer graduate degrees in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Bioinformatics.

Biology News

Dr. Ricahrd Primack will be speaking on climate change this Thursday evening, April 17. His lecture, What Would Thoreau Think? Global Warming at Walden Pond will begin at 7 PM and will be held in the SMG auditorium.

Dr. Les Kaufman's research on the fish population of Lake Victoria was featured in the BU Today article, Nightmare of Global Proportions.

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The undergraduate program leading to the B.A. degree in Biology combines both a breadth of education and training in Biology and the opportunity to concentrate in one of these areas: Cell and Molecular Biology; Physiology, Endocrinology and Reproduction; Marine Biology; Neurobiology; or Ecology, Behavior and Evolution.

The Biology Department is located at Boston University's Charles River Campus near many of the major historic and cultural attractions of the city.

You can reach the Biology Department at:

Biology Department
Boston University
5 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

(617)353-2432 - phone
(617)353-6340 - fax

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