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100 Years of Biology at Boston University: A Scrapbook
The Biology Department at Boston University traces its roots to 1904, when the trustees of the University decided that BU students should be able to take advanced science classes on campus, rather than at MIT, as had been the practice since the founding of the College of Liberal Arts in 1873. The trustees moved to add Biology to the College's mainly humanities departments, and they recruited Professor Arthur Weysse to leave MIT and become chair of the new department. By 1907, there were seven students adventurous enough to declare themselves Biology majors. (Read Professor Weysse's 1907 Bostonia article, "Biology in a Liberal Education.")
From those humble origins, the department -- now an integral part of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University -- has grown to become a world-class center for the life sciences.
Boston University’s Biology Department and its graduates can look back with pride over a century of accomplishment in what is arguably the most important academic discipline of the twentieth century. Human societies have pondered the meaning of life for millennia, but in the last 100 years, biologists have uncovered secrets of life and its processes that would have been unimaginable to those first students bold enough to turn to the newly founded Department of Biology as the focus of their academic experience.
We invite you to peruse our scrapbook, and we hope the familiar faces you see here will bring back some fond memories of your time as a BU Biology student.
Enter the department's scrapbook:
Department Chairs (1904-present)
Biology Faculty Scrapbook
Nostalgic photos of past and present faculty membersBiology Through the Years
Photos of department activitiesBU Biology in the Press
An eclectic collection of articles about the department from the popular press