2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide
Department of Biological Sciences
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The Biological Sciences Department consists of over 30 research faculty, postdoctoral associates, and over 60 graduate students carrying out research in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Research in our Department is integrative and organized among three broad research themes–infectious disease, global change biology, and genetic and molecular interactions–with many research labs spanning more than one theme. Our Department has access to facilities that support a wide variety of research on campus, such as the E.W. Heier Teaching Greenhouse and Campus Nature Reserve, and we are affiliated with several Research Centers and Institutes. These include the Binghamton Biofilm Research Center, Center for Integrated Watershed Studies (CIWS), Institute of Biomedical Technology (IBT), and Institute for Evolutionary Studies (EVOS).
Distinguished Independent Work in Biology
The award of distinguished independent work in biology is granted to biology majors who distinguish themselves in biological research. Students in this program are required to do a yearlong research project under the guidance of a departmental faculty member. To be accepted into the program, a student must have junior standing, at least a 3.0 GPA overall and 3.3 GPA in biology courses, the consent of a faculty supervisor and the approval of the undergraduate committee. Students doing the research must have completed four credits of BIOL 497, or two credits of BIOL 497 and two credits of BIOL 498 before registering for BIOL 499, and should maintain their GPAs. The student’s thesis must be submitted for approval to a thesis committee consisting of the supervising professor and two other members, usually faculty. The satisfactory completion of the project and thesis earns the recognition at graduation of distinguished independent work in biology. Formal application for this program, including the composition of the thesis committee, must be completed by the registration period of the semester when the student plans to graduate.
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