The Department:

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is in the College of Science.

The department provides general and professional education for those intending to pursue graduate study or for those planning a career in fields where training in basic or applied organismic, evolutionary, and environmental biology is necessary or desirable. Courses are offered in population, community, and physiological ecology; behavior; population theory; biogeography; natural history; genetics; systematics; morphology; and evolution. In addition to excellent instructional facilities on campus, the department uses the Marine Biology Station at Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico; the Southwestern Research Station at Portal, Arizona; the Boyce-Thompson Arboretum at Superior, Arizona; and the Research Ranch at Elgin, Arizona. It also curates excellent regional collections of plants and animals.

The department participates in the honors program.

Graduate Programs:

Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy students may choose to emphasize course work in botany, conservation biology, physiology, zoology, invertebrate zoology, marine biology, and preprofessional areas.

General Biology MS for Teachers:

Middle and high school teachers who desire advanced, specialized training in the biological sciences to enhance their classroom teaching methods may do so through this General Biology MS program.

For more information contact the department office listed above.