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Mission The mission of the Department of Biological Science is to engage in graduate training and research in modern biology and to provide excellent undergraduate instruction. The biological sciences are a broad array of subdisciplines that embrace topics from the functional significance of molecular shapes to the responses of aquatic ecosystems to pollution. Our department's programs accommodate that range and bring the excitement of many areas of modern biology to students at many levels. Teaching Our faculty are seriously committed to undergraduate teaching. They include eight winners of University Teaching Awards (Balkwill, Elam, Elliott, Hofer, Outlaw, Quadagno, Travis, Williams) and one winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award (Hofer). In our thriving program of directed-individual-study modules, undergraduates work on their own research projects in faculty laboratories. The faculty have endowed their own academic scholarship for undergraduate biology majors, which is awarded to two students each academic year. Research The research accomplishments of the faculty are illustrated in many ways. The extensive contract and grant activity reflects their continuing success at acquiring and retaining ever-more-competitive research funding. The department includes two members of the National Academy of Sciences (Beidler, Caspar) and several Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; as well as internationally recognized leaders in a number of disciplines and several authors of "Citation Classics." The faculty have received extensive recognition within the university; four are Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professors (Beidler, Friedmann, Hofer, Travis), three are FSU Distinguished Research Professors (Freeman, Graziadei, James), and seven are Florida State University Developing Scholars (Balkwill, Bates, Ellington, Freeman, Meredith, Moerland, Travis). Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science, Tallahassee, FL, 32306 Phone: (850) 644-3700 Fax: (850) 644-9829 E-Mail: [email protected]  Return to the FSU Biology Home Page |
