Information on faculty research interests and on both undergraduate and graduate degree programs in biology can be obtained from either division. Environmental Biology Faculty in the environmental biology program have research, teaching, and outreach interests that span biological diversity from molecules to ecosystems. The group of nine full-time faculty focuses its work on components of the university's biological science program at the baccalaureate, masters and doctoral level.
Course work supports two of the three tracks in the interdisciplinary major in biology.
Faculty in environmemtal biology support approximately 30 graduate students in biological science and environmental science programs. Faculty also maintain collaborative research and outreach arrangements with other institutions, notably the Oregon Health Sciences University and several local agencies and institutions ranging from botanical gardens to governmental agencies. The central theme in research and teaching of the faculty in the organismal biology centers around aspects of evolutionary biology at the organismic level. The curriculum is organized around the organism, its systemic function and its interactions and relationships with other organisms and the physical environment. The organismic perspectives make interdigitating with the current and planned PhD programs a natural fit, the organismic approach is an obvious fit with ESR, while the systems physiology perspective could fit with either ESR or Biomolecular Sciences.