The Biology Department of Andrews University is a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who are dedicated to academic excellence through teaching, research, and dialogue with the larger scientific community. It offers training leading to the Masters of Science degree and also participates with the School of Education in offering courses leading to the Masters of Arts in Teaching degree. Mathematics through Calculus is encouraged.
Graduate students apply for and receive financial aid from a number of sources.
These monies are awarded on a competitive basis. In the last three years more than 30 publications have resulted from research in student and faculty laboratories as well as from collaboration with other scientists in academia, industry and government. Paleobiology Phytogeography Biosystematics Neurobiology Animal Behavior Behavioral Ecology Behavioral Physiology Electron Microscopy Animal Physiology Plant Pathology Plant Physiology Immunology Tissue Culture Molecular Biology Molecular Genetics Biochemistry Bacteriology Nutrition Facilities include teaching and research laboratories, a zoological museum, a botanical herbarium, greenhouses, walk-in environmental rooms, electron microscope labs and a photographic darkroom. These are conveniently located in Price Hall, the hub of a modern science complex. Specialized laboratories are available for research in tissue culture, molecular biology, immunology, neurobiology and paleobiology.