The class meets with biology faculty, tours research labs, and offers seminars and social activities. CBS students can gain hands-on, practical experience in their areas of interest through internships, volunteer opportunities, research, and study abroad through the Professional Learning Opportunities Program. CBS offers a Mathematics and Science Tutorial Program to students from traditionally underrepresented groups who were high achievers in high school and who are majoring in science and engineering at the U. 95 percent of CBS graduates apply their biology training in graduate school, professional programs, or life science-related employment in areas such as forensic science, pollution control, biochemistry, environmental planning, and molecular biology. The CBS Peer Mentor Program pairs freshmen and transfer students with juniors and seniors to allow new students to get to know other CBS students and explore CBS courses, clubs, research opportunities, internships, majors, and careers with their peers. The Alumni Mentor Program pairs CBS students with alumni mentors working in biology-related fields of interest to their student partners.
Students meet with their mentors a minimum of once a month during the school year.
In response to student demand, CBS implemented a new undergraduate major in neuroscience in fall 1997. The MBS program, with 40 students this year, was designed to allow working professionals to earn their master's degrees while continuing their employment. Two user-friendly multimedia applications developed by General Biology staff UGather , a database manager, and UPresent , a presentation program are now available free on the General Biology Web site. Students, teachers, and the general public can use these applications to make presentations. CBS conducts summer workshops to teach K-12 teachers about plant biology and monarch butterflies, show them teaching activities and resources, and help them plan investigations for their students to conduct.