These focal groups provide graduate courses within each area. We encourage you to visit these web sites, and to contact individual faculty with whom you share interests. The most important component of graduate education is the research experience. Our goal is to ensure that students will learn to perform cutting edge biological research. Within the first semester of entering the program, students choose a research advisor from our faculty.
Students then work closely with their advisors as they perform their thesis research.
The department provides funds that support graduate student research and allow students to attend scientific meetings to present their results. We also provide a weekly seminar program for faculty and graduate students. In this forum, speakers from both within and without the Wake Forest Biology community present their research results. One of our truly special features is the Graduate Tutorial Program. Each year three international leaders in biology visit us, usually for a week, for intensive tutoring of our graduate students.