Department News
- The Biology Department recently lost a much-loved member. Graduate student Lyndsay Field passed away in August shortly after giving an oral presentation of her research at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Montreal. Lyndsay excelled as a teaching assistant in our Anatomy and Physiology laboratories and was looking forward to a career teaching high school biology.
- In September 2007 we welcomed two new faculty members, Dr. Erin Bromage and Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño. Dr. Bromage is an immunologist who hails from Australia. His most recent appointment was as a research associate at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. Dr. Paz-y-Miño specializes in animal cognition and uses birds as animal models. He comes to us from Worcester State College, where he won an award for innovative teaching.
- During the 2007-2008 academic year, three graduate students in the M.S. in Marine Biology program successfully completed all graduation requirements. They are Srdan Randic, Jennifer Rasch, and Heather Spence. We wish them well.
- In March 2008 Dr. Nancy O'Connor won the Women’s Resource Center’s Outstanding Woman Faculty award.
- Several students are participating in internships this summer. They include Lauren Watka (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Hillary Danz (Harvard University), Jill Cox at Children's Hospital Boston, Rebecca Stephens (University of Virginia), and Kristen Maloof (Massachusetts General Hospital).
About the Department
Welcome to the Biology department at UMass Dartmouth! As the world around us continues to increase in the complexity of interrelationships between humans and nature, and as we are faced with new critical problems to solve in health care and the environment, having a scientifically educated populace becomes increasingly important. An understanding of biology, the study of life, is not only necessary for addressing many societal problems, but also satisfies our intrinsic human interest in learning more about the world around us.
We offer programs of study leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Biology or Marine Biology, and the Master of Science degree in Biology or Marine Biology.
Read more information about our undergraduate programs.
Read more information about our graduate programs.
