Department News
- Drs. Diego Bernal and Ken Oliveira were recently awarded tenure by the UMass Board of Trustees and promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations on a job well done!
- We welcome two new tenure-track assistant professors this year, Dr. Robert Drew and Dr. Kathryn Kavanagh. Dr. Drew uses genomic and quantitative genetic approaches to investigate adaptations in captive fish populations. Dr. Kavanagh is a comparative vertebrate embryologist, with broad interests in ecological and evolutionary questions.
- We also welcome several new graduate students to the department. Diana Barrett, Andrea Carey, Mark Cotter, Andrea Moreira, Stephanie Pacheco, Katie Spendel, and Elsa Yeung are pursuing master's degrees in biology or marine biology. Jonathan Breton, Tobey Curtis, and William Eddy are pursuing doctoral degrees in the intercampus School for Marine Science. Alice Loth, Heather Marshall, and Katherine Rego are in the intercampus doctoral program in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. We wish all of them success in their programs of study.
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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. We also have doctoral students in intercampus programs in marine science and biomedical engineering/biotechnology
Read more information about our undergraduate programs and our graduate programs.
Learn about our expeditions to the Galapagos Islands.
