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" ... if the eye attempts to follow the flight of a gaudy butter-fly, it is arrested by some strange tree or fruit; if watching an insect, one forgets it in the stranger flower it is crawling over; if turning to admire the splendour of the scenery, the individual character of the foreground fixes the attention. The mind is a chaos of delight ...." ... Charles Darwin in 1832 on first experiencing the Brazilian rainforest |
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Fourteen faculty currently offer a Bachelor of Science (with a General Biology or Marine Biology Option) to approximately 350 undergraduate majors (one of the largest majors at UMass Dartmouth). We view undergraduate education as critical to developing an understanding and application of the patterns and processes of life to students' own professional and personal lives, and to fostering an enduring "chaos of delight" with the living world. Students in our Master of Science in Biology and Marine Biology programs enjoy strongly individualized guidance in areas allied to the research interests of the faculty. |
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The unrooted tree of the eukaryotes (above) is based on 16S-like ribomsomal RNA adapted generally from 1999 representations by Mitchell Sogin (Marine Biological Laboratory) and David Patterson (University of Melbourne). |
Last Updated On: 9/21/06
