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Kalamazoo College: Department of Biology
 

Our mission

The mission of our department and curriculum is to educate students in the field of biology and within the context of a Kalamazoo College liberal arts education. Through our courses, research collaborations, and advising we help each of our students become an intrinsically motivated, self-directed learner who enjoys a biologist’s keen awareness of the natural world. Specifically, we foster development of the following attributes in our biology majors: 1) knowledge of the diversity of living organisms and levels – from molecules to ecosystems – at which those organisms can be studied; 2) understanding of how organisms are affected by their evolutionary and developmental trajectories and how these are influenced by environmental contingency; 3) ability to discover new biological knowledge and then communicate it effectively to others; and 4) curiosity about and empathy toward our shared environment.

Year of Darwin Art Competition

There is grandeur in this view of life…… from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. ~Charles Darwin

2009 will mark both the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species”.

To commemorate these dual anniversaries and to honor the seminal impact that Charles Darwin has had on the field of biology, the Department of Biology is hosting a Year of Darwin Art Competition.

Deadline for proposal entries is June 1, 2008. Click here for more details.


Department News & Events

  • Honors and promotion for Paul Sotherland
  • Vivien Pybus awarded tenure
  • Just For Grins: alumni return to celebrate Sotherland's 20th
  • Collaborative NSF grant will probe "mystery of mysteries"
Student Spotlight
  • 2007 Winifred Peakes Jones Prize recipients
  • K'07 Senior Awards in Biology
  • Armstrong presents poster at Sigma Xi Annual Meeting
Alumni News
  • Just For Grins: alumni return to celebrate Sotherland's 20th
  • Kirsten Wier (K '99) joins communications department of Sea Grant at UNH
  • David Campbell (K '71) publishes book on Amazonia diversity and culture
  • Theodora Ross (K '86) receives research award
  • Find out what your classmates are up to - and send us your news ...

 


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