B I O L O G Y 
AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY
 

The faculty members of the department have expertise in diverse areas that include cell and molecular biology, organismal and evolutionary biology, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, plant and animal physiology, and animal behavior. The Department is housed in Olin Hall, which was completely renovated in 1989-1990, greatly expanding our teaching laboratories and providing separate research laboratories for each faculty member.

The department has been very successful in attracting generous outside funding for innovative curricular projects, as well as major equipment for teaching and research. In the past five years, this has included over 2 million dollars in research and teaching grants primarily from the National Science Foundation, the  Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Keck Foundation. Some of our curricular projects have gained national recognition, such as our collaborative laboratory projects between courses at the introductory and intermediate levels. Faculty members are active researchers and engage students in investigative laboratories or field projects as an integral part of their science education.

Biology is within Colgate's Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics.