The Department of Biology at Wake Forest is a diverse team of scientists and students investigating the processes of life at all levels. While many other research universities contain specialized and isolated departments based on biological sub-disciplines, we value the interdisciplinary atmosphere and advances that a full-spectrum department promotes. The full-time faculty currently stands at 22 professors, and the student body includes 35 Master’s and Ph.D. students and approximately 200 undergraduate Biology majors. Research is central to our mission, with almost all majors joining faculty and graduate students outside of class in our laboratories and field sites. Much of our research is supported by federal grants, permitting ambitious approaches that prepare graduate and undergraduate students for careers in academics, medicine, biotech, and other areas.
Perspectives in Biology Symposium 2012
by Department of Biology May 11, 2012
The Department of Biology is pleased to announce the roster of speakers for the 28th Annual Perspectives in Biology symposium on November 9 and 10, 2012. We look forward to seeing you there! Our Featured Speakers are Terry Hazen, Kiisa Nishikawa, and Robert Bridges. The PIB Symposium program brings three Read more »
Jumping Fish
by Jeff Muday October 10, 2011
Associate Professor of Biology Miriam Ashley-Ross is on a team of researchers who discovered several species of fish can flip in the air to move more than 10 times their body length in one leap from the ground. The study appears in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A. “The findings are Read more »
Child Abuse in Birds
by Department of Biology September 29, 2011
WFU News Service, August 2011 For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild. The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest University researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are Read more »
Support for entrepreneurship
by Department of Biology September 22, 2011 » Add the first comment.
Professor of Biology William E. Conner has been named the first David and Lelia Farr Professor of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. The chair was established by David (’77) and Lelia (’77) Farr of St. Louis, Mo., to recognize Conner and his work with the Wake Forest Program in Innovation, Creativity Read more »
What do you see in the Andes?
Famous painting is ‘reading’ assignment for first-year students More than 1,200 first-year students and their advisers visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Sunday as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book before they arrived on campus, new students instead studied a painting, Read more »