Education

Harvard University: Arts & Sciences: Biology, Organismic and Evolutionary

Category Art and Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Harvard University, Medicine, Postgraduate, USA, Undergraduate
Tags Arts, Biology, Evolutionary, Harvard University, Organismic, Sciences

Harvard University offers graduate instruction in several areas of biology. The members of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) share a common interest in understanding the structure, function, and variation of biological systems.

The research interests of the OEB faculty include the flow of energy and material through ecosystems, the development and structure of communities and populations, the diversity of plant, animal, and microbial groups, and the mechanisms that have permitted diversity to evolve. These studies span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and include many different levels of biological organization.

A variety of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental approaches are used in the laboratory and field studies carried out by members of OEB. We have representation in anatomy, behavior, biogeochemistry, development, functional morphology, physiology, paleontology, population genetics, molecular evolution, systematics, and the biology of global change.

The Harvard University Herbaria and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) house essential libraries, extensive natural history collections, and experimental laboratories that are utilized by faculty and students of the department. Other resources include the Concord Field Station of the MCZ , the Harvard Forest , and the Arnold Arboretum .

Completed applications should be received by December 8 in order to be considered for admission for the coming year.

Although Harvard University awards both the AM and the PhD degrees in biology, the department will recommend for admission only candidates for the PhD degree.

Applicants should have the equivalent of seven full (two-term) courses in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, or geology; at least a third must be intermediate-level courses. GRE General scores are required. GRE subject scores are recommended. Foreign students should have first class honor degrees, recent TOEFL scores of at least 550, or hold a degree from an institution at which English is the language