Mentored teaching and research programs foster a strong educational environment in the Department of Biology for both undergraduate and graduate students. Our research is primarily conducted within three focus areas: Cell and Developmental Biology, Neurobiology and Neuromechanical Systems, or Evolution and Ecology. The Department is closely affiliated with other divisions such as the School of Medicine and the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as organizations in Greater Cleveland that provide additional opportunities and resources to our students and faculty.

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Join the Department! Biology Department Hiring Teaching Laboratory Coordinator

The Biology Department is seeking applicants for a newly created staff position, the Teaching Laboratory Support Coordinator. The primary responsibility of the Teaching Laboratory Support Coordinator will be to ensure the smooth running of the Biology Department’s new teaching laboratories. The new teaching laboratories include six wet lab classrooms,...

Ron Oldfield Talks About the Value of Persistence in new Daily Article

Biology Instructor Ron Oldfield discusses how his persistent pursuit of aquarium fish welfare led him down a path of 20 years of research and a paper published in Animal Science titled “Psychological and Social Wellbeing of Bony Fishes in Zoos and Aquariums”. “They looked at me like I was speaking another language,” Oldfield said....

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