collageHarvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd, founded in 1955, is a private college of engineering and science. It is one of the Claremont Colleges, a group of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools with adjoining campuses and shared facilities and services. Its 18-acre campus is located in Claremont, California.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private, liberal arts college. Founded in 1821 as an educational institution for men, it began admitting women in 1975. Its 978-acre campus is located close to the center of Amherst, 55 miles west of Worcester.
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Baruch College offers Bachelor of Biological Sciences that is flexible and allows students to consult with a faculty adviser to design a program of study that will allow them to prepare for graduate studies or to help them prepare for a health-related profession. Classes are small, and outstanding students have the opportunity to assist faculty members with research, which can sometimes result in academic credit or count as an independent study course. Another option is for a student to design an ad hoc major in the natural sciences, such as a pre-professional program for those planning to enter medical school or an environmental studies program.
Vassar College
Vassar students interested in life sciences can pursue a BA in Biology or Biochemistry. Because the department values undergraduate research, throughout the year, students can approach faculty for paid research and lab assistantship positions. During the summer, more than a dozen Biology students are selected to participate in the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute, a 10-week paid internship that concludes with a research symposium. That symposium typically leads to fresh faculty-student research. To help cover travel costs for research presentations, students can apply for $500 in funding from the school’s Center for Collaborative Approaches to Science.
SUNY College at Oswego
The Department of Biological Sciences at SUNY Oswego offers majors in biology and zoology. The Bachelor of Arts in Biology or Zoology requires students to earn at least 62 major credits, while the Bachelor of Science in Biology requires at least 75 major credits and the B.S. in Zoology requires at least 77 major credits. Facilities available to students in the Department of Biological Sciences include the Rice Creek Field Station, which is equipped with labs, a lecture room, and 300 acres of fields, forests, ponds and streams students can use for research. The college also has a greenhouse, herbarium and molecular biology and biochemistry lab. Departmental scholarships include the Martin Torok Memorial Scholarship for a biology or zoology major.
Barnard College
Students majoring in biology at Barnard may choose to major in general biology, cell and molecular biology, physiology and organismal biology, or ecology and evolutionary biology. All majors are required to take three upper-level biology lab courses, or they may take the year-long guided research and seminar sequence which counts as two lab courses. Biology majors must complete a senior capstone experience, which can be either the one-semester senior seminar or a year-long senior thesis research and seminar. Facilities available to the Biology Department include the Arthur Ross Greenhouse research facility, Black Rock Forest experimental forestry station, Core Genetics facility, and a digital microscopy lab. The department offers undergraduate students jobs as teaching assistants, lab assistants and supplemental instruction leaders.
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