Why Wooster?

› Majors work closely with professional biologists whose principal concern is the individual’s intellectual development. This is accomplished with a curriculum that emphasizes active learning in the classroom and investigative experiments in the laboratory. Small class sizes insure that our hands-on and active approach to science education is not compromised.

› Special cooperative degree programs exist in nursing with Case Western Reserve University; bioengineering with Case Western Reserve University, and Washington University (St. Louis); and forestry and environmental studies with Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

› Mateer Hall contains eight well-equipped laboratories, lecture halls, and a computer classroom, as well as a greenhouse, animal quarters, and faculty offices. Senior biology majors have individual laboratory space for research and study. The college also has an extensive science library just north of Mateer and online access to hundreds of life science journals.

› Equipment available for student use includes ultra and high-speed refrigerated centrifuges, spectrometers, marine aquaria, environment chambers, osmometer, microinjection equipment, fluorescence microscope, O2 analyzer, CO2 incubator, GIS facilities, and motion and sound analysis equipment and software. A complete molecular genetics laboratory is also available with a real time PCR machine and an image analysis workstation. In addition, the department maintains a close working relationship with Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, which provides access to electron and confocal microscopy, and DNA sequencing and genotyping services.

Life After Wooster

Wooster graduates with degrees in biology have chosen careers in a broad range of fields, from medicine, biological research, veterinary medicine, environmental law, exercise physiology, or cytotechnology, to art illustration, teaching, wildlife and fisheries management, and animal training for Sea World. Over half our graduates go on to continue their education at professional schools such as medical, veterinary, dental, or nursing schools, or in graduate programs at such universities as Yale, Michigan, UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, and Duke.