The Department of Biological Sciences at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) is accepting applications for graduate student admission (M.S. or Ph.D.) for Fall 2014. Biological Sciences is a multi-disciplinary department and includes expertise in ecology, evolution, and evolutionary development (in addition to molecular, neuro-, and cellular biology). Faculty research areas within the ecology and evolution core include: landscape and disturbance ecology in forested systems, population and community ecology in terrestrial and aquatic systems, aquatic toxicology, conservation genetics, molecular/genomic evolution and the origin of morphological diversity in plants and insects. All Ph.D. students within the department receive guaranteed support in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships or fellowships. Wayne State is an urban research university with tier 1 (RU/VH) Carnegie Foundation classification. For more information on the department, graduate program and admissions procedure, please see (http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/Biology) or contact Rose Priest (email: [email protected]).
