• The Department of Botany consists of 18 faculty members with about 45 graduate students pursuing MSc and PhD degrees.
  • The American Council on Education Rating of Graduate Program Quality ranks the department among the top five departments of botany in the country.
  • Graduate students work with faculty and staff on a range of projects in plant biology at all levels of the organization, from molecules, through cells and organs, to populations, communities, and lineages of organisms.
  • The major research areas include molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, structural plant biology, ecology, evolution, and systematics.