The Department of Biology (home of the biology major and minor, the academic unit of the neuroscience major and minor and the microbiology minor) supports the success of more undergraduates than any other single department at the University of Kentucky.
Biology’s updated curriculum provides 21st century instruction that focuses lower division students’ training in bioinformatics, evolutionary thought and systems approaches to biology. Upper division courses incorporate a broad foundation of core courses with opportunities for specialization within many biological subfields.
At UK, a premium is placed on giving advanced students research experience. An updated biology curriculum prepares students for a wide array of careers including scientific research, medicine, allied health, conservation biology and pharmaceutical development. The department boasts an urban field station called the Ecological Research and Education Center that lends itself to experimental studies related to bird mating systems, bird song, circadian clocks, predator and prey relations, dispersal ecology and plant ecology.
A state-of-the=art Imaging Center allows faculty and students to conduct high impact cellular biology research, and some classes are held in the Imaging Center to train students to use cutting edge technology to advance the field.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Pete Mirabito
Email: pmmira00@uky.edu
Phone: +1 859-257-7642
Important Undergraduate News and Information
Are you on the Biology Majors Canvas page and the BIOMAJORS listserv? You should be receiving announcements from the Biology Majors Canvas page and messages from the listserv. If not, you are missing out on important information about new courses, opportunities, scholarships, and events!
To be added, send a request to biology@uky.edu with the following information:
- Your full name.
- Student ID without the nine,
- Linkblue username.