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Department The current Department of Biological Sciences was formed from the merger of the Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Plant Biology, and Zoology & Physiology. This organizational change was designed to foster cross-cutting, interdisciplinary research initiatives by removing administrative and phylogenetic constraints and by encouraging interactions among our diverse faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students. It is our view that this approach is crucial for science in the 21st century and can yield significant rewards in the pace and quality of discovery. Such a strategy can bring powerful problem solving capabilities to bear on basic research questions that traditional, unidimensional approaches have been unsuccessful at solving. This change also promotes innovative educational opportunities for our students and helps reduce fragmentation of the biological sciences curriculum. Biological Sciences
is now the largest academic unit on the LSU campus based on
the number of tenure-track faculty (65). To maintain our traditional strengths
and foci, we have established three Divisions within our Department: Biochemistry
& Molecular Biology; Cellular, Developmental, & Integrative Biology;
and Systematics, Ecology, & Evolution. There are approximately 150 graduate
students in the department. Funding for these students comes from a combination
of departmental teaching assistantships, fellowships, and external research
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