Before the debate over corporate vs. conservation-sponsored environmental education is presented in “Teach the children well” (HCN, 3/26/01: Teach the children well), a more fundamental problem should ...

The Botany Department offers two undergraduate degrees in biology and botany that give students opportunities to work alongside expert faculty, access our research facilities, and gain hands-on field ...

Plant scientists are working on improving photosynthesis on different fronts, from finding crop varieties that need less water, to tweaking parts of the process in order to capture more carbon dioxide ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...

ACCORDING to the regulations of the Cambridge Local Examinations, 1883, junior students can alone take botany, while senior students must take elementary biology instead. What has been the result?

The pleasant green appearance of plants, caused by their reflectance of wavelengths in the 500–600 nm range, might give the impression that green light is of minor importance in biology. This view ...

We are pleased to welcome you to the Department of Biology, where our teaching and research span fields of study ranging from molecular to global biology. We offer B.A./ B.S. degrees in Biology, ...

Learn the basics of biology with a minor that complements a variety of degrees. Gain research and laboratory skills and knowledge in molecular biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, physiology, ...

THE advocates of an exclusively experimental course of study in the natural sciences are confronted with the difficulty of time limitations, so that in practice it becomes necessary to strike a ...