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Welcome 

With a variety of master's and bachelor's degree programs in biology and biology education, and concentrations in aquatic biology and biotechnology, the Biology Department at Buffalo State prepares students to pursue exciting careers or graduate study.

For biology teachers and others interested in the advanced study of living organisms, Buffalo State offers diverse, comprehensive programs designed to foster in-depth knowledge as well as opportunities to conduct meaningful research, working with accomplished scholar-educators.

With hands-on teaching facilities like the Great Lakes Center, which maintains a field station on Lake Erie and a fleet of research vessels, a greenhouse, and an animal care facility, students work one-on-one with faculty and gain valuable real-world experience.

Department News (updated April 2009)

Congratulations to Biology Graduate Students!

Nini Dong and Shannon Rupprecht, both working in the lab of Dr. Chris Pennuto, garnered Best Oral Presentation awards at the recent meeting of the Great Lakes Research Consortium in Syracuse, NY. Miss Dong presented results of her work titled ‘Effects of experience and differences in learning between native and invasive crayfish in Lake Erie’ and Miss Rupprecht presented results of her research titled ‘Assessing swimming performance and fin morphometrics in the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)’.

The GLRC is a consortium of 27 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities with research interests in the lower Great Lakes. The consortium institutions have met annually to share research findings for the last 19 years.