About Biology at JMU

The Biology Department at James Madison University currently serves over 700 undergraduate majors and 12 graduate students. It offers a wide variety of courses for biology and biotechnology majors, general education, and pre-health profession majors. A recently launched 4-semester core curriculum was developed using NSF funding. The M.S. graduate program has both research and teaching tracks.

The 34 fulltime faculty members are engaged in teaching and research in a broad range of subdisciplines and mentor over 150 undergraduate student researchers during the academic year and in the summers. Most faculty are supported in their research by external or internal funds, and post-doctoral fellows, both teaching and research emphasis, are a recent addition in the department. Both individual and shared research spaces are located near faculty offices, and most classes and labs are taught in Burruss Hall, pictured at right top, which is located in the main campus near the library and other university facilities.

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