Welcome to the department of Biological Sciences at FAU. The Department is made up of 26 faculty, approximately 165 graduate students and 1800 Undergraduate majors. We are the largest undergraduate major at FAU and our courses serve both majors and non-majors in thousands of hours of instruction. The department offers a wide variety of programs for undergraduate and graduate student research that lead to various careers in the life sciences.The departmental research effort has major focal points in conservation biology,molecular biology and marine biology and the faculty spend approximately two million dollars per year on their research efforts. Our students are a major part of this