HARVARD/OEB
type: Concept
in scheme: providers
definition: The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University seeks: -To provide Harvard undergraduates with an understanding of organisms and ecosystems sufficient to insure informed participation in society; -In collaboration with our sister department, to provide biology concentrators a foundation of biological knowledge that prepares them for further study and active participation in biological research, medicine, environmental studies, and other professions; -Through research, to develop new knowledge in four key areas of organismic and evolutionary biology: -Biological Diversity and the History of Life -the Integrated Biology of Organisms -the Integration of Molecular and Organismic Evolution -the Biological Component of Biogeochemistry; and -To train a new generation of biologists who will expand and improve this vision of science. Website: "http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/" [Summary provided by Harvard University.]

ACADEMIC
type: Concept