Prospective Graduate Students

Labs accepting graduate students in 2010-2011

PHD	MS	Faculty Taking New Grads
X	X	Dukes Biodiversity and biological invasions: What properties of ecosystems make them susceptible to invasion by non-native species?
X	X	Emery Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Evolution of the ecological niche, plant population biology, community ecology and evolutionary biology.
X	X	Fernádez-Juricic Evolution of visual systems in birds; anti-predator and foraging behaviors; human-wildlife interactions
X	X	Howard Genetically Modified Organisms: Invasion risks and The Trojan Gene Hypothesis.
X	X	Lucas Animal Communication: The "chick-a-dee" call conveys an extremely rich amount of information.
X	X	Minchella Host-Parasite Coevolution: How might a host modify the outcome of a parasitic infection?
X	X	Rabenold Sciences Ecosystem Stability and Diversity: Landscape ("beta") diversity is a longstanding conceptual goal in ecology.

Research Opportunities

Admission requirements

• Admission requirements:
• GRE required (minimum analytical score 3.5)
• TOEFL and TSE scores for international students
• Deadline for 2010-2011 application: 15 February (domestic applicants*), 31 January (international applicants)

*note that domestic applications are due by 31 January to be considered for the interview weekend at the end of February
How to apply

Graduation requirements

• General degree requirements
• EEB course requirements:
• MS course requirements
• PhD course requirements in EEB are the same as the general Departmental requirements
• Timeline for graduate study: MS | PhD
• 2009-2010 Biological Sciences graduate manuals: MS (updating)| PhD
• 2009-2010 PhD qualifier instructions and requirements (in development)

Courses

Biology Courses

Spring 2009 Biology Textbooks: Word PDF


Summer 2009 Biology Textbooks: Word PDF

Other resources

Funding opportunities:
Numerous funding opportunities are available to graduate students in the Department of Biological Science at Purdue University. Recent graduate students in the Ecology area have received fellowships and/or research funding from national and international sources, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program for Native American Graduate Education , the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF), Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Organization for Tropical Studies. In addition, Purdue University internal funding is available through the Andrews Environmental Fellowship and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. See Purdue’s Graduate Student Fellowship Manual and the Purdue Biological Sciences graduate student web page for listings of additional funding sources.

Purdue graduate student community & professional resources:

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) at Purdue
• Biological Sciences Graduate Student Web Page
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) at Purdue
• Native American Educational and Cultural Center
• Tecumseh Program