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Department of Botany
UW BotanyWelcome to Botany
The Department of Botany promotes modern plant biology by engaging in forward-looking teaching and research, with strengths in evolution, systematics and ecology. The undergraduate major in Botany provides a rigorous foundation in plant science that can lead to careers in resource management or the private sector, or to advanced studies in graduate school. Graduate students in the Department of Botany are diverse, with interests spanning scales of organization from molecular to global. We share responsibility for the undergraduate major in Biology with the Zoology & Physiology department. Faculty expertise also contributes to interdisciplinary education in Earth System Science, Environment and Natural Resources, Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, the Program in Ecology, and Remote Sensing.
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Departmental News
The next Botany seminar will take place on February 10, 2012 and feature Professor Steve Miller, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. Dr. Miller will speak on "Investigations into the Pterospora + Rhizopogon symbiosis: emerging evidence on specificity and population decline." Botany Seminars are held in the Aven Nelson Building, room 212 at 3:30 PM. There is a reception in the Williams Conservatory prior to the seminar at 3 PM.
Prospective graduate students are encouraged to contact faculty they would be interested in working with. Information on the Botany Department's Graduate Program can be found here: http://www.uwyo.edu/botany/graduate-programs/index.html
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
These links will allow you to explore majors best suited to your interests
Affiliated Programs
Environment and Natural Resources
Molecular & Cellular Life Sciences
Highlights
Something is always blooming in the Williams Conservatory. A recent bloom is this white bat-flower (Tacca integrifolia), a spectacular bloom that is best when seen in person. The Family Taccaceae is within the Monocots-Liliales group and distributed in tropical regions from Malasia to Papuasia. Despite the name the Taccaceae are often pollinated by flies (source Mabberley 1987, The Plant Book).
Contact Information
University of WyomingDepartment of Botany, 3165
Office: Aven Nelson 114Mailing Address:
Department of Botany, 3165
1000 E. University Ave.
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071
Ph. 1-307-766-2380
FAX: 1-307-766-2851
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