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Committee Office, 146A Entomology
(909) 787-5621

Committee in Charge
Thomas S. Bellows, Ph.D. (Entomology)
Norman C. Ellstrand, Ph.D. (Botany and Plant Sciences)
Alan G. Fix, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Clay A. Sassaman, Ph.D. (Biology)

INTERDEPARTMENTAL PH.D. PROGRAM

The primary aim of the interdepartmental doctoral program in Population Biology is to provide persons uniquely trained in the five areas of population biology: population genetics, population ecology, microevolution, demography, and statistical population biology. The faculty members in the program are from six different departments: Anthropology, Biology, Entomology, Geography, Nematology, and Botany and Plant Sciences.

Although there is no foreign language requirement, a reading knowledge of a foreign language may be required or recommended by the guidance committee, if a significant body of literature pertinent to the student's field of specialization is written in that language.

Applicants to the program must supply Graduate Record Examination scores for the General Test (verbal, quantitative, analytical).

All students entering the program are required to take qualifying examinations no later than the end of the second year of study. Having passed the qualifying examinations, each candidate conducts experimental or theoretical research in population biology and submits a dissertation in accordance with the requirements of the Graduate Division, UCR. Each student in the program intending to pursue a teaching/research career must acquire proficiency in teaching. Unless students have previous college-level teaching experience, they are expected to participate for one year as a Teaching Assistant in courses that are basic to the curriculum of Population Biology.

The normative time to the Ph.D. degree is 14 quarters.

The program has its headquarters in the Department of Entomology. The Ph.D. program in Population Biology is not currently accepting new students. For further information write to Chair, Population Biology Program, c/o Department of Entomology, UCR.