About the Department
Zoology Department Mission statement
The Department -- The Zoology Department has 25 faculty, about 180 undergraduate majors, and nearly 70 graduate students and post-docs. The departmental home is Cordley Hall, along with Botany & Plant Pathology, the Biology Program, and the Environmental Science Program. Physically linked to Cordley Hall by sky bridges are the Agricultural and Life Sciences Building and Nash Hall, which house most of the other life science departments on campus. These include Biochemistry and Biophysics, Horticulture, Microbiology, and Fisheries and Wildlife. Graduate study in the biological sciences is rounded out by an interdisciplinary Molecular and Cell Biology Program and by the Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology. Shared facilities within this three-building complex include an electron microscope service facility, the Central Services Laboratory (state-of-the-art molecular biology equipment and services, plus access to off-campus monoclonal antibody facilities), computer facility, several types of invertebrate and vertebrate breeding facilities, green houses, and separate research museums of entomology, botany, and vertebrates. Off campus teaching and research facilities include the Hatfield Marine Science Center on Yaquina Bay, a desert research field station at Malheur, and a forest ecosystem site in MacDonald Forest.
Cordley Hall is also home to the Oregon State Arthropod Collection, the largest repository of Pacific Northwest insects in the world.
So, just what is Zoology anyway? Find out about Zoologists and Zoos
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- For general university admission requirements and an on-line application contact OSU Admissions Office
- Information about Biology and Zoology courses can be found in the OSU General Catalog
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Who are the Zoology faculty and what areas of research are covered in the department?
- Planning to visit? If you don't find what you need here, contact the department directly and ask us.
- Campus map. Link to interactive map and directions to campus. (The Zoology office is in 3029 Cordley Hall.)
- Parking information for permits. Closest parking at 30th and Campus Way.
- OSU visitor's information (about the university, campus and the area), Gazette-Times on-line (news and classified), Corvallis Convention & Visitor's Bureau (services, entertainment, lodging, etc.)