Department of Biology

Senior Thesis

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

The Senior Thesis project is the capstone experience of the majors in Biology. It provides you with the opportunity to pursue a research project of interest to you, in close collaboration with a faculty mentor or other scientist. In your thesis research, you will experience firsthand the application of the scientific method in a contemporary research setting and will gain a greater appreciation of how science is done.  

All undergraduate majors from the Department of Biology conduct an independent, 4-credit research project during the senior year. Motivated students are encouraged to begin such research as a tutorial during the junior year (required for the Neurobiology major).

Your thesis may take the form of a laboratory research project, or teaching biology, or a critcial analysis of the literature. 


The links that follow provide more detailed information.