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Biochemistry

Emphases: Biology, Chemistry, and Medical Sciences.  

Biochemists study life at the chemical, molecular, and cellular level. Click here to visit the Dept. website

Tracks: Bioinformatics and Genomics; Biology; Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology; Conservation Biology; Entomology; Environmental Toxicology; Evolution and Ecology; Medical Biology; Microbiology; and Plant Biology

Faculty and students in the Department of Biology are working in many areas of the life sciences, including animal behavior, behavioral endocrinology, bioinformatics, cell biology, and conservation biology. Click here to visit the Dept. website

The Department of Botany and Plant Sciences is unique in its integration of basic and applied plant sciences. It has particular strengths in plant cell biology, plant responses to environmental stresses, plant ecology, genetics, genomics, and evolution. Click here to visit the Dept. website

The Department of Entomology at UCR, ranked among the top five in the nation, studies insects at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and population levels. Click here to visit the Dept. website.

Neuroscience

The Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience takes multidisciplinary approaches to understanding basic cellular processes in tissues, including the nervous system, as well as more integrative levels of analysis, including behavior. Click here to visit the Dept. website

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Mathematical Sciences Majors

Mathematics

Options: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Physics, and Statistics. Mathematics is the study of the relationship between objects in the universe expressed numerically, and as such is the language of science. Click here to visit the Dept. website

Statistics

Options: Quantitative Management and Statistical Computing

The Department of Statistics is renowned for its emphases in statistical computing and quantitative management, and its Statistical Consulting Collaboratory. Click here to visit the Dept. website. Brochure coming soon!

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Physical Sciences Majors

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Chemistry

Options: Chemical Physics, Environmental Chemistry, and Pure Chemistry

Chemistry, the study of matter and its changes, is typically divided into analytical, environmental, inorganic, materials, organic, and physical. Click here to visit the Dept. website

Environmental Sciences

Options: Environmental Education, Environmental Toxicology, Natural Science, Social Science, Soil Science. For environmentally-related careers in business, industry, or government. Click here to visit the Dept. website

Geology

Options: General Geology, Geobiology, Global Climate Change, and Geophysics. Geology majors study the structure, composition, processes and history of the Earth. Click here to visit the Dept. website.

Students who choose the Geophysics major employ field, laboratory and computational methods to study the problems in Earth Science. Click here to visit the Dept. website.

For students interested in a secondary school science teaching career who intend to obtain a Teaching Credential in Science. Students take courses in Education that are required for state examinations and teacher credentialing in California. Click here to visit Dept website.

Students of Physics come to understand the physical principles of the universe by studying such topics as: astrophysics, astronomy, laser physics, electrodynamics, elementary particle physics, and condensed matter physics. Click here to visit the Dept. website . Brochure coming soon!

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