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Senior Faculty members in the department have been meeting since September in separate committees of cellular and developmental biology and of orgasmic and evolutionary biology (OEB). Previously the senior Faculty met together in one committee.
Each committee is actively recruiting new Faculty and planning new courses in its field, according to Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and a member of the OEB group.
Cellular and developmental biology is concerned with the structure of cells and their organization into tissues and organs. Organismic and evolutionary biology starts at that point and studies the development of entire organisms and populations, including animal behavior and evolution.
Members of the OEB committal hope to increase the importance of their fields in the department. John G. Torrey, professor of Botany and a member of the OEB group, said that Faculty appointments for the past ten years have been heavily concentrated in the fields of developmental and molecular biology...
With new specific responsibility for their area, OEB staff members are expected to offer more undergraduate courses. R. P. Levine, professor of Biology and chairman of the department, said that the undergraduate curriculum is currently weak in OEB areas.