Do professors or graduate teaching assistants teach the biology courses offered by the department?
Faculty (Professors) teach all lectures courses offered by our department; typically the most senior research faculty teach the introductory level courses. The Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Teaching Award has been awarded annually for 43 years – seven times to biology faculty! Laboratory courses and help sessions are taught either by professors or graduate student teaching assistants. All of our teaching assistants are supervised as well as required to complete an intensive training course, taught by one of our professors, prior to teaching. Some of these grdauate students have gone one to win university teaching awards.
