The United States is currently experiencing a rapid increase in the number of high-technology forensics laboratories whose mission it is to analyze and interpret a wide variety of evidence and data in many forms, in support of investigations and prosecutions involving both criminal and terrorist activities. This demand is especially strong in the Northern Virginia region, where several new FBI and police forensics labs are being built or expanded. The College of Science is responding to the substantial local and regional demand for graduates trained in the technical and legal aspects of forensic science by introducing a new undergraduate and graduate programs in Forensics.

Need an elective or another lab course for Spring 2011? Try BIOL 344: Plant Diversity and Evolution
Course prerequisites waived for Spring 2011!

Mason has internationally renowned climate dynamics faculty, a Climate Dynamics Ph.D. Program that has graduates at international centers of excellence.   Now undergraduates have the opportunity to study atmospheric and ocean science through new concentrations and minors.

This spring, go back in time with GEOL 334 Vertebrate Paleontology, a new course offered in the College of Science as part of the school’s new minor in Paleontology.

As long as there have been physicists, there have been physicists attacking the ultimate questions of ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’. In the past few decades, the boundaries between classical biological and physical studies have blurred, and great strides have been made in applying tools from physics to understanding the machinery of living organisms from the sub-cellular level on up. 

Our newest doctoral program in the College is the Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry that provides students with the opportunity to work on exciting research projects in multiple areas of Chemistry and Biochemistry, including projects in water quality and purification, drug discovery and delivery, biofuels, and the chemistry of astrophysical ices. The program consists of both coursework and an independent research project under the guidance of a faculty mentor and has been designed to accommodate both full-time and part-time students.