Graduate School Bulletin

Facilities of Anatomical Sciences Department

The department has exceptionally well-equipped research facilities. These include facilities for experimental functional morphology.  For students with a focus on paleontology, the department has a Vertebrate Fossil Preparation laboratory with contemporary equipment for preparation, molding and casting original fossil material. The department also has access to CT scanners and associated software for research purposes. The department also has extensive cast collections, and original specimens from several ongoing paleontological field projects.

Anatomical Sciences does not accept students whose goal is a master’s degree. In exceptional instances, a student already in the program may be awarded an M.S. degree upon completing an approved course of study, including a minimum of 30 graduate credit hours, and either passing a comprehensive examination, or submitting and defending a master’s thesis.