We’ll set the stage for your success through hands-on opportunities. You’ll put the knowledge you gain into practice — and learn to communicate in compelling ways.

Our biology students expand their skills through internships, research with faculty, community engagement, study away, and more.

Allegheny’s Bousson Environmental Research Reserve spans 283 acres of woodlands, ponds, streams, wetlands, and native wildlife — presenting rich opportunities for student-faculty research.

Our students also study in the field at many other spots near campus, including:

• Allegheny National Forest
• Erie National Wildlife Refuge
• Presque Isle and Pymatuning State Parks
• Tamarack Lake
• Woodcock Creek Lake

Allegheny students also have a rich array of opportunities for laboratory-based research in molecular biology, microbiology, plant biology, and neurobiology. Allegheny students are very competitive for placement at highly selective NSF-sponsored summer research programs at research institutions like University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, and Stanford University.

Meadville Medical Center (MMC) is one of 12 hospitals across the country, and the only community hospital to do so, participating in this clinical trial aimed at the prevention of surgical site infections. Student research assistants are responsible for collecting data from patients and their environments from the time they enter the hospital from pre-operative exams, while they are in the operating room, and as they recover post-operatively.