The mission of the graduate program is to attract and train intelligent and highly motivated students to become highly proficient contributors to society throughout their careers. Basic knowledge of the sciences and their application to questions of the function of animals is imparted in formal courses offered both within the Department and in departments offering graduate level courses in the sciences, mathematics, and statistics.
Growth and versatility of students as scientists is fostered by having them work, at all phases of the scientific process, with faculty who are actively engaged in research. Every opportunity is given to students to hone their abilities to communicate effectively. All students serve as teaching assistants and are required to prepare and deliver seminars. All students prepare written proposals of research that they are to perform.
A sense of appropriate ethical behavior and the ability to make appropriate decisions regarding ethical matters is conveyed primarily by the example set by faculty. However, such training is also conveyed more explicitly in formal and informal meetings of faculty and students and in portions of formal courses offered by the Department.
The figure below shows the total number of domestic and foreign students in the Department since the year (A = Autumn Quarter) before the merger of the Animal, Dairy, and Poultry Science programs.
We have granted 70 Master of Science degrees an 36 Doctoral degrees in the last seven years. For Autumn 2001, we received over 40 applications to our graduate program, with admitting fewer than one-half.
| For more information contact: Ms. Debra Gallagher, Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Animal Sciences, 101 Plumb Hall, 2027 Coffey Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1094; phone (614) 292-7131, fax (614) 292-7116, e-mail: gallagher.7@osu.edu or Dr. Jefferey L. Firkins, Graduate Studies Committee Chair, Department of Animal Sciences, 223 Animal Sciences Building, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1094; phone (614) 688-3089, fax (614) 292-1515, e-mail: firkins.1@osu.edu. |