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Biology Department

Welcome to the Biology Department

Ecology Field Trip, Fall 2009: The Ecology class learns how inhabitants at Trapps Hamlet used the land to sustain themselves and how the land has changed since then.

02/01/2010 Trapps Mountain Hamlet was a subsistence community that existed in the Shawangunk Mountains during the 1800s and early 1900s. "Once home to the huckleberry-pickers and stone-cutters of the past century, the Trapps Mountain Hamlet housed as many as 40-50 families by the time of the Civil War. This vanished hamlet now... Read more

They DID IT! The Entomology class finished their collections --- just in time! (see our earlier post from 09/09/09)

12/08/2009 I think we will do this again ......... Read more

The Department of Biology is proud to announce that the newest member of our faculty will be joining the department in January.

11/24/2009 Dr. Richardson attended Cornell as an undergraduate and obtained a BS degree in “Operations Research and Industrial Engineering”. (Fun trivia: The Biology Department now has 10 full time members, and 50% of them have degrees from Cornell. Can you name them all????) Following this, he went on to obtain a PhD in “Stream... Read more

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Contact Information

Department of Biology
Coykendall Science Building, Room 106
SUNY New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561-2443

Phone: (845) 257-3770
Fax: (845) 257-3791