Botany

Chair: Lucinda A. McDade
(909) 625-8767 Ext. 220
lucinda.mcdade@cgu.edu
www.cgu.edu/botany

Program Coordinator: Mary Rose “Ming” Posa
(909) 625-8767 Ext. 241
botany@cgu.edu

California Botanic Garden
1500 North College Avenue
Website: www.calbg.org

Faculty

Program

Botany at CGU is located at the California Botanic Garden and places primary emphasis on the systematics and evolution of higher plants. Subfields include the following:

Comparative Morphology
Floristics
Molecular Systematics
Monographic and Revisionary Studies
Phylogenetics
Plant Anatomy
Plant Geography
Population and Conservation Genetics
Reproductive Biology

Programs are research-intensive with a strong fieldwork component. Considerable interaction exists between students and faculty.

California Botanic Garden (formerly Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) is within close proximity to the CGU campus. Among the physical facilities for advanced study and research are a botanical library, a comprehensive herbarium with approximately 1.2 million specimens, wood and pollen slide collections, a fully equipped molecular laboratory with automated DNA sequencing, a scanning electron microscope (SEM), growth chambers, greenhouses, long-term seed storage facilities, experimental plots, extensive California native living plant collections, and well-equipped anatomy laboratories and computing facilities. The City of Claremont is geographically situated with easy access to deserts, mountains, and the ocean, and is thus conveniently located for diverse botanical field studies.

Degrees Offered

Botany, MS

Botany, PhD