Word: cellular
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...Faculty affirms the proposal next month, as observers say is almost certain, the department will divide into the departments of Cellular and Developmental Biology (CDB) and Comparative Biology...
Those new positions fall mostly in the Cellular and Developmental Biology (CDB) half of the department, and Biology professors say CDB's desire for autonomy in hiring--as well as in day-to-day operations--from the Organismal and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) half of the department will also spur Biology's planned division into two departments later this year...
...Faculty should dispose of the second pending issue--the reorganization of the Biology Department--even more quickly. For nearly a decade, the department has been divided into two subgroups--organismal and evolutionary biology (OEB) and cellular and developmental (CDB). The two groups have operated "pretty autonomously" in recent years, John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology who is supervising the division, says, adding that recent increases in the size of the department have made it too large to be run effectively as one big unit...
When Faculty members were not discussing hiring, they were busy splitting up, investigating, and creating departments. Early last fall, a special committee reviewing the Biology Department recommended dividing the department in two--organismic and evolutionary (OEB), and cellular and developmental (CDB). In reaching its conclusion, the review panel acknowledged that OEB and CDB already functioned effectively as separate departments, as many Biology professors were saying privately. The split will not become final until the Faculty votes on the proposal, which should happen next fall...
...long run the most significant advances may come from learning how the cardiovascular system works on a cellular and chemical level. Says Goodman...