Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
The department is internationally recognized as a unique group of faculty, visiting researchers, students and educational programs. The faculty conduct research in numerous aspects of computer science including: Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Software, Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, and Network and Distributed Systems. Research is performed in an open and interdisciplinary culture: faculty and students frequently are part of multiple research groups, continuously fostering new collaborations, and are at the forefront of addressing core issues in computer science.

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Department offers a stimulating array of research and training opportunities with world-renowned researchers. The focus areas include three technology areas of biomedical photonics/optoelectronics, biomedical nano- and microscale systems/fabrication, and biomedical computation/modeling. Included in these opportunities are major campus resources at the Beckman Laser Institute (biophotonics), the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF, nano-fabrication and mircrofabrication), and the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics.

School of Biological Sciences

Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
The department focuses on molecular biology and genetics to investigate embryonic development, regeneration and fundamental cell biology. The research employs a variety of model organisms, including yeast, plants, hydra, flies, fish, frogs, salamanders and mice.  

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The department has several informal, interdisciplinary research groups. There is a great deal of interaction and collaboration within these groups, though projects often cross these boundaries as well. These groups include Evolutionary Genetics, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Global Biological Change, and Evolutionary and Comparative Physiology

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
The research interests of faculty in the Department include structure and synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins, regulation, virology, biochemical genetics, gene organization, nucleic acids and proteins, cell and developmental biology, molecular genetics, biomedical genetics and immunology.

School of Medicine

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
The department is a community of 14 faculty and approx. 60 senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and Ph.D. graduate students actively engaged in innovative research, discovery, and training in modern microbiology and molecular genetics. Research covers a wide range of topics with special emphasis on: bacterial gene expression and pathogenesis, viral gene expression and host interactions, trypanosome molecular biology, vector-borne malaria and dengue fever transmission, nuclear-cytoplasmic transport and intracellular signaling regulation of eukaryotic gene expression, mRNA splicing and processing, cancer genetics and tumor suppressors, ion channel expression, and function genomics and bioinformatics.

School of Physical Sciences

Department of Chemistry*
The department has an established reputation for excellence in education and research, in all areas of chemistry. It the second largest producer of chemistry majors in the U.S. and are currently ranked 18th by US News & World Report. In the graduate school, beyond the traditional fields of Analytical , Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry, the department participates in several interdisciplinary graduate training, programs including ones in Chemical & Materials Physics, Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry, and Chemical Biology.

Department of Mathematics
The department of Mathematics is committed to excellence in teaching and research in a wide variety of mathematical disciplines. Active fields of research include real analysis, complex analysis, algebra, functional analysis, geometry, topology, probability and statistics, ordinary and partial differential equations, mathematical logic, and computational and applied mathematics.In addition to formal courses and research, seminars are held frequently. 

Department of Physics and Astronomy*
The department has assembled a faculty of outstanding teachers and first-rate researchers, with strong programs not only in the core areas of particles, plasmas, condensed matter, and astronomy, but in such interdisciplinary fields as biological, chemical and medical physics. Founded in 1965, the Department is old enough to be well-established (as the late Professor Frederick Reines' 1995 Nobel Prize attests), but young enough to be forward-looking: it was among the first major physics departments in the country to incorporate modern computational methods into the regular curriculum.

* Pending approval by Graduate Council