Natural Sciences

LSA's Natural Sciences division is home to 14 units, connecting science with creativity. Graduate students actively examine these links, learning how to connect their research with real-world applications.

LSA researchers in the natural sciences focus on understanding the physical world through observation and experimentation. The patience, creativity, and rigor of our scientists yields many discoveries, from tools for safer medicine to interdisciplinary data science that looks for better ways to mine the web.

The units in the Natural Sciences division in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts include:

  • Applied Physics
  • Astronomy
  • Biological Station
  • Chemistry
  • Complex Systems
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Mathematics
  • Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
  • Museum of Paleontology
  • Physics
  • Biophysics
  • Program in the Environment
  • Statistics

To learn more about the research being done in the Natural Sciences units in the College of LSA, visit our website.