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  • Avian Sciences
    1202B Meyer Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-2382
    Fax: (530) 754-4359
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Avian Sciences

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: May 31

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • Prerequisite coursework in Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, and Physiology.

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of the nutrition, physiology, reproduction, pathology, toxicology, immunology, food science, management, ecology, genetics, incubation, environmental physiology, and developmental biology of wild and domesticated birds. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research in the underlying principles of the biology of Aves derived from genetics, cell biology, physiology, behavior, medicine and environmental biology.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Avian Sciences website.

Contacts

Program Chair
John M Eadie Wildlife & Fisheries Biology (530) 754-9204
Academic Advisers
Chris C Calvert
(Adviser: General)
Animal Science 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-1269
John M Eadie
(Adviser: Admissions and Primary Contact)
Wildlife & Fisheries Biology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-9204
Kirk C Klasing
(Adviser: General)
Animal Science 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-1901
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Joyce Fernandez Avian Sciences & Animal Biology (530) 752-2382
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772