The graduate program in geological sciences at Brown is rated among the top programs in the world. Our faculty, nationally and internationally acknowledged leaders in their fields, engage in externally supported research in five primary areas: structure and dynamics of the solid Earth, the properties and processes of geological materials, Earth system history and global change, planetary geosciences, and environmental sciences.
Brown's Center for Environmental Studies has two goals: to help students understand emerging environmental problems and to strengthen their competence in addressing them. As environmental science progresses and our policy analyses become more powerful, environmental problems become increasingly global, complex, and interconnected.
Graduate study in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University leads to the Ph.D. degree. It is directed toward understanding biological systems at the individual, population, and community levels of organization utilizing both plant, animal, and microbial systems.
