Graduate Certificates in Biological Sciences
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Admission Criteria:
Prospective students will be required to complete a simplified application and provide their undergraduate transcript indicating that they hold a baccalaureate degree in a relevant natural science or engineering field. Applicants with degrees from institutions outside the USA are encouraged to have their credentials evaluated by one of the local evaluation companies. A minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 (4 point scale) is preferred. Close attention will be paid to grades in relevant science and engineering courses. There is no application fee and GREs are not
required.
Please note that a Graduate Certificate, while below a full Masters degree, is not a remedial graduate program. Students must demonstrate the ability to complete graduate level work to be accepted into a graduate certificate program. As such, if an applicant was denied acceptance into a graduate degree program due to academic deficiencies, then acceptance into the certificate program is unlikely.
Requirements for Completion of Certificate:
- Students must complete all certificate requirements (core and electives).
- The program must be completed within five years.
- Students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 with not more than one course with a grade below 聭B’ (note a B- is considered below a B).
- All other University requirements apply, including deadlines and fees.
Transferability:
Courses may not be applied to a certificate if already applied to another certificate and vice versa. However, credits earned towards a certificate may be applied to a Masters or Doctoral degree program in an appropriate discipline. Note that acceptance into a Graduate 51视频 Program is separate from acceptance into a Graduate Certificate Program.
Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
Biological Sciences and Chemical & Nuclear Engineering departments (Interdisciplinary)
Dr. Carl Lawton 978-934-3158
carl_lawton@uml.edu
The certificate is intended for students who hold a baccalaureate degree in science, engineering, health, or related disciplines. The courses emphasize biological and engineering principles, process concepts and the application of these to process design and improvement. Courses deliberately cross disciplinary bound-aries and emphasize teamwork in a multidisciplinary environment as well as a result-oriented, document-driven approach to efficient project completion.
Required Courses:
- 10.535 or 81.535 Principles of Cell and Microbe Cultivation (3 credits)
- 10.545 or 81.545 Isolation and Purification of Biotech Products (3 credits)
Plus Two Electives from the following:
- 10.555 or 81.555 Biopharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance (3 credits)
- 10.538 Advanced Separations in Biotechnology (3 credits)
- 10.586 Bioprocessing projects laboratory (3 credits)
- A technical elective with the approval of the Coordinator (3 credits)
Environmental Biotechnology
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering departments
(Interdisciplinary)
Dr. Juliette Rooney-Varga 978-934-4715
juliette_rooneyvarga@uml.edu
Environmental biotechnology refers to the application of biological technologies to monitor, understand, and remediate environmental problems. This certificate combines courses that explore the ecological impact of anthropogenic environmental change with courses that provide training in current biological technologies that can be brought to bear on environmental problems. Recent advances in biotechnology are providing new avenues for investigating biologically mediated environmental processes, many of which were inaccessible using traditional approaches. New biological technologies are being developed to mitigate environmental problems. These include the biological remediation of pollutants, biological treatment of wastewater and drinking water, source tracking of microbial pathogens, and mitigation of toxic algal blooms. As environmental resources are increasingly strained and new biological technologies with the potential to improve our environment become available, the demand for professionals with training in environmental biotechnology will continue to increase.
Required Courses (choose two):
81.504 Environmental Microbiology
81.523 Biology of Global Change
14.578 Biological Wastewater Treatment
Elective courses (choose six to eight credits):
84.580 Advanced Analytical Biochemistry
84.514 Advanced Analytical Chemistry
81.505/507 Bioinformatics (4 credits)
84.526 Chromatography
14.567 Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
14.568 Environmental Fate and Transport
14.595 Hazardous Waste Site Remediation
81.567 Recombinant DNA Techniques
81.569 Recombinant DNA Techniques Laboratory (2 credits)
Total: 12-14 credits
Molecular & Cellular Biotechnology
Biological Sciences and Chemical Engineering departments (Interdisciplinary)
Contact:
Dr. Michael Graves
978-934-2887
michael_graves@uml.edu
The Graduate Certificate in Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology provides students with training in this growing field. Over the years, an ever-increasing demand for manipulation of DNA and analysis in cultured cells in most aspects of funded research has created a growing need in the job market.
Certificate Program:
The Certificate consists of five courses, with four core courses and one related elective (14 credits total).
All students must hold a baccalaureate degree in a relevant natural science or
engineering field; at least one year of college-level biology, genetics and biochemistry also is required.
Required Courses: (4 courses, 11 credits)
- 81.567 Molecular Biology Lecture (3 credits)
- 81.569 Molecular Biology Lab (2 credits)
- 81.542 Cell Biology (3 credits) OR 81.460 Stem Cell Biology (3 credits)*
- Cell Culture (81.576; 3 credits) +
*
Students may take both Cell Biology and Stem cell Biology, in which case one will count towards the core and the other as the elective.+ Either Cell Biology or Stem Cell Biology can be used to satisfy the pre-requisite for Cell Culture.
Elective courses (students choose one 3 credit course from the following list):
- 81.519 Biochemistry I*
- 81.541 Topics in Cell Biology
- 81.542 Cell Biology (if not taken as core)
- 81.560 Stem Cell Biology (if not taken as core)
- 10.535 Cell & Microbe Cultivation
- 10.545 Isolation & Purification
*Biochemistry I is a pre-requisite for Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, but still may be used to satisfy the certificate requirements.