• CATALOG of all course offerings!
• The Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection--developed by Prof. Earl Fleck with a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; cited in an Oct. 2006 N.Y. Times article on widely-used educational sites.
• Human Anatomy and Physiology, Biol 120
• Marine Biology, Biol 278
• Cell Biology, Biol 309
• Physiology, Biol 310
• Bioethics Seminar, Biol 401/402
• Though not a Whitman course, this is a site for obtaining PRACTICE GRE EXAMS

What do you do with a biology degree after college? I trust that you have talked with the following:

• Parents
• Family Friends
• Student Friends
• Professors

Here are some other Web resources that may be of use.

• Interested in pursuing a career in human genetics after college?
• Here is a database of biotech jobs that provides many services necessary for finding work in the realm of science (resume postings, employer databases, etc.)
• American Medical Student Association: Premeds at University of Pennsylvania. Check out the American Medical Student Association, University of Pennsylvania Premedical Chapter . Here you can find more information about The American Medical Student Association.
• Have you considered Clinical Laboratory Science as a career path? This can be pursued (usually at low cost) in the fourth year of college, or in post-graduate work. Many industries and research facilities and hospitals need people in this area, and there is a shortage that is reaching a critical point. SEE these web sites:
  American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
  American Society of Clinical Pathologists
• If you are interested in dentistry check out the American Dental Association homepage.
• How about an alternative to getting your M.D. Check out Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) by visiting the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine or The School of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
• How about physical therapy? Also, check out the Physical Therapy WWW Page.
• Interested in being a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant? Check out these URLs.

Below we list some interesting Web sites you may wish to visit. If you go to the Home Pages for the various Biology web courses you will find many more resources.

• Whitman's widely used Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection--developed by Prof. Earl Fleck with a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• College Scholarships, Grad School and GRE Information
• PRACTICE GRE exams!
• REMPEL SLIDE COLLECTION
• Look at the World Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences for entrance into the world of biology on the Internet.
• Microbiology: An excellent site for almost all Microbiology topics can be found at Microbes.Info
  
• Evolution /Creation Controversy Frequently Asked Questions. In this FAQ you will find answers to many of the questions asked by creationists about evolutionary theory.
  Note that courses in our department are completely integrated with evolutionary theory and facts, since, as T. Dobzhansky put it so well, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The Genome Project is particularly illustrative of this--many details of the Human Genome announced in Feb. 2001 are incomprehensible without evolutionary understanding. The recent rise of the "Intelligent Design" or ID movement has not made an impact on biology primarily because its hypotheses cannot be tested and/or falsified, two features necessary for consideration in science. Moreover, some of the more scientific-sounding ID proposals such as "Irreducible Complexity" or IC make little sense. An IC system is said to be one that ceases to function if any single part is damaged. Thus it is proposed, such a system could not have evolved in gradual steps. This idea falls apart quite quickly when examined closely. First, evolution can indeed come up with IC systems (e.g., through loss of overlapping functions). Second, IC, if it were a result of "design", would be judged as incompetent, not intelligent. As any engineer knows, a designer will make any crucial system to be either as SIMPLE (not complex) as possible, so that failure is unlikely, or as REDUNDANT (not irreducible) as possible so that there are back-ups when critical parts fail. For example, think about how we'd regard an automobile designer who made a car with no spare tire, no hand brake, no multiple bolts and rivets to hold parts together. Finally, the systems presented by the ID movement as "IC"--the bacterial flagellum (of which there are 100s of different related types), mammalian blood-clotting, etc.--are not irreducible in any straightforward way and show clear signs of evolutionary history. For example, if the flagellum loses its so-called paddle, it still functions as a protein-secretory motor, which structural analysis indicates is the ancestral function of the motor.
• The Tree of Life Phylogeny Navigator. At his site you will find a series of pages showing the phylogeny or classification of a group of organisms. It is under construction at present but clearly shows what is possible in the future on the internet.
• Developmental Biology: Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour. Patterns of development in biological systems are often difficult to portray. This site provides some fine graphics allowing you to visualize developmental patterns.
• Birding in Walla Walla and Vicinity: Go to the local Blue Mountain Audubon page for lots of useful information. Also, Shirley Muse suggests the following locations for good birding in the Walla Walla valley.

Last update 5-Jun-2009