Physics 111 Spring '05 class picture
Studying over a cup of Spot Coffee in the Science Building snack bar.
Seminar class in the multimedia lab
Pharmaceutical Research in Dr. Marasco's Lab
Group study session in the department's reading and research room
Motivating a slacker
As a math or science major at D'Youville College,
your academic life will be characterized by small
classes, close interaction with faculty, an
intellectual environment that is both challenging
and supportative, and a student-friendly physical
environment.
Our faculty view your education as job #1, and they
will take the time and make the effort to
understand your goals and aspirations, and to help
you realize them.
Our Pre-professional Committee will prepare you for
graduate school, medical school, dental school
veterinary school, or any of the numerous other
post graduate opportunities that a person with a
science degree can aspire to. Our faculty will sit
down beside you and help you study for your MCAT's,
GRE's and DAT's.
Whether you are grabbing a cup of coffee in our
newly renovated snack bar (located a few steps from
where you take your classes), or researching a
scientific paper using our online collection of
journals in our reading and research room, you will
always find friends and teachers a short walk away,
willing to help or just talk.
After your elementary courses, you may decide you want to join one of several groups conducting research with a faculty member, or to use your work study grant to work in of our science labs. In either case, you will learn informally by doing, from the faculty and from your felloow students.
After your elementary courses, you may decide you want to join one of several groups conducting research with a faculty member, or to use your work study grant to work in of our science labs. In either case, you will learn informally by doing, from the faculty and from your felloow students.
But personal attention is also a state of mind; in
our case it infuses the reaction of faculty and
students. We create opportunities where we interact
with students in small groups: whether it is movie
night in the physics lab, a department trip to
Toronto, an excursion to Detroit to witness Roger
Clemens go for #300, a research seminar in the
biophysics group, a trip to a national scientific
conference, an outing to a local pond to study its
ecology, or just a Saturday morning get together in
a faculty office to go over some organic chemistry,
we all act under the beief that it is the small,
personal experiences that will stick, and that no
educational method can trump the one on one
interaction between a teacher and a student.
Small class size is not just a slogan for us. It is
both a guiding philosophy and a physical reality.
We believe in its efficacy, and we attune our
teaching and our curriculum to it. Everything from
the size of our lecture halls and classrooms, to
the teaching methods we use assumes and supports
the idea that "small is beautiful", at least in the
area of education. You have to try hard to get lost
in the crowd at D'Youville.