Department of Biology and Biotechnology
Expand Your Adventure as a Scientist
Strengthen your interest in biology and biotechnology through the degree programs offered in the Biology and Biotechnology Department at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Many of our degree programs offer intensive specializations, allowing you to shape the program to your career aspirations. There are also various options for minors to complement your major, allowing you to enhance the value of your degree.
Enjoy an Enhanced Educational Experience
You'll find the degree programs in the Biology and Biotechnology Department are so much more than just lectures and labs. Your professors are acclaimed, published scientists who are committed to your future success in industry, research, consulting or education, as well as graduate schools. The combination of teaching, research and hands-on experience will strengthen your ability to solve problems, work both independently and collaboratively, and think and analyze critically. Small class sizes ensure plenty of one-on-one time with your professors.
Programs and Degrees
Biological Sciences
Minors
Faculty
Martha Ariza
Lecturer in Biotechnology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3763
Email: Ariza@UHCL.edu
Office: B3321
Scott Buckel
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3793
Email: Buckel@UHCL.edu
Office: B3531
Luke Choate
Lecturer of Biological Sciences,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3748
Email: choatel@uhcl.edu
Office: B3525
Leonard "Leo" Giblin
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3740
Email: giblinl@uhcl.edu
Office: B3531
Stephen Michael Gruber
Lecturer of Biology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3779
Email: gruber@uhcl.edu
Office: B3531
Michael LaMontagne
Associate Professor of Microbiology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3754
Email: LaMontagne@UHCL.edu
Office: B3121-4
Richard L. Puzdrowski Jr.
Associate Professor of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Science; Cooperative
Degree Program Advisor; and Department Chair of Biology and Biotechnology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3750
Email: puzdrowski@uhcl.edu
Office: B3525- 4
Bazlur Rashid
Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283 3756
Email: rashid@uhcl.edu
Office: 3525-11
Larry Rohde
Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3743
Email: rohde@uhcl.edu
Office: B3525-6
Lory Z. Santiago-Vázquez
Program Director of Biotechnology, Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3776
Email: santiago@uhcl.edu
Office: B3525-7
Brian Stephens
Program Director of Biology and Associate Professor of Biotechnology and Biology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3798
Email: Stephensb@UHCL.edu
Office: B3525
Patricia Trubl
Lecturer of Biology,
Science and Engineering
Contact number: 281-283-3762
Email: Trubl@UHCL.edu
Office: B3321
Contact
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Office of Admissions
Phone: 281-283-2500
Fax: 281-283-2522
Email: admissions@uhcl.edu
SSCB 1.101
2700 Bay Area Blvd, Box 13
Houston, TX 77058-1002
Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday & Wednesday: Virtual and in-person appointments available until 6 p.m.
